Osamu Miyazaki

Miyazaki started racing when he was 23, when he entered the All Japan Road Race Championship riding 250 cc motocycles, and won his first race three years later.[1] Following this success, he joined the Aprilia team, which at the time was not well known in Japan.[2] He moved to Italy in 1996 to race in the Grand Prix.[1] He was the second Japanese rider at the Championships and the first Japanese contender to participate in the championship full-time.[2]

He achieved his first win at the 2002 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix at Suzuka while racing with Motorex Daytona Yamaha.[3] He started at eighth place and finishing almost ten seconds ahead of the next competitor.[4] He entered as a Japanese wildcard.[5]

In 2004, he moved to racing 600 cc motorcycles in the All Japan Road Race Championships.[1] He started his own team in 2008 and took pole position the following year at Autopolis, but suffered a serious injury at the end of the season.[6] He subsequently raced in 2010 and 2011.[7]

Miyazaki was involved in the development of the Yamaha TZ250 and Yamaha YZF-R6.[1] He worked with Dunlop Tyres in tyre R&D in 2004 and coached Chinese competitors in 2009.[2]