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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 ...
Steve Moore drifting his Nissan Silvia (S14) around Lydden Hill at King of Europe Round 3 (2014). Drifting is a driving technique where the driver purposely oversteers, with loss of traction, while maintaining control and driving the car through the entirety of a corner or a turn.
The M56 is a four-seat demo drift car complete with a 500 hp VK56DE 5.6L V8 engine. Forsberg Forsberg built this car in 2010 at his shop in Southern California as a four-seat ride-along vehicle. Forsberg custom designed and fabricated the roll cage so that all four bucket seats (Recaro SPG driver seat; SPG XL passenger seats) were able to fit ...
Fredric Aasbø checks tire pressures on his Rockstar Energy Drink Scion tC during 2015 competition. Aasbø started his career as a privateer racer driving a Toyota Supra.He won the 2007 and 2008 Nordic Drifting Championship titles competing in his native Scandinavia before making his U.S. debut at a global drifting invitational in 2008.
Formula DRIFT (also known as Formula D or FD) is an American drifting series, and was co-founded by Jim Liaw and Ryan Sage in 2003 as a sister company to Slipstream Global Marketing, the same partnership that introduced D1 Grand Prix to the United States.
D1NZ is a production car drifting series in New Zealand, a sanctioned championship under Motorsport New Zealand, the official FIA appointed governing body of motor-racing in New Zealand. [1] It began early in 2003 as a small competition consisting of several drifting teams from all over the country in order to organise and regulate Drifting ...
Benson Hsu is an ex-professional drifter from the United States who competed in various auto-racing competitions. Originally known for his black Nissan "Sileighty", he is one of the early Americans to be involved in the sport of drifting, starting in 1999.