Kenjiro Shinozuka, le premier pilote japonais à avoir remporté le Paris-Dakar en 1997, est décédé lundi à l'âge de 75 ans des suites d'un cancer du pancréas, selon des médias japonais, dont l'agence Jiji Press.
Shinozuka avait participé à son premier Paris-Dakar en 1986 --année du décès tragique de son fondateur Thierry Sabine--, lorsque la firme Mitsubishi s'était lancé dans le fameux rallye-raid. - L'info en continu https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.
00:00 Kanjiro Shinozuka, the first Japanese pilot to win the Paris-Dakar in 1997, died Monday at the age of 75 from a pancreas cancer, according to Japanese media, including the Jiji Press agency.
00:12 Shinozuka participated in his first Paris-Dakar in 1986, the year of the tragic death of his founder Thierry Sabine, when the Mitsubishi firm launched itself in the famous rally raid.
00:23 He finished third the following year and second in '88, in full dominance of the Peugeot 205.
00:30 His sacre finally intervened nine years later, in '97, with his French co-pilot Henri Magne, driving a 4X4 Pajero.
00:37 Originally from Tokyo, Kanjiro Shinozuka had started his career in the Japanese firm as a mechanic.
00:44 At the same time, he had begun a career as a pilot in the Japanese rally championship.
00:50 In love with Africa, the Japanese participated in the Dakar until 2007 despite a serious accident in 2003 that plunged him into a coma, ending on the podium twice, in 1998 and 2002.
01:01 He also won the Ivory Coast rally, with two victories in 1991 and 1992.
01:08 After 2008, he participated in solar car races at the Tokyo University of Tokyo.
