Photo: Derral Chen from Los Angeles, U.S.A / CC BY-SA 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
There's something genuinely cool about a guy who doesn't just build the machine — he gets in it and drives it, hard. Motoharu Kurosawa, born in 1940 in Hitachi, Ibaraki, came up in a city shaped by factories and the sea, the kind of place where you learn early that engines aren't magic, they're craft. Being both an engineer and a racing driver isn't a quirky hobby combo — it's a whole philosophy: you understand the thing deeply enough to push it to its limit, and then you actually do. Leo, born in the Year of the Dragon, which honestly tracks — that's not a personality built for half-measures. Most people pick a lane, either the garage or the cockpit. He said why not both, and I respect that more than I can properly articulate.
Overview
Motoharu Kurosawa is a Japanese engineer and racing driver born on August 6, 1940, in Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. He is notable for combining a technical career in engineering with active participation in motor racing. Further biographical details are not publicly available.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Motoharu Kurosawa
- Name (Japanese)
- 黒澤元治
- Reading
- くろさわ もとはる
- Born
- August 6, 1940 (age 85)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Dragon
- Origin
- Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan
- Occupation
- Engineer / Racing Driver
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BB%92%E6%BE%A4%E5%85%83%E6%B2%BB
Frequently asked questions
When was Motoharu Kurosawa born?
Born August 6, 1940 (age 85).
Where is Motoharu Kurosawa from?
Motoharu Kurosawa is from Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan.
What does Motoharu Kurosawa do?
Motoharu Kurosawa works as Engineer, Racing Driver.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.