OldRacingCars.com

Takeo Kiuchi

No picture available of Takeo Kiuchi as an Engine Designer.

Can you help?

No current picture available of Takeo Kiuchi.

Can you help?

Born:

23 Nov 1956
Tokyo

Nationality:

Japan

Engines:

Honda (2002-2005)

Still at Honda, where he is senior Researcher for the R & D Department. Has been at Honda for around 35 years, and was both in charge of the F1 projects the firm had, as well as being head of the firm's racing activities for a while. During that time he has worked on alternative fuel programs, but first worked in the sport as a race engineer to Alain Prost in 1989, when Prost was at McLaren, and when the Frenchman moved to Ferrari, Kiuchi became Ayrton Senna's race engineer.

Biography last updated