FIRST JAPANESE (TRANS)AMA Win!!

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Edited Date/Time 7/5/2022 10:11am
Did some research and Jo Shimoda his win is the first Japanese (TRANS) AMA win! He wrote history!
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bichwolf 7/2/2022 3:36pm
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Fantastic!!!
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Hcallz5 7/2/2022 3:54pm
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Wait Jo is trans?
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smee113 7/2/2022 4:51pm
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Wasn't Chuck Sun Japanese?
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MXMattii 7/2/2022 5:06pm
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smee113 wrote:
Wasn't Chuck Sun Japanese?
His AMA documents showed: Sherwood, OR, United States, maybe distant relatives?
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Shimoda was awesome today..... Glad to see him take his first (and historic) win.
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Jo is awesome and every time I see him charging through the pack I always have the Jo Shimoda song in my head.
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DJB 7/2/2022 10:04pm
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Didn’t world champ Akira Watanabe win a Trans Ama race ?
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TG130 7/2/2022 10:33pm
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DJB wrote:
Didn’t world champ Akira Watanabe win a Trans Ama race ?
Watanabe won a moto at a Trans AMA event back in 1976. IIRC he tied Roger for the overall win, but lost out on time.

Same thig happened with Masuda at the USGP at Mid Ohio in 1977. Tied Rahier for the overall win, but took second on time.
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DJB wrote:
Didn’t world champ Akira Watanabe win a Trans Ama race ?
TG130 wrote:
Watanabe won a moto at a Trans AMA event back in 1976. IIRC he tied Roger for the overall win, but lost out on time. Same...
Watanabe won a moto at a Trans AMA event back in 1976. IIRC he tied Roger for the overall win, but lost out on time.

Same thig happened with Masuda at the USGP at Mid Ohio in 1977. Tied Rahier for the overall win, but took second on time.
Watanabe finished second on two or maybe three occasions. But he isn't registered as winner on memotocross.fr and that is mostly a very solid source!
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Hcallz5 wrote:
Wait Jo is trans?
No, the AMA is....
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Hcallz5 wrote:
Wait Jo is trans?
blockhead17 wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2022/07/03/557889/s1200_3483FD83_B52D_4DB4_BB4E_64A2CF69BC37.jpg[/img]

Haha. Funny.
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Magoofan 7/4/2022 12:05am
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Hcallz5 wrote:
Wait Jo is trans?
blockhead17 wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2022/07/03/557889/s1200_3483FD83_B52D_4DB4_BB4E_64A2CF69BC37.jpg[/img]

"She" needs some bolt ons....
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Bingslayer 7/4/2022 2:35am
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Hcallz5 wrote:
Wait Jo is trans?
blockhead17 wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2022/07/03/557889/s1200_3483FD83_B52D_4DB4_BB4E_64A2CF69BC37.jpg[/img]

Magoofan wrote:
"She" needs some bolt ons....
I like joe, they are my favourite riders in the 250 classes.
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Hcallz5 wrote:
Wait Jo is trans?
blockhead17 wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2022/07/03/557889/s1200_3483FD83_B52D_4DB4_BB4E_64A2CF69BC37.jpg[/img]

jbrownmxr wrote:
Haha. Funny.
It's ok to have a sense of humor, don't let one slice of society take that away from us. We must retain the ability to laugh at ourselves and others.
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TerryB 7/4/2022 9:46am
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smee113 wrote:
Wasn't Chuck Sun Japanese?
Chuck is a born and raised American. Jo is a foreigner who came to the US to race, like Kenny, or the Lawrence brothers, etc. He only spoke English about as well as your typical high school graduate, just a year ago.
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