Tomoko Igata
Tomoko Igata (Japanese井形 とも子, Igata Tomoko, born October 30, 1965 in Japan ) is a former Japanese motorcycle racer.
Tomoko Igata is that motorcycle racing driver, the best ever placement and the most points won in the 125cc class of the MotoGP World Championship. She enrolled in 1995 at the Czech Grand Prix in Brno seventh place in the class up to 125 cc.
Igata played from 1991 to 1993 motorcycle racing Japanese road championship in the class up to 125 cm ². In this championship, she landed regularly in the top ten. Her best result was in 1992, sixth place in the championship. This year, her first assignment was in the Motorcycle World Championship. They started at their home Grand Prix at Suzuka with a wildcard and landed on the 20th Place.
In the years 1994 and 1995 Tomoko Igata took each part on Honda RS 125 for the FCC Technical Sports team at the World Cup. In 1994 she was replaced after an injury at the Australian Grand Prix by Tomomi Manako. She returned late in the season and was still 28th in the championship.
1995 was their most successful year. At the Grand Prix of Czech Republic in Brno, she was seventh., The best result in the women in this class ever reached. In the championship, the Japanese were a total of 20, the best result of a woman in this class.
She then moved back into the Japanese 125 cc Championship, but without further success.