Yuhi Sekiguchi

**Yuhi Sekiguchi** (**関口雄飛** in Japanese; born 29 December 1987) is a Japanese racing driver who competes for Itochu Enex Team Impul in the 2019 Super Formula Championship. A multiple race winner in Super Formula, **Sekiguchi** has a lot of experience in both junior single seaters and the Super GT series.

## Background

Sekiguchi began his career in karting, before competing in his first major race car series in 2004, completing two races in Asian Formula Renault Challenge. For 2005 Sekuguchi would campaign in the Formula Toyota Championship, taking three podium finishes. 2006 saw Sekiguchi claim the Formula Toyota title, as well as the Formula Challenge Japan championship.

### Native Negotiations

The All-Japan Formula Three Championship was Sekiguchi's next port-of-call, with the Japanese racer claiming a full season seat in 2007. The Japanese racer would have a quiet debut campaign, although he did claim one win in the GT300 class of Super GT. 2008 saw Sekiguchi move to Europe, competing in the Formula Master Italia among other series, before returning to Asia for the GP2 Asia Series in 2009.

Sekiguchi would spend 2009 back in the Japanese F3 Championship, claiming three wins in the National Class. 2010 proved to be a similar campaign, with the Japanese racer securing second in the National Class at the end of the season. Sekiguchi was subsequently promoted to the full F3 Championship class in 2011, and duly won the series with six wins from twelve races.

### GTs and F3s

2012 saw Sekiguchi complete a full season of Super GT in GT300, claiming one class victory. 2013 saw the Japanese racer move into the senior GT500 category with Nissan, while also taking part in a series of one-off F3 races in a variety of series. However, Sekiguchi was unable to match the heights of the previous two seasons, and only had a few point scoring races come the end of the season.

2014 and 2015 were very similar seasons, with variety not proving to be Sekiguchi's ally.

## Full Super Formula Record

Shown below are a series of tables outlining Yuhi Sekiguchi's career in Super Formula in statistical form.

### Super Formula Entries

The list below includes all of the teams and cars, as well as overall finishing positions for Yuhi Sekiguchi during their SF career:

 2017 | Itochu Enex Team Impul | 19
 2018 | Itochu Enex Team Impul | 19
 2019 | Itochu Enex Team Impul | 19

### Career Results

Below is a table showing Yuhi Sekiguchi's full Super Formula record.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rachit Thukral, 'Markelov joins Super Formula as Toyota reveals 2019 drivers', *motorsport.com*, (Motorsport Network, 07/02/2019), https://www.motorsport.com/super-formula/news/toyota-super-formula-2019-line-up/4333541/, (Accessed 25/04/2019)
2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 'Yuhi Sekiguchi', *driverdb.com*, (DriverDB AB, 2019), https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/yuhi-sekiguchi/, (Accessed 09/05/2019)
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