Ukyo Katayama
In the race, he stalled on the grid, the same as his countryman, Ukyo Katayama. Both were push-started on their way, but while Katayama proceeded to storm back through the field to finish in seventh, Noda could do no more than tour at the back. That he only did for 10 laps, before he suffered a terminal gearbox problem and began limping back to the pits.