Tomiko Yoshikawa

[3][better source needed] Aged 20, Yoshikawa received an invitation from the brother-in-law of a motor racing driver to participate in an amateur event at the Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture and went on to visit the track every weekend.

[1][5] Yoshikawa did one race in 1981 at Suzuka (part of the 1981 Japanese Formula 3 Championship [jp]) and finished 16th in a Team Equip-fielded Oscar T3B-Toyota vehicle and went unclassified in that year's points standings.

Yoshikawa achieved a career-high finish in the series with tenth place and eight points acculmated in the 1983 Japanese Formula 3 Championship [jp] over four races in a Hayashi 320-Toyota entry.

[4] Yoshikawa did not finish the 1988 Suzuka 1000km (part of the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship in a Hiro HRS3-Mazda car she shared with fellow Japanese Kouzou Okumura due to an accident.

[2] Driving a Category 1-category Chamberlain Engineering Spice SE89C-Ford Cosworth with Jun Harada and Kenta Shimamura, Yoshikawa and her co-drivers were classified 15th overall and eighth in class.

[6] She then failed to finish the 1993 24 Hours of Le Mans in Courage Compétition's C30LM-Porsche entry alongside Alessandro Gini and Carlos Moran due to an tyre failure that caused an accident.