Takamoto Katsuta

Quick Facts

Full Name	Takamoto Katsuta
Occupation	Racing Driver
Date Of Birth	Mar 17, 1993(1993-03-17)
Age	31
Birthplace	Nagoya
Country	Japan
Horoscope	Pisces

Takamoto Katsuta Biography

Takamoto Katsuta is one of the most popular and richest Racing Driver who was born on March 17, 1993 in Nagoya, Japan. In his final year in Japanese Formula 3, Katsuta began rallying locally at the level. He began his rally with the Toyota GT86 in the JN-5 class of the Japan Rally Championship (a series which his dad, Norihiko, has won eight times). In his second race that was in the Rally Highland Masters, Takamoto took first place in his class, and placed 10th overall. The ultimate goal of Takamoto was to be accepted in Toyota’s Development Driver Program. His performance at the rally in Japan attracted the attention of the four-time World Rally Champion and future Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT team director Tommi Makinen. He accepted him into Toyota’s program along with Hiroki Arai.

In the beginning of his involvement in partnership with Makinen along with Toyota, Katsuta would participate in select rallies and train all-time in Finland under the supervision of Makinen. Katsuta’s first rally in conjunction with Tommi Makinen Racing took place in the local Finnish as well as Latvian events in the Subaru Impreza WRX. From the beginning of 2016 Katsuta was scheduled to rally with a highly experienced co-driver, Daniel Barritt. Katsuta was able to achieve some success in local Finnish rallies, and was equipped with the Ford Fiesta R5 for the Rally Estonia, his first large-scale long-distance event using FIA-homologated four-wheel drive equipment. It also marked his debut attempt at the European Rally Championship. He was unable to finish the race after colliding during the second leg. However, Makinen promoted Katsuta and Hiroki Arai to their first World Rally Championship start at Finland and they took part with the WRC-2 Class. Katsuta was 12th in the class, a mere 16 minutes behind the winner of the class.

Beginning in 2017, Katsuta would be participating in a full-season World Rally Championship program in the WRC-2 category, alongside Hiroki Arai. Katsuta would also be rallying in local rallies outside of Finland. He partnered Marko Salminen for this season. Successes for the two drivers were few and far between, but Katsuta would make a name for himself upon taking a class podium at the Rally Italia Sardegna.

Towards the end of the 2018 season, Toyota announced their intentions to eventually run Katsuta in a World Rally Car potentially by 2020. He spent 2019 competing in the WRC-2 class with Tommi Mäkinen Racing. After two seasons with Elfyn Evans, Daniel Barritt returned to be Katsuta’s co-driver. Katsuta’s first outing with a Toyota Yaris WRC was at the SM-Itäralli, a round of the Finnish championship, in which he would impress with a victory.

Based on the results Katsuta enjoyed with Formula Challenge Japan, the TOM’S team enlisted Katsuta as the driver in their Japanese Formula 3 Championship in 2012. He raced within the National class. He was third in this category and was later elevated as a full championship-winning driver in 2013. Katsuta enjoyed great success in 2013 with two wins and finishing second overall in the championship with a win over drivers like Katsumasa Chiyo, and a future participant in the McLaren Young Driver Programme, Nobuharu Matsushita. The next year, in 2014 was to be Katsuta’s final season racing in Formula 3. He was not as successful with his 4th place finish in the standings, and claiming two wins.

Takamoto Katsuta Net Worth

Takamoto Katsuta is one of the richest Racing Driver from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Takamoto Katsuta 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Takamoto Katsuta (Sheng Tian Gui Yuan , Katsuta Takamoto born 17 March 1993) is a Japanese rally driver. He currently competes for Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT in the World Rally Championship. He gained acclaim after claiming a surprising victory during his WRC-2 classification at the 2017 Rally Sweden.

Katsuta was born in Nagoya. Karting began at 12 years old. after achieving intermediate successes in this class and then he started participating in Formula Challenge Japan series in 2010 and was crowned champion in 2011at the age of 18.

After his breakout onto the international scene in 2017, Katsuta would begin to enjoy more successes in 2018. He began with a 3rd-place overall finish at the Arctic Lapland Rally, one of the biggest local rallies in Finland. Then at the Rally Sweden, after winning 10 of the 19 special stages, Katsuta won the World Rally Championship-2 class, finishing 11th overall. He won by just 4.5 seconds from Škoda factory driver and then-reigning WRC-2 champion Pontus Tidemand. After this surprise success, Katsuta and team-mate Hiroki Arai continued to rally in the European WRC events, albeit without reaching the level of success achieved at Sweden.

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Takamoto Ranked on the list of most popular Racing Driver. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Takamoto Katsuta celebrates birthday on March 17 of every year.