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Keiichi Tsuchiya (土屋圭市, Tsuchiya Keiichi, born January 30, 1956) is a Japanese professional race car driver. He is known as the Drift King ( ドリキン , Dorikin ) for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport .
The D1 Grand Prix (D1グランプリ, D1 guranpuri), abbreviated as D1GP and subtitled Professional Drift, is a production car drifting series from Japan. After several years of hosting amateur drifting contests, Daijiro Inada, founder of Option magazine and Tokyo Auto Salon, and drifting legend, Keiichi Tsuchiya hosted a professional level drifting contest in 1999 and 2000 to feed on the ever ...
Hyundai partnered with Japanese racing legend Keiichi Tsuchiya, otherwise known as "Drift King," for a special edition Ioniq 5 N.. The Ioniq 5 N DK Edition includes a set of 12-inch forged wheels ...
The series was originally subtitled "Drift King", after the trademark nickname of street racing and professional racing driver Keiichi Tsuchiya who is featured in the first Shuto Kousoku Trial episodes and endorsed the game with, then team manager, Masaki Bandoh of Bandoh Racing Project.
The D stands for "Drift." ... The upstart Korean brand has enlisted Keiichi Tsuchiya, the so-called “Drift King”— an accomplished Tokyo street and professional driver and two-time Le Mans ...
Tsuchiya, 68, is a legend known best for popularizing both drifting and the AE86. He also won his class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice and came second overall in 1999.
Keiichi Tsuchiya, known as the "Drift King" (ドリフトキング, Dorifuto Kingu), became particularly interested in Takahashi's drift techniques. Tsuchiya began practicing his drifting skills on the mountain roads of Japan, and quickly gained a reputation amongst the racing crowd. In 1987, several popular car magazines and tuning garages ...
Option Video has always covered drifting, even hosting one of the first drift contests in 1989 with Keiichi Tsuchiya called the Ikaten. Option would continue to cover drift events especially their own Ikaten, until in October 2000, they would introduce the D1 Grand Prix which appears exclusively on the videos.