Roger Yasukawa

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Roger Yasukawa

Nationality	United States
Date of Birth	October 10, 1977 (1977-10-10) (age 30)
Place of Birth	Los Angeles, California
2008 IRL IndyCar Series
Debut season	2003
Current team	CURB/Agajanian/Beck Motorsports
Car No.	99
Former teams	Super Aguri Fernandez Racing Rahal Letterman Racing Playa Del Racing Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
Starts	38
Wins	0
Poles	0
Best finish	12th in 2003
Previous series
2002 2000-2001 1999 1998 1997	Toyota Atlantic Championship Barber Dodge Pro Series Palmer Audi Skip Barber Formula Dodge Formula Vauxhall Junior

Roger Yasukawa is an Japanese-American auto racing driver born October 10, 1977 in Los Angeles, California.

Yasukawa started karting 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 Ryan Hunter-Reay. He finished 10th in points.

Yasukawa signed to drive for former Formula One driver Aguri Suzuki's new Indy Racing League team in 2003. He was second to future series champion Dan Wheldon in the rookie-of-the-year standings and 12th overall, with 8 top-10 finishes. He ran only two races for Rahal Letterman Racing in 2004 but finished 10th both times. He struggled on a return to a full-time seat in 2005 for the underfunded Dreyer & Reinbold Racing.

Yaskuawa has only made occasional IRL appearances since 2006. He drove in the 2006 Indianapolis 500 for Playa Del Racing and finished 16th. He was a late entry for the 2007 event, running in Dreyer and Reinbold's third car, alongside 2004 Indianapolis 500 champion Buddy Rice and Sarah Fisher. In 2008 he contested the Motegi round as well as the 2008 Indianapolis 500, for Beck Motorsports, however he failed to qualify for Indy.

In 2007, Yasukawa drove the #11 SAMAX Motorsport Daytona Prototype at Infineon Raceway, finishing 17th.

1 Motorsports Career Results
- 1.1 American Open-Wheel
  - 1.1.1 IndyCar
- 1.2 Indy 500 results
2 External links

[edit] Motorsports Career Results

[edit] American Open-Wheel

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

[edit] IndyCar

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Rank	Points
2003	Aguri Fernandez	HMS 14	PHX Ret	JPN Ret	IND 10	TXS 9	PPI Ret	RIR 11	KAN 7	NSH 15	MIS 8	STL Ret	KTY 12	NZR 8	CHI 8	CAL 7	TX2 10		12th	301
2004	Rahal Letterman	HMS	PHX	JPN 11	IND 10	TXS	RIR	KAN	NSH	MIL	MIS	KTY	PPI	NZR	CHI	CAL	TX2		26th	39
2005	Dreyer & Reinbold	HMS Ret	PHX Ret	STP 11	JPN Ret	IND Ret	TXS 15	RIR Ret	KAN Ret	NSH 11	MIL 15	MIS Ret	KTY Ret	PPI 15	SNM 11	CHI 15	WGL 15	CAL 16	17th	246
2006	Playa Del Racing	HMS	STP	JPN	IND 16	WGL	TXS	RIR	KAN	NSH	MIL	MIS	KTY	SNM	CHI				28th	14
2007	Dreyer & Reinbold	HMS	STP	JPN	KAN	IND 21	MIL	TXS	IOW	RIR	WGL	NSH	MDO	MIS	KTY	SNM	DET	CHI	30th	12
2008	Beck	HMS	STP	JPN 14	LBH	KAN	IND DNQ	MIL	TXS	IOW	RIR	WGL	NSH	MDO	KTY	SNM	DET	CHI	31st*	16*

* 2008 season in progress

Years	Teams	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums (Non-win)	Top 10s (Non-podium)	Indianapolis 500 Wins	Championships
6	5	38	0	0	0	9	0	0

[edit] Indy 500 results

Practicing for the 2007 Indianapolis 500.

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish
2003	Dallara	Honda	11th	10th
2004	G-Force	Honda	12th	10th
2005	Dallara	Honda	17th	18th
2006	Panoz	Honda	28th	16th
2007	Dallara	Honda	23rd	21st
2008	Dallara	Honda	Failed to Qualify