Takuma Sato

Takuma Sato
Driver Information
Born	January 28, 1977 (1977-01-28) Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	JPN
Formula One World ChampionshipCareer Statistics
Status	IndyCar Series
World Titles	0
Races	91 (90 starts)
Poles	0
Wins	0
Podium	1
Fastest Laps	0
Points	44
First Race	2002 Australian Grand Prix
Last Race	2008 Spanish Grand Prix

Takuma Sato is a Japanese former Formula One driver who competed for Jordan, Super Aguri and BAR during his 7 year career. From 2002 and 2008, Sato started 90 races, scoring one podium and 44 World Championship Points.

Since leaving Formula One, Sato is currently competing in the IndyCar Series. He also competed in Formula E, but only entered for a single race.

Sato was the winner of the Indianapolis 500 in 2017 and 2020.

Formula One Career

Sato started his career in Formula One for Jordan in 2002. He scored his first points finish at his home race, which was the final round of the season.

He moved on to BAR for the 2003 season. When BAR driver Jacques Villeneuve was sacked before the end of the season, Sato filled the vacant seat for his home race, which he eventually finished 6th.

In 2004, Sato achieved his first and only podium finish at the United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis, the first time a Japanese driver finished on the podium since 1990 by Aguri Suzuki, until it was succeeded by Kamui Kobayashi in 2012.

In 2005, Sato was retained by BAR for another season, but he struggled with the BAR 007, and scoring only a single point at the Hungarian Grand Prix. He was not retained for the 2006 season, despite BAR being sold to Honda.

Sato moved to the Super Aguri team in 2006. His best finish for the team was a 10th-place finish at the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix. In 2007, he secured the first points finish for Super Aguri at the Spanish Grand Prix, and then finished 6th in the Canadian Grand Prix, passing McLaren's Fernando Alonso for 6th.

Sato only entered in 4 races in 2008, due to the financial issues for the Super Aguri team. After the team withdrew from the entire season, he took part in tests at Jerez with Toro Rosso. He was to be a candidate for the seat vacanted by Sebastian Vettel, but eventually Sébastien Bourdais won the seat, and Sato would not be the reserve driver for the Toro Rosso team for the following season.

Formula One Statistical Overview

Formula One Record

Year	Entrant	Team	WDC Points		WDC Pos.	Report
2001	Lucky Strike BAR Honda	BAR-Honda	Test Driver
2002	DHL Jordan Honda	Jordan-Honda	2		15th	Report
2003	Lucky Strike BAR Honda	BAR-Honda	Test Driver
			3			Report
2004	Lucky Strike BAR Honda	BAR-Honda	34		8th	Report
2005	Lucky Strike BAR Honda	BAR-Honda	1		23th	Report
2006	Super Aguri F1 Team	Super Aguri-Honda	0		23th	Report
2007	Super Aguri F1	Super Aguri-Honda	4		17th	Report
2008	Super Aguri F1	Super Aguri-Honda	0		21th	Report
	Scuderia Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	Test Driver

Career Statistics

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Career Results

Complete Formula One Results
Year	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Pts	Pos Template:2002 Results/19 Template:2003 Results/19 Template:2004 Results/19 Template:2005 Results/19 Template:2006 Results/19 Template:2007 Results/19 Template:2008 Results/19

Key
Symbol	Meaning		Symbol	Meaning
1st	Winner		Ret	Retired
2nd	Podium finish		DSQ	Disqualified
3rd			DNQ	Did not qualify
5th	Points finish		DNPQ	Did not pre-qualify
14th	Non-points finish		TD	Test driver
Italics	Scored point(s) for Fastest Lap		DNS	Did not start
18th†	Classified finish (retired with >90% race distance)		NC	Non-classified finish (<90% race distance)
4thP	Qualified for pole position		[+] More Symbols

