Yojiro Terada

Yojiro Terada (寺田陽次郎, Terada Yōjirō, born 26 March 1947) is a Japanese former racing driver from Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture.

Yojiro Terada

Nationality	Japanese
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	1974, 1981–2008
Teams	Mazda Automotive, Mazdaspeed, Lotus Sport, Team Artnature, T.D.R., Courage Compétition, Autoexe, Welter Racing, Binnie Motorsports, T2M Motorsport, Terramos
Best finish	7th (1995)
Class wins	4 (1983, 1988, 1990, 1996)

Yojiro Terada driving the T2M Motorsport Dome-Mader during the 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Racing career

He began his racing career in a Honda S600^[1] in 1969, before he was taken on as Mazda's factory driver, a position he held through the 1990s including participating in the World Sportscar Championship and All Japan Sports Prototype Championship.^{[citation needed]}

He also took class wins at the 24 Hours of Daytona on two occasions, including in the Mazda RX-7's debut race in 1979, scoring a GTU class win at fifth place overall.^[2] The other occasion was a fourth place overall finish and a GTO class win in 1982.^[3]

He is known for holding the record for the second most participations in the 24 Hours of Le Mans without an overall win (behind Bob Wollek), having run on 29 occasions (28 of which were consecutive) since 1974. He is also third behind Henri Pescarolo and Bob Wollek for the drivers with the most participations.^[4] He scored class victories at the event in 1983, 1988, 1990 and 1996, while his best overall finish was seventh in 1995.

Business interests

When he is not racing, he runs the Tokyo-based AutoExe (オートエクゼ) tuning business, specialising in tuning parts and accessories for Mazda.^[5][6] and instructs on driving at NATS (Nihon Automobile High Technical School) ^[7]

Family

He is the father of voice actress Haruhi Nanao.^{[citation needed]}

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1974	Mazda Automotive	Yasuhiro Okamoto Harukuni Takahashi	Sigma MC74-Mazda	S 3.0	155	NC	NC
1981	Mazdaspeed	Hiroshi Fushida Win Percy	Mazda RX-7	IMSA GTO	25	DNF	DNF
1982	Mazdaspeed	Takashi Yorino Allan Moffat	Mazda RX-7	IMSA GTX	282	14th	6th
1983	Mazdaspeed	Takashi Yorino Yoshimi Katayama	Mazda 717C	C Jr.	302	12th	1st
1984	Mazdaspeed	Pierre Dieudonné Takashi Yorino	Mazda 727C	C2	261	20th	6th
1985	Mazdaspeed	Yoshimi Katayama Takashi Yorino	Mazda 737C	C2	264	24th	6th
1986	Mazdaspeed	Yoshimi Katayama Takashi Yorino	Mazda 757	GTP	59	DNF	DNF
1987	Mazdaspeed	Yoshimi Katayama Takashi Yorino	Mazda 757	GTP	34	DNF	DNF
1988	Mazdaspeed	David Kennedy Pierre Dieudonné	Mazda 757	GTP	337	15th	1st
1989	Mazdaspeed	Marc Duez Volker Weidler	Mazda 767	GTP	339	12th	3rd
1990	Mazdaspeed	Yoshimi Katayama Takashi Yorino	Mazda 767B	GTP	304	20th	1st
1991	Mazdaspeed Oreca	Pierre Dieudonné Takashi Yorino	Mazda 787	C2	346	8th	8th
1992	Mazdaspeed Oreca	Maurizio Sandro Sala Takashi Yorino	Mazda MXR-01	C1	124	DNF	DNF
1993	Lotus Sport Chamberlain Engineering	Peter Hardman Thorkild Thyrring	Lotus Esprit S300	GT	92	DNF	DNF
1994	Team Artnature	Franck Fréon Pierre de Thoisy	Mazda RX-7 GTO	IMSA GTS	250	15th	2nd
1995	D.T.R. Mazdaspeed	Jim Downing Franck Fréon	Kudzu DG-3-Mazda	WSC	282	7th	3rd
1996	Mazdaspeed	Jim Downing Franck Fréon	Kudzu DLM-Mazda	LMP2	251	25th	1st
1997	Team D.T.R Mazdaspeed	Jim Downing Franck Fréon	Kudzu DLM-4-Mazda	LMP	263	17th	6th
1998	Courage Compétition	Franck Fréon Olivier Thévenin	Courage C36-Porsche	LMP1	300	16th	5th
1999	Autoexe Motorsport	Franck Fréon Robin Donovan	Autoexe LMP99-Ford	LMP	74	DNF	DNF
2000	Rachel Welter	Richard Balandras Sylvain Boulay	WR LMP-Peugeot	LMP675	266	26th	2nd
2001	Gerard Welter	Stéphane Daoudi Jean-René de Fournoux	WR LMP01-Peugeot	LMP675	245	19th	2nd
2002	Autoexe Motorsport	John Fergus Jim Downing	Autoexe (WR) LMP-02-Mazda	LMP675	5	DNF	DNF
2003	Rachel Welter	Olivier Porta Gavin Pickering	WR LMP01-Peugeot	LMP675	235	NC	NC
2004	Rachel Welter	Patrice Roussel Olivier Porta	WR LM2001-Peugeot	LMP2	270	26th	2nd
2005	Rachel Welter	Patrice Roussel William Binnie	WR LMP04-Peugeot	LMP2	233	NC	NC
2006	Binnie Motorsports	William Binnie Allen Timpany	Lola B05/42-Zytek	LMP2	326	13th	2nd
2007	T2M Motorsport	Robin Longechal Yutaka Yamagishi	Dome S101.5-Mader	LMP2	56	DNF	DNF
2008	Terramos	Hiroki Katoh Kazuho Takahashi	Courage LC70-Mugen	LMP1	224	NC	NC
Sources:[8][9]

References

1. 寺田陽次郎公式ウェブサイト » 寺田陽次郎について Archived October 5, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
2. World Sports Racing Prototypes – IMSA 1979 Archived September 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
3. World Sports Racing Prototypes – IMSA 1982 Archived October 24, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
4. "The Most Regular Competitors". Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO). Archived from the original on 5 December 2008. Retrieved 19 February 2009.
5. (in Japanese) Welcome AutoExe Page Archived November 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
6. "Mazda Roadster by Autoexe, HDTV : Nihon Car .com". Archived from the original on 17 September 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2007. Nihon Car.com:Mazda Roadster by Autoexe, HDTV
7. (in Japanese) 学園の10大ポイント Archived November 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
8. "Yojiro Terada". Automobile Club de l'Ouest. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
9. "Yojiro Terada Results". Motorsport Stats. Retrieved 19 March 2023.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Terada's blog page (in Japanese)
• AutoExe
• Yojiro Terada at 24 Hours of Le Mans (in French)