Tomiko Yoshikawa

The Porsche 962C GTi of Tomiko Yoshikawa, Jun Harada and Masahiko Kondō at the 1994 Le Mans 24-hour race

Tomiko Yoshikawa ( Japanese 吉川 と み 子 , Yoshikawa Tomiko ; born March 10, 1954 in Ōharu in Aichi Prefecture ) is a former Japanese car driver .

Career

Tomiko Yoshikawa was the first Japanese woman to compete in the Le Mans 24-hour race . Yoshikawa drove in the Japanese Formula 3 Championship in the 1980s . She achieved her best placement in the championship in 1983 with tenth place overall. From 1989 until the end of her racing career in 2005, she competed in GT and sports car races.

She competed four times at Le Mans, but never made it into the ranking of the classed. She was also entered several times in the 1000 km race in Suzuka , with the best result in the final classification in 1992 when she was seventh overall.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1992	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C	Jun Harada	Kenta Shimamura	not classified
1993	Courage Compétition	Courage C30LM	Carlos Moran	Alessandro Gini	failure	accident
1994	Ada Engineering Ltd.	Porsche 962C GTI	Jun Harada	Masahiko Kondo	not classified
1995	SARD Co. Ltd.	Sard MC8-R	Alain Ferté	Kenny Acheson	failure	Clutch damage

Web links

Commons : Tomiko Yoshikawa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Tomiko Yoshikawa at Racing Sports Cars
• Tomiko Yoshikawa at the Driver Database
• Image: Tomiko Yoshikawa

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 彼女 た ち の ス ト ー リ ー 吉川 と み 子 さ ん （51） レ ー シ ン グ ド ラ イ バ ー . In: Chūnichi Shimbun . March 20, 2005 (Japanese). Online ( Memento from August 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Japanese Formula 3 Championship 1983