Career
Katayama began his Grand Prix career in 1964 with Suzuki. He also finished the 1967 season in fourth place in the 125cc championship. Katayama would later switch to cars, competing in domestic series mainly as Mazda"s factory driver until he retired at the end of 1990.
His previous visits to the race were in 1977 when he spectacularly rolled his Mazda RX-3 at Murray"s Corner on lap 103, and 1982 where he finished in 6th place again partnering Moffat.
