Kousuke Akiyoshi

Kousuke Akiyoshi (born January 12 1975) is a motorcycle road racer from Fukuoka, Japan. He currently competes in the All Japan Superbike championship, where he has enjoyed success with the Yoshimura Suzuki team riding a Suzuki GSX-R1000. In July 2007 he, along with Yukio Kagayama, won the Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race on a Yoshimura Suzuki bike. As of September 2007 he is also a test rider for the Rizla Suzuki team in the MotoGP series, and has so far competed in three Grands Prix. These have included The Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi, where he finished 13th on his debut, as well as two races in 2007 at Catalunya and Japan. He came 17th at the Spanish race, and had a good run in Japan where he was running 7th behind Casey Stoner, but unfortunately retired four laps from the finish.

Links

* [http://www1.odn.ne.jp/jaja/akiyoshi/ Kousuke Akiyoshi official website (in Japanese)]
* [http://www.motogp.com/ Official MotoGP homepage]