(c) 'Who is Who' by Steve Small, 2000

Родился: 06.06.1951 Токио Сезонов в Ф1: 2 Лет в Ф1: 2 Гран При: 2 Старты: 2 Победы: - подряд: Подиумы: - подряд: Поул-позиции: - подряд: Первый ряд: - подряд: Быстрые круги: - подряд: Лучший финиш: 9 Лучший старт: 19 Дубли: Хет-трики: Лидирование старт/финиш: Большие шлемы: Круги: 71 - лидирования: Километры: 309.49 - лидирования: Очки: - за один сезон: - подряд:

Ф1: 1976-1977

Год	Команда	Шасси
1976	Team Surtees	Surtees TS19
1977	Kojima Engineering	Kojima KE009

Though not as fast a driver in the seventies as his rivals, Masahiro Hasemi and Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Takahara nevertheless got the results that mattered, winning the Japanese F2 title and the Grand Champion sports car series -for the third time - in 1976.

He began racing in 1969 in a Honda S800 coupe, and was a successful March driver in Japan in the early seventies. In 1973 he appeared very briefly in European Formula 2 with a GRD and the following season saw him race a works March 741 in the International Trophy, where he drove steadily and sensibly into 11th place. His ninth-place finish in a rented Surtees at Fuji in 1976 earned him the distinction of being the first Japanese driver to finish a World Championship Grand Prix.

Much to the chagrin of Hasemi, Takahara took over his seat in the Kojima team in 1977, racing in that year's Grand Prix. He was a leading contender in the Japanese Formula 2 series for the rest of the decade, driving Nova, Martini and March chassis, and like his aforementioned rivals continued to race, though much less regularly, throughout the eighties.

(c) 'Who is Who' by Steve Small, 2000