Yojiro Terada driving the T2M Motorsport Dome-Mader during the 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Yojiro Terada (寺田陽次郎, Terada Yōjirō, born 26 March 1947) is a Japanese racing driver from Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. 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.[1] He scored class victories at the event in 1983, 1988, 1990 and 1996, while his best overall finish was seventh in 1995.
He began his racing career in a Honda S600[2] 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.
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.[3] The other occasion was a fourth place overall finish and a GTO class win in 1982.[4]
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)
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He is the father of voice actress Haruhi Nanao.
^"The Most Regular Competitors". Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO). Archived from the original on December 5, 2008. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
^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
^World Sports Racing Prototypes – IMSA 1979 Archived September 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^World Sports Racing Prototypes – IMSA 1982 Archived October 24, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
^(in Japanese) Welcome AutoExe Page Archived November 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^"Mazda Roadster by Autoexe, HDTV : Nihon Car .com". Archived from the original on September 17, 2008. Retrieved December 4, 2007. Nihon Car.com:Mazda Roadster by Autoexe, HDTV
^(in Japanese) 学園の10大ポイント Archived November 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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1971). The third entry was one of last year's 767 models, driven by YojiroTerada/Marc Duez/Volker Weidler. Practice week had a tragic start, with a terrible...
category, finishing eight laps ahead of the Rachel Welter WR LM2001 car of YojiroTerada, Patrice Roussel and Olivier Porta. The Le Mans Grand Touring Sport...
#00, driven by Tristan Nunez, Spencer Pigot, and Tristan Vautier, and YojiroTerada, and the third car was driven under the #25, being driven by Andrew...
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and holds the record for the most Le Mans appearances at 33. Japan's YojiroTerada was active as a driver until 2008, and holds the record for the most...
finish the entire 24 hours of the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, in 1974. YojiroTerada was the driver of the MC74. Mazda was the first team from outside Western...
supported by one of last year's 767B models with the Japanese crew of YojiroTerada/Takashi Yorino/Yoshimi Katayama. However, this year, Mazda had a challenger...
Steve Soper and James Weaver in one car, while Japanese works-drivers YojiroTerada, Yoshimi Katayama and Takashi Yorino had the new chassis, fitted with...
by Tom Walkinshaw Racing. Walkinshaw led one car while works driver YojiroTerada led the other. This year, Steve O'Rourke's EMKA team switched the BMW...
360 Modena GT P 16 Ferrari 3.6 L V8 DNF LMP675 24 Autoexe Motorsports YojiroTerada John Fergus Jim Downing Autoexe LMP-02 A 5 Mazda R26B 2.6 L 4-Rotor...
than the Group C cars. Three cars came to Le Mans: last years drivers, Terada/Kennedy/Dieudonné had an older 757. Two of the new 767s went to the Japanese...
the leader into the night until 11pm when he was hit from behind by YojiroTerada's Lotus GT missing its braking point at the 2nd Mulsanne chicane. Repairs...
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