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Tetsuta Nagashima ( born 2 July 1992) is a Japanese motorcycle racer. He was the All Japan GP-Mono champion in 2011.
A regular in the Japanese championship, Nagashima was second in the J-GP3 category in 2012 and sixth in J-GP2 at the helm of a TSR in 2013. It was with this bike with which he made his World Championship debut at the Japanese Grand Prix, with the JiR Team; he finished the race in 20th position. This experience would prove to be critical, as Nagashima was selected to race for the team full-time when compatriot Kohta Nozane elected not to compete across the 2014 season. After coming second in Moto2™ in the FIM CEV Repsol in 2016 and taking a first win in the series, Nagashima moved up to the Moto2™ World Championship in 2017 with Teluru SAG Team. With some solid finishes under his belt, he switched to Idemitsu Honda Team Asia in the class for 2018 and claimed eight point scoring finishes. The Japanese rider will be aiming for more top ten results as he moves to the SAG Team for 2019.