Takuma SatoTakuma Sato is one of Jordan Grand Prix's two drivers in the 2002 Formula One World Championship.Only six years ago, Takuma Sato was a teenaged bicycle racer in Japan, dreaming that his two-wheeled chain-driven mount was a powerful racing car. Now that dream has become reality. In 1996, Sato scraped together what money he had to buy a kart and, the following year, to enter Honda's Suzuka Racing School scholarship. He won the prize, a fully paid drive in the 1998 All-Japan Formula 3 Championship, but passed it up in order to pursue his desire of reaching Formula One. To do that he had to go to Europe. By 2001, Takuma Sato started the season as clear favourite for the British F3 championship, with good reason. He dominated the championship and broke the record for the number of wins in the British F3 Championship with 12 out of 13 possible victories, as well as first place in the Marlboro Masters of F3 at Zandvoort and the International race supporting the British Grand Prix. Takuma Sato ended his Formula 3 career on a high when he won the Macau Grand Prix in November 2001, taking victory in both the preliminary qualifying event and the main race. This provided further evidence of the outstanding talent which earned him a seat in Formula One with Jordan Grand Prix in 2002. The Australian Grand Prix was Takuma Sato's first race in Formula One. 3. People in the Jordan team
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