1. Ukyo Katayama is a Japanese former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1992 to 1997.
17 Facts About Ukyo Katayama
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Ukyo Katayama scored a total of five championship points, all of them for the Tyrrell team in 1994.
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Ukyo Katayama competed in the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing second overall and leading the GTP class.
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Ukyo Katayama has managed the Japanese continental cycling team Team UKYO since 2012.
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Ukyo Katayama scored three podiums in 1990, and won the championship in 1991 with two wins and three second places.
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However, Ukyo Katayama impressed by running in 5th at the Canadian GP until his engine blew, but was eventually left with a brace of 9th places as his best result.
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Ukyo Katayama impressed with the new 022, with three points-scoring finishes, a number of good qualifying performances, and generally being faster than his more experienced and acclaimed team-mate Mark Blundell.
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Ukyo Katayama was consistently a top-6 runner, but the car proved to be unreliable, leading him to 12 retirements, including the German GP, in which he was running 3rd before his throttle stuck open.
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Ukyo Katayama did not announce this until he retired from Formula One, not wanting anyone's sympathy to make excuses for him.
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Ukyo Katayama stayed on with Tyrrell for the next two seasons, but suffered a loss of form, with two 7th places in high-attrition races his best results, thus scoring no points whilst being outpaced by rookie team-mate Mika Salo.
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Still popular in his homeland, Ukyo Katayama has since dabbled in sportscars and GT racing, as well as his other love of mountaineering.
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In year 2000, Katayama established Team UKYO motor sport team.
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Ukyo Katayama led the team to three GT300 titles in 2011,2014, and 2017.
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Ukyo Katayama has often been climbing mountains since his F1 era.
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Ukyo Katayama has been participating other sporting events as an official invitee, such as Honolulu Marathon and Honolulu Century Ride.
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Ukyo Katayama is a commentator of Formula One in Japan, for Fuji TV.
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Ukyo Katayama's helmet was blue with a red and white stripe crossing the rear area and going in the sides forming an oblique letter T, and a vertical red and white stripe going across the top.