Tomiko Yoshikawa
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 |
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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
- ↑ 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 )
- ↑ Japanese Formula 3 Championship 1983
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Yoshikawa, Tomiko |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 吉川 と み 子 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese racing car driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1954 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ōharu |