is a Japanese former racing driver from Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture.
Racing career Terada began his racing career in a Honda S600寺田陽次郎公式ウェブサイト » 寺田陽次郎について in 1969, before he was taken on as Mazda's factory driver, a position he held through the 1990s including participating in the World Sportscar Championship and All Japan Sports Prototype Championship.
Terada also took class wins at the 24 Hours of Daytona on two occasions, including in the Mazda RX-7's debut race in 1979, scoring a GTU class win at fifth place overall.World Sports Racing Prototypes – IMSA 1979 The other occasion was a fourth place overall finish and a GTO class win in 1982.World Sports Racing Prototypes – IMSA 1982
Terada is known for holding the record for the second most participations in the 24 Hours of Le Mans without an overall win (behind Bob Wollek), having run on 29 occasions (28 of which were consecutive) since . He is also third behind Henri Pescarolo and Bob Wollek for the drivers with the most participations. He scored class victories at the event in 1983, 1988, 1990 and 1996, while his best overall finish was seventh in .
Business interests When he is not racing, Terada runs the Tokyo-based AutoExe () tuning business, specialising in tuning parts and accessories for Mazda. Welcome AutoExe Page Nihon Car.com:Mazda Roadster by Autoexe, HDTV and instructs on driving at NATS (Nihon Automobile High Technical School) 学園の10大ポイント
Family Terada is the father of voice actress Haruhi Nanao.
24 Hours of Le Mans results Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Mazda Automotive Yasuhiro Okamoto Harukuni Takahashi Sigma MC74-Mazda S3.0 155 NC NC Mazdaspeed Hiroshi Fushida Win Percy Mazda RX-7 253i IMSAGTO 25 DNF DNF Mazdaspeed Takashi Yorino Allan Moffat Mazda RX-7 254i IMSAGTX 282 14th 6th Mazdaspeed Takashi Yorino Yoshimi Katayama Mazda 717C C Jr. 302 12th 1st Mazdaspeed Pierre Dieudonné Takashi Yorino Mazda 727C C2 261 20th 6th Mazdaspeed Yoshimi Katayama Takashi Yorino Mazda 737C C2 264 24th 6th Mazdaspeed Yoshimi Katayama Takashi Yorino Mazda 757 GTP 59 DNF DNF Mazdaspeed Yoshimi Katayama Takashi Yorino Mazda 757 GTP 34 DNF DNF Mazdaspeed David Kennedy Pierre Dieudonné Mazda 757 GTP 337 15th 1st Mazdaspeed Marc Duez Volker Weidler Mazda 767 GTP 339 12th 3rd Mazdaspeed Yoshimi Katayama Takashi Yorino Mazda 767B GTP 304 20th 1st Mazdaspeed Oreca Pierre Dieudonné Takashi Yorino Mazda 787 C2 346 8th 8th Mazdaspeed Oreca Maurizio Sandro Sala Takashi Yorino Mazda MXR-01 C1 124 DNF DNF Lotus Sport Chamberlain Engineering Peter Hardman Thorkild Thyrring Lotus Esprit S300 GT 92 DNF DNF Team Artnature Franck Fréon Pierre de Thoisy Mazda RX-7 IMSAGTS 250 15th 2nd D.T.R. Mazdaspeed Jim Downing Franck Fréon Kudzu DG-3-Mazda WSC 282 7th 3rd Mazdaspeed Jim Downing Franck Fréon Kudzu DLM-Mazda LMP2 251 25th 1st Team D.T.R Mazdaspeed Jim Downing Franck Fréon Kudzu DLM-4-Mazda LMP 263 17th 6th Courage Compétition Franck Fréon Olivier Thévenin Courage C36-Porsche LMP1 300 16th 5th Autoexe Motorsport Franck Fréon Robin Donovan Autoexe LMP99-Ford LMP 74 DNF DNF Rachel Welter Richard Balandras Sylvain Boulay WR LMP-Peugeot LMP675 266 26th 2nd Gerard Welter Stéphane Daoudi Jean-René de Fournoux WR LMP01-Peugeot LMP675 245 19th 2nd Autoexe Motorsport John Fergus Jim Downing Autoexe (WR) LMP-02-Mazda LMP675 5 DNF DNF Rachel Welter Olivier Porta Gavin Pickering WR LMP01-Peugeot LMP675 235 NC NC Rachel Welter Patrice Roussel Olivier Porta WR LM2001-Peugeot LMP2 270 26th 2nd Rachel Welter Patrice Roussel William Binnie WR LMP04-Peugeot LMP2 233 NC NC Binnie Motorsports William Binnie Allen Timpany Lola B05/42-Zytek LMP2 326 13th 2nd T2M Motorsport Robin Longechal Yutaka Yamagishi Dome S101.5-Mader LMP2 56 DNF DNF Terramos Hiroki Katoh Kazuho Takahashi Courage LC70-Mugen LMP1 224 NC NC
References
External links Official website Terada's blog page AutoExe