Takazumi Katayama
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| Takazumi Katayama | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Korean | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 April 1951 Kobe, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Takazumi Katayama (片山敬済, born April 16, 1951) is a Korean former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion who raced as a Japanese.[1]
Katayama was the first Asian rider to win a motorcycle road racing world championship when he claimed the 1977 350cc world championship aboard a Yamaha. In 1979 he accepted an offer from Honda to develop their exotic oval-cylinder, four-stroke NR500 race bike. After retiring from competition, Katayama became a motorcycle Grand Prix racing team owner.
