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Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing currently divided into three distinct classes: 125cc, Moto2 and MotoGP. The 125cc class uses a two-stroke engine while Moto2 and MotoGP use four-stroke engines. In 2010 the 250cc two-stroke was replaced...

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1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

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1995 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

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Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

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125cc Catalan Grand Prix

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Tomoko Igata (井形とも子, born October 30, 1965) was a Japanese Grand Prix

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing currently divided into three distinct classes: 125cc, Moto2 and MotoGP. The 125cc class uses a two-stroke engine while Moto2 and MotoGP use four-stroke engines. In 2010 the 250cc two-stroke was replaced...

motorcycle

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Road racing

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. She was one of a handful of females to race at Grand Prix level over the history of the Championships.

She competed in the 125cc All Japan Road Race Championship

All Japan Road Race Championship

The is the premiere motorcycle road racing championship in Japan. It is run by the Motorcycle Federation of Japan - the Japaneses affiliate of the FIM.-History:The MFJ was formed in 1961 and held its first motorcycle road race in 1967....

from 1991 to 1993, finishing in the Top 10 every year. Her best result was in 1992 when she finished 6th in the Championship. It was in this year that she also made her Grand Prix debut at Suzuka

Suzuka Circuit

, Suzuka Circuit for short, is a motorsport race track located in Ino, Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture, Japan and operated by Mobilityland Corporation, the subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd..-Introduction:...

as a wild card where she bested the treacherous wet track finishing 20th and capturing the attention of the media.

In 1994

1994 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

The 1994 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 46th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.-Season summary:1994 was the year in which Honda's Mick Doohan began to stamp his authority on the Grand Prix world. Honda's Longtime sponsor Rothmans left Honda to join Williams Renault in...

she signed up for a full 125cc World Championship with the FCC Technical Sports team racing a Honda

Honda

RS125. She obtained immediately two points at the first race in Australia and did an impressive race in Suzuka, but was injured in a crash at the Austrian Grand Prix and was replaced by her team-mate in Japanese championship Tomomi Manako

Tomomi Manako

is a Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle road racer who competed in the 125cc class from 1994 to 1998 on a Honda, and the 250cc class in 1999 on a Yamaha. He finished in the top three of the 125cc Championship for three consecutive years, narrowly missing out on the title in 1998.- Early career :He...

. She returned towards the end of season to finish 28th in the Championship.

She again competed in the 1995

1995 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

season and achieved a best place finish of 7th at the Czech Grand Prix

Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix

The Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix is a motorcycling event that is part of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. Before 1993, the race was known as the Czechoslovakian motorcycle Grand Prix...

after having also occupied the 5th place, the highest placing for a female in the history of the Championship. She ended the season in 20th.

Igata subsequently returned to Japanese racing in the 125cc class but without major success.

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