Notes

V T E	Teams and Drivers
2001 Teams and Drivers Teams Ferrari • McLaren • Williams • Benetton • BAR • Jordan • Arrows • Sauber • Jaguar • Minardi • Prost Engines Acer • Asiatech • BMW • Cosworth • European • Ferrari • Honda • Mercedes • Petronas • Renault Drivers 1 M. Schumacher • 2 Barrichello • 3 Häkkinen • 4 Coulthard • 5 R. Schumacher • 6 Montoya • 7 Fisichella • 8 Button • 9 Panis • 10 Villeneuve • 11 Frentzen • 11 Zonta • 11/12 Trulli • 12 Alesi • 14 Verstappen • 15 Bernoldi • 16 Heidfeld • 17 Räikkönen • 18 Irvine • 19 Burti • 19 de la Rosa • 20 Marques • 20 Yoong • 21 Alonso • 22 Alesi • 22 Frentzen • 23 Mazzacane • 23 Burti • 23 Enge
2002 Teams and Drivers Teams Ferrari • McLaren • Williams • Sauber • Jordan • BAR • Renault • Jaguar • Arrows • Minardi • Toyota Engines Ferrari • Mercedes • BMW • Petronas • Honda • Renault • Cosworth • Asiatech • Toyota Drivers 1 M. Schumacher • 2 Barrichello • 3 Coulthard • 4 Räikkönen • 5 R. Schumacher • 6 Montoya • 7 Heidfeld • 8 Massa • 8 Frentzen • 9 Fisichella • 10 Sato • 11 Villeneuve • 12 Panis • 14 Trulli • 15 Button • 16 Irvine • 17 de la Rosa • 20 Frentzen • 21 Bernoldi • 22 Yoong • 22 Davidson • 23 Webber • 24 Salo • 25 McNish
2003 Teams and Drivers Teams Ferrari • Williams • McLaren • Renault • Sauber • Jordan • Jaguar • BAR • Minardi • Toyota Engines BMW • Cosworth • Ferrari • Ford • Honda • Mercedes • Petronas • Renault • Toyota Drivers 1 M. Schumacher • 2 Barrichello • 3 Montoya • 4 R. Schumacher • 4 Gené • 5 Coulthard • 6 Räikkönen • 7 Trulli • 8 Alonso • 9 Heidfeld • 10 Frentzen • 11 Fisichella • 12 Firman • 12 Baumgartner • 14 Webber • 15 Pizzonia • 15 Wilson • 16 Villeneuve • 16 Sato • 17 Button • 18 Wilson • 18 Kiesa • 19 Verstappen • 20 Panis • 21 Da Matta Other Drivers Badoer • Beretta • Bruni • Davidson • De la Rosa • Lotterer • Massa • McNish • Montagny • Paffett • Wurz • Zonta
2004 Teams and Drivers Teams Ferrari • Williams • McLaren • Renault • BAR • Sauber • Jaguar • Toyota • Jordan • Minardi Engines BMW • Ferrari • Ford Cosworth • Honda • Mercedes • Petronas • Toyota Drivers 1 M. Schumacher • 2 Barrichello • 3 Montoya • 4 R. Schumacher • 4 Gené • 4 Pizzonia • 5 Coulthard • 6 Räikkönen • 7/16 Trulli • 7 Villeneuve • 8 Alonso • 9 Button • 10 Sato • 11 Fisichella • 12 Massa • 14 Webber • 15 Klien • 16 da Matta • 16/17 Zonta • 17 Panis • 18 Heidfeld • 19 Pantano • 19 Glock • 20 Bruni • 21 Baumgartner Other Drivers Albers • Badoer • Bell • Beretta • Bernoldi • Bertolini • Briscoe • Burti • Carroll • Congfu • Davidson • Davison • Del Monte • Dixon • Doornbos • Firman • Green • Hamilton
