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Ai Ogura

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2001 (25 years old)
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Asian

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Height
168cm

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56kg

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Ai Ogura (Japanese: 小椋 藍, Hepburn: Ogura Ai; born 26 January 2001) is a Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle racer who competes in the MotoGP class for Trackhouse MotoGP Team. He was crowned 2024 Moto2 World Champion with MT Helmets – MSi, being the first Japanese rider to win a world championship in fifteen years since Hiroshi Aoyama in 2009.

He previously competed in Moto2 and Moto3 for Idemitsu Honda Team Asia, finishing as championship runner-up in 2022. Ogura is the first Asia Talent Cup graduate to make it to MotoGP, alongside Somkiat Chantra.

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Early career
Ogura was born in Kiyose, Japan. The son of a motorcycle enthusiast, he rode a pocketbike for the first time at the age of three, and began participating in races at four years old. He stepped up to mini-bikes after turning nine.

He was selected to participate in the second ever Asia Talent Cup season in 2015 at 14 years of age, where he clinched a win and three podiums.

For 2016, Ogura joined the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup and finished on the podium in one race, ending 11th overall. He was given a second year in the Asia Talent Cup where he finished as runner-up. After his successful period in the Asia Talent Cup, he was given a seat in the Asia Talent Team by Honda in the FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship, winning one race in Jerez. Ogura also took part in the 2017 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, earning five podiums in total, including two wins, despite missing several races due to an injury.

In 2018, Ogura participated in his last FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship season, where he earned five podiums and a single win in Valencia.
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