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Ai Ogura

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Born
2001 (25 years old)
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Tokyo, Japan

Position
Driver

Status
Active

Ethnicity
Asian

Team Number
79

Height
168cm

Weight
56kg

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Latest Results

					USA GP	29 Mar 26
					USA Sprint Race	28 Mar 26
					Brazil GP	22 Mar 26
					Brazil Sprint Race	21 Mar 26
					Thailand GP	01 Mar 26
					Thailand Sprint Race	28 Feb 26
					Valencia GP	16 Nov 25
					Valencia Sprint Race	15 Nov 25
					Portugal GP	09 Nov 25
					Portugal Sprint Race	08 Nov 25
					Malaysia GP	26 Oct 25
					Malaysia Sprint Race	25 Oct 25
					Australia GP	19 Oct 25
					Australia Sprint Race	18 Oct 25
					Japan Sprint Race	27 Sep 25
					San Marino GP	14 Sep 25
					San Marino Sprint Race	13 Sep 25
					Catalonia GP	07 Sep 25
					Catalonia Sprint Race	06 Sep 25
					Hungary GP	24 Aug 25
					Hungary Sprint Race	23 Aug 25
					MotoGP - GP de Austria	17 Aug 25
					Austria Sprint Race	16 Aug 25
					Qatar Sprint Race	12 Apr 25
					Thailand GP	02 Mar 25
					Thailand Sprint Race	01 Mar 25
					Thailand Grand Prix Moto2	27 Oct 24
					Grand Prix of Japan Moto2	06 Oct 24
					Pertamina Grand Prix of Indonesia Moto2	29 Sep 24
					Gran Premio di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini Moto2	08 Sep 24
					Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland Moto2	07 Jul 24
					TT Assen Moto2	30 Jun 24
					Gran Premi de Catalunya Moto2	26 May 24
					Grand Prix de France Moto2	12 May 24
					Croft Race 3	19 Sep 21

Description

Ai Ogura (Japanese: 小椋藍, Hepburn: Ogura Ai; born 26 January 2001) is a Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle racer who competes in the MotoGP class for Trackhouse MotoGP Team. He was crowned 2024 Moto2 World Champion with MT Helmets – MSi, being the first Japanese rider to win a world championship in fifteen years since Hiroshi Aoyama in 2009.

He previously competed in Moto2 and Moto3 for Idemitsu Honda Team Asia, finishing as championship runner-up in 2022. Ogura is the first Asia Talent Cup graduate to make it to MotoGP, alongside Somkiat Chantra.

Career
Early career
Ogura was born in Kiyose, Japan. The son of a motorcycle enthusiast, he rode a pocketbike for the first time at the age of three, and began participating in races at four years old. He stepped up to mini-bikes after turning nine.

He was selected to participate in the second ever Asia Talent Cup season in 2015 at 14 years of age, where he clinched a win and three podiums.

For 2016, Ogura joined the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup and finished on the podium in one race, ending 11th overall. He was given a second year in the Asia Talent Cup where he finished as runner-up. After his successful period in the Asia Talent Cup, he was given a seat in the Asia Talent Team by Honda in the FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship, winning one race in Jerez. Ogura also took part in the 2017 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, earning five podiums in total, including two wins, despite missing several races due to an injury.

In 2018, Ogura participated in his last FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship season, where he earned five podiums and a single win in Valencia.

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