2005 Teams and Drivers Teams Ferrari • BAR • Renault • Williams • McLaren • Sauber • Red Bull • Toyota • Jordan • Minardi Engines BMW • Cosworth • Ferrari • Honda • Mercedes • Petronas • Renault • Toyota Drivers 1 M. Schumacher • 2 Barrichello • 3 Button • 4 Sato • 4 Davidson • 5 Alonso • 6 Fisichella • 7 Webber • 8 Heidfeld • 8 Pizzonia • 9 Räikkönen • 10 Montoya • 10 De la Rosa • 10 Wurz • 11 Villeneuve • 12 Massa • 14 Coulthard • 15 Klien • 15 Liuzzi • 16 Trulli • 17 R. Schumacher • 17 Zonta • 18 Monteiro • 19 Karthikeyan • 20 Friesacher • 20 Doornbos • 21 Albers Other Drivers Badoer • Bernoldi • Gené • Kiesa • Kovalainen • Montagny • Panis • Rosberg • Speed • Yamamoto
2006 Teams and Drivers Teams Renault • McLaren • Ferrari • Toyota • Williams • Honda • Red Bull • BMW Sauber • Midland • Toro Rosso • Super Aguri Engines BMW • Cosworth • Ferrari • Honda • Mercedes • Renault • Toyota Drivers 1 Alonso • 2 Fisichella • 3 Räikkönen • 4 Montoya • 4 De la Rosa • 5 M. Schumacher • 6 Massa • 7 R. Schumacher • 8 Trulli • 9 Webber • 10 Rosberg • 11 Barrichello • 12 Button • 14 Coulthard • 15 Klien • 15 Doornbos • 16 Heidfeld • 17 Villeneuve • 17 Kubica • 18 Monteiro • 19 Albers • 20 Liuzzi • 21 Speed • 22 Sato • 23 Ide • 23 Montagny • 23 Yamamoto Other Drivers Badoer • Davidson • Hamilton • Kovalainen • Piquet • Sutil • Vettel • Wurz
2007 Teams and Drivers Teams McLaren • Renault • Ferrari • Honda • BMW Sauber • Toyota • Red Bull • Williams • Toro Rosso • Spyker • Super Aguri Engines BMW • Ferrari • Honda • Mercedes • Renault • Toyota Drivers 1 Alonso • 2 Hamilton • 3 Fisichella • 4 Kovalainen • 5 Massa • 6 Räikkönen • 7 Button • 8 Barrichello • 9 Heidfeld • 10 Kubica/Vettel • 11 R. Schumacher • 12 Trulli • 14 Coulthard • 15 Webber • 16 Rosberg • 17 Wurz/Nakajima • 18 Liuzzi • 19 Speed/Vettel • 20 Sutil • 21 Albers/Winkelhock/Yamamoto • 22 Sato • 23 Davidson Other Drivers Albuquerque • Ammermüller • Andretti • Asmer • Badoer • Bird • Bourdais • Buemi • Chandhok • Chandhok
2008 Teams and Drivers Teams Ferrari • BMW Sauber • Renault • Williams • Red Bull • Toyota • Toro Rosso • Honda • Super Aguri • Force India • McLaren Engines Mercedes • Renault • Ferrari • BMW • Toyota • Honda Race Drivers 1 Räikkönen • 2 Massa • 3 Heidfeld • 4 Kubica • 5 Alonso • 6 Piquet, Jr • 7 Rosberg • 8 Nakajima • 9 Coulthard • 10 Webber • 11 Trulli • 12 Glock • 14 Bourdais • 15 Vettel • 16 Button • 17 Barrichello • 18 Sato • 19 Davidson • 20 Sutil • 21 Fisichella • 22 Hamilton • 23 Kovalainen Other Drivers Badoer • Gené • Schumacher • Klien • Asmer • di Grassi • Grosjean • Yamamoto • Hülkenberg • Buemi • Kobayashi • Hartley • Wurz • Conway • Filippi • Liuzzi • Paffett • de la Rosa