is a Japanese professional racing driver. He won the GT300 class Super GT championship in 2002 and

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Career

Takagi made his debut in the

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(JGTC) in

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, driving for in the GT500 class. For the 1999 season, he switched to the GT300 class, finishing third in the championship that year. He won his maiden title in 2002 with

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(ARTA), driving an -prepared Toyota MR-S alongside . In the following years, with the series renamed as Super GT in 2005, Takagi won numerous races and finished runner-up in the standings in 2004,

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, 2010 and

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. In

, he won his second GT300 championship seventeen years after his first, driving the Honda NSX GT3 Evo of ARTA, with Takagi and his co-driver

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finishing over ten points clear of the second place finishers.

Complete JGTC/Super GT Results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

References

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1970 births Living people People from Yamaguchi Prefecture Japanese racing drivers Japanese Formula 3 Championship drivers Super GT drivers {{Japan-autoracing-bio-stub Team Aguri drivers