Inilah 3 Orang Paling Top Di Balik Team Repsol Honda

Repsol Honda merupakan Team resmi pabrikan Honda di ajang balap MotoGP.  Namun, sudah taukah anda bahwa di balik Team Repsol Honda ada 3 orang Top dari HRC yang menggawangi kuatnya Repsol Honda. Ya, mereka adalah Shuhei Nakamoto, Shinichi Kokubu, dan Livio Suppo. Namun, anda jangan kaget dengan nama terakhir Livio Suppo yang saya sebutkan di atas. Memang mulai dari tahun 2011 Livio Suppo pindah dari Ducati dan Join ke HRC.

Di Bawah ini adalah Biodata lengkap 3 Orang Paling Top di Balik Team Repsol Honda:

1. SHUHEI NAKAMOTO
PROFILE:
HRC Vice President
Date of birth: 29 April 1957
Place of birth: Tottori, Japan

CAREER:
1983: Joined Honda Motor, and assigned to HRC
1984: RS125 and RS250 Project Leader for Body & Chassis Engineering design Group
1988: RS250 Large Project Leader (LPL)
1990: RS125 Large Project Leader (LPL)
1992: NSR250 Large Project Leader (LPL) for WGP, RS250 Large Project Leader (LPL)
1995: RS125 Large Project Leader (LPL)
1997: RVF750 Large Project Leader (LPL)
for Superbike
2000: VTR1000 Large Project Leader (LPL) for Superbike
2002: Automobile R&D Centre, Honda R&D Co.,Ltd
HRD (Honda Racing Development) Racing Test team Manager
2003: HRD Engineering Director
2005: HRD Engineering Director and BAR Honda Senior Advisor
2006-2008: HRD Technical Director and Honda Racing F1 Team Senior Technical Director
2009-2012: Vice President of HRC, Operating Officer at Motorcycle R&D Centre, Honda R&D Co.,Ltd General Manager Motor Sports Development (MSD)

2. SHINICHI KOKUBU
PROFILE:
Technical Director
Date of birth: 12 September 1967
Place of birth: Tochigi, Japan
CAREER:
1986: Chassis designing dept; 500cc, TT-F1, TT-F3
1996-2001: Chassis project leader – NSR500
2002: Project leader – NSR500
2003: Chassis project leader – RC211V
2004-2005: Chief engineer of chassis – MotoGP and Superbike
2006-2007: Chief engineer of chassis – MotoGP and Superbike
2008-2009: Project leader – RC212V
2010-2011: Technical Director, MotoGP

3. LIVIO SUPPO
PROFILE:
HRC Communications and Marketing Director
Date of birth: 30 October 1964
Place of birth:Turin, Italy
CAREER:
1989: Degree in Business and Administration at the University of Turin
1995-1998: Responsible for Benetton motorcycle racing project with Tohru Ukawa, Marco Melandri
1999-2002: Ducati Corse Marketing Manager
2003-2009: Ducati MotoGP Project Leader
Riders: Loris Capirossi (MotoGP 2003-07), Troy Bayliss (2003-04) Carlos Checa (05) Sete Gibernau (06), Casey Stoner (2007-09), Marco Melandri (08), Nicky Hayden (09)
2010: Joined HRC as Marketing Director
2011:HRC Communication and Marketing Director

Sumber: Honda World Wide