Noboru Ueda

Aichi is Toyota country, so motorsport culture is basically in the water there, and you can feel how that environment probably shaped him young. I don't pretend to be a deep-cut road racing historian, but there's something genuinely compelling about anyone who straps onto a bike and throws themselves around a circuit at those speeds — it's not a career you fall into by accident, it's a deliberate, daily negotiation with risk. Thirteen Grand Prix wins in the 125cc class and a second life as a commentator and team boss feel fitting; some competitors speak loudest on the asphalt, and Ueda reads like exactly that type.

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Noboru "Nobby" Ueda is a Japanese former motorcycle racer born on July 23, 1967, in Akabane (now Tahara), Aichi Prefecture, Japan. He competed as a professional motorcycle racer and is documented in international reference sources including Wikidata. He debuted in 1989, raced exclusively in the 125cc class of the Grand Prix world championship, taking 13 wins and 39 podiums in 160 starts, and later became a MotoGP TV commentator and head of his own team, TEAM NOBBY.

Name (English)

Noboru Ueda

Name (Japanese)

上田昇

Reading

うえだ のぼる

Born

July 23, 1967 (age 59)

Origin

Tahara, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Motorcycle Racer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Goat

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8A%E7%94%B0%E6%98%87
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1627040

Tags

• From Aichi Prefecture
• Motorcycle Racer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.