Roger Yasukawa
Nationality	United States
Date of Birth	October 10, 1977 (1977-10-10) (age 30)
Place of Birth	Los Angeles, California
Related to	Minoru Yasukawa, worked for McLaren and Leyton House F1 teams.[1][2]
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 (born October 10, 1977 in Los Angeles, California) is an Japanese-American auto racing driver.

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.

Motorsports Career Results

American Open-Wheel

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

IndyCar

* 2008 season in progress

Indy 500 results

Practicing for the 2007 Indianapolis 500.

References

External links

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