Roger Yasukawa

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Roger Yasukawa (ロジャー安川) is an Japanese American auto racing driver born October 10, 1977 in Los Angeles.

Starting out in go-karts in Southern California, winning the California State Championship in 1991 in Junior Sportsman. He then moved to Italy to compete in JICA. He moved to car racing in 1997 in the Formula Vauxhall Junior Championship in England, before winning the West Coast Skip Barber Formula Dodge 2-Liter Championship in 1998. He moved back to the UK to compete in the inaugural Palmer Audi Championship, before driving several years in the Barber Dodge Pro Series before moving up to the Toyota Atlantic championship in 2002 as a teammate to future star Ryan Hunter-Reay. He finished 10th in points and signed to drive for former Formula One driver Aguri Suzuki's new IRL team in 2003. He was second to future series champion Dan Wheldon in the rookie-of-the-year standings and 12th overall. He ran only two races for Bobby Rahal in 2004 but finished 10th both times. He struggled on a return to a full-time seat in 2005 for the under funded Dreyer & Reinbold team. He drove in the 2006 Indianapolis 500 for Playa Del Racing and finished 16th.