Shuhei Nakamoto

Shuhei Nakamoto
Shuhei Nakamoto
Born	29 April 1957 (age 66)
Nationality	Japanese

Shuhei Nakamoto (中本修平, Nakamoto Shūhei; born 29 April 1957) is the vice-president of Honda Racing Corporation.

Career

Nakamoto joined the Honda Racing Corporation in 1983 and his initial work was based around the corporation's motorcycle racing operations at Honda Racing Corporation (HRC). By 1984, Nakamoto was already project leader on the design of the Honda RS125 and RS250 production racing machines. By 1990 he had been moved up to the role of large project leader on both these machines.

Nakamoto continued to work with motorcycles, but moved to the

Honda Racing Developments Ltd.

(HRD). Another promotion in 2003 led to him becoming engineering director for Honda Racing Developments Ltd., and he stayed in this role until 2006.

During 2006, Nakamoto got his big break being appointed the Senior Technical Director for the Honda F1 team, taking over from Geoff Willis, an aerodynamics specialist.

The

previous season

.

Various explanations have been proposed for why the car performed so poorly. One was that the wind tunnel which was set up in July, 2006^[1] broke at almost the same time that Geoff Willis was replaced by Nakamoto.^[2] Thus, the new car had been designed using a faulty wind tunnel.

To try to fix the aerodynamics problems Honda employed a number of new aerodynamicists including

Williams)^[3]

in July 2007.

On December 1, 2008, four days before Honda announced its withdrawal from Formula One,

MotoGP team.^[5]

He retired in November 2016.[6]