405power

Está en ingles, pero merece la pena aprender un poco de este "mago":



Keiichi Tsuchiya began racing at a young age as most great drivers do. As he was learning to drive he began experimenting with the side brake or E-brake lever. Sliding the back end of the car out and counter steering was fun and taught him the basics of car control. Unlike many great racecar drivers he did not go to a racing school or have a rich family that was into the racing scene that could nurture his racing talents. He just had the basic passion to drive. Driving through local mountain roads he began to build a sense of where a car needs to be at each turn to achieve maximum speed through a corner. This not being a safe and smart way of learning to race he never the less learned much from running (Touge) mountain pass roads. From time to time he found himself off a cliff with his KPGC10 Skyline or against the side of a wall. Having snow in the wintertime further trained him to drive well on loose surface conditions enhancing again his car control skill. The more he drove on these roads and conditions of various road surfaces he began to get comfortable with sliding the car through a corner. He started to drift not because it was a quicker way around a corner but it was the most exciting way.

Enter the Drift King. Drifting a car through a corner is not the fastest way around most turns any racecar driver will tell you strait out. This is where Keiichi Tsuchiya was crowned the Dori Kin or Drift King. In Option drift contests; style and technique are evaluated for exhibition values. Lately contests have been judged on racing lines and setup for multiple corner drifting, this is more difficult. Back in 1977 Keiichi began his racing career driving many different cars in amateur racing series events. Racing these underpowered cars was difficult but again a great learning experience. Later Keiichi was picked up to drive the ADVAN sponsored AE86/1984 Corolla GT-S. During many races on a downhill corner he would drift the car and carry a better corner speed than his competitors. This technique is what made him the Drift King not as most believe that he was first in the drift scene. As he proved his style of driving his reputation grew. He is a racecar driver now and still takes to the mountains for illegal racing this also made his reputation grow. After videos featuring him and his persistent mountain running/Drifting his driver’s license was suspended! For a professional racecar driver this was embarrassing. Unknowingly this worked to his advantage, his fan base and fame began to expand. You could say that he is a rebel of some sort or because he was just a person who went from nowhere to success out of determination with no racing background. He still has a bond for an old car that he grew up racing, drifting, and winning with, the Toyota AE86. You can see this by his video series dedicated to this car that is called AE86 Club. Toyota itself also felt that he is the person to represent the car most and presented him a restored AE86 through TRD.

(Keiichi as a young fellow would go to Fuji speedway to watch skylines duke it out building him a foundation to get into the racing scene).

Driving History: Keiichi Tsuchiya

-Born January 1956
-1977 Debut in Fuji Freshman series.
-1977-1984 Ran selected entries in All Japan Touring Car championship.
-1984 Fuji Freshman series race (Toyota AE86)= 6 wins
-1985 All Japan Touring Car championship (Toyota AE86) 1st in Class 3
-1986 Corolla Sprinter Cup-2 podium places
-1987 All Japan Touring Car championship (Honda Civic)-1 win
-1988 Toyota Cup-1st overall
All Japan Touring Car championship (BMW M30)-3rd in Class 2
Macau Guia race (BMW M3)-4th overall
-1989 All Japan F3 championship
All Japan Touring Car championship (Ford Sierra Cosworth)-1 win
-1990 All Japan Touring Car championship (Ford Sierra Cosworth)
Macau Guia race (Ford Sierra Cosworth)
New Zealand Touring Car series (Toyota)
-1991 All Japan F3 championship (Ralt-Mugen)-10th overall
All Japan Touring Car championship (Nissan Skyline GT-R)-5th overall
-1992 All Japan Touring Car championship (Nissan Skyline GT-R)
-1993 All Japan Touring Car championship (Taisan Nissan Skyline GT-R)-1 win
Japan Endurance series (Honda Prelude)-2nd Tsukuba 12 Hours
-1994 All Japan GT championship (Porsche 911T)-1 win
All Japan Touring Car championship (Honda Civic)
Suzuka 1000kms (Porsche 911T)-1st in class, 2nd overall
Le Mans 24 Hours (Honda NSX)-18th overall
-1995 All Japan GT championship (Porsche911TRSR)
All Japan Touring Car championship (Honda Civic)
Suzuka 1000kms (Honda NSX)-5th overall
Tokachi 12 Hours (Honda NSX)-1st overall
Le Mans 24 Hours (Honda NSX)-1st in class
-1996 All Japan GT championship (Honda NSX)-13th overall
Entered NASCAR Thunder Special race at Suzuka
Le mans 24 Hours (Honda NSX)-3rd in class
-1997 All Japan GT championship (Porsche 911/Dodge Viper)
Fuji InterTec race (Toyota Chaser)
Suzuka 1000kms (Lark McLaren F1 GTR)-9th overall
Entered NASCAR Thunder Special race at Suzuka
Le Mans 24 Hours (Lark McLaren F1 GTR)-qualified 10th, retired from race
1998 All Japan Touring Car championship (Toyota Chaser)-7th overall
All Japan GT championship (Toyota Supra)-8th overall
Le Mans 24 Hours (Toyota GT-One)-9th overall
NASCAR at the California Speedway.
-1999 Japan Touring Car Championship(Advan Altezza Touring car).
-2000-2001 he joined team ARTA racing a NSX once again in the All Japan GT championship.

Keiichi Tsuchiya “Drive by Drift” “It is easy to make plans but difficult to carry them out”

Angu

realmente yo admiro a este tio, coje cualquier aparato desde un civic o un ae86 hasta los r34 o supra mas bestias y los hace volar! tiene una mano el tio que acojona al que lo ve sobre todo frenando o drifteando, encima se nota que disfruta conduciendo
ademas tiene un palmares envidiable como demuestra el podio en le mans.
la pena es que recientemente se ha retirado de la competicion profesional aunque seguira estando en el best motoring y el mundillo drift.
yo espero llegar a los 47 añazos k tiene el tio con la mitad de mano para conducir que tiene el. otra cosa que me da envidia de el es que conduzca el AE86 desde el dia que salio hasta hoy, y que tiene el suyo tunado a mango y le saca el 110% del rendimiento. le envidioooooo

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"I drift not because it is the fastest way around a corner but because it is the most exciting" Keiichi"Drift King"Tsuchiya

405power

No te preocupes que ya nos iremos a buscar uno a Portugal

Angu

o si no se busca uno en gran canaria que los debe de haber alguno por ahi, echa un ojo, lastima k solo sean levin por k a mi me mola mas el trueno

Toyota AE86 (fotos)

tambien hay algun link en el misma pag que puse que creo que puedes bajar de ahi initial D, digo creo por que yo con 56K ni intentarlo...

dios es k estoy enamorado de este cochee

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"I drift not because it is the fastest way around a corner but because it is the most exciting" Keiichi"Drift King"Tsuchiya

405power

Pues si...tenemos los misos gustos, yo también prefiero el Trueno.

Aunque a un Levin "hatch" no le hago ascos.

Ya suponía que en Canarias los hubiera, por la tradición que tienen en traer coches japoneses, pero también he leido que es casi más dificil traer un coche a la península desde allí que desde Alemania.

Pues mira...no sería mala idea empezar a buscar alguno.

no2addict

Un colega de aqui tiene un levin pero no hatchback, sino el otro, con unas llantas tipo drift, a ver si le echo fotos.

405power

no2addict...como está el tema de traerse uno de esos de Canarias???

Hay muy pocos?

ECKÔ

Vaya, que se puede decir del Dorikin que no sepa nadie ya.
Algunos datos de interes que he encontrado y que añado, con
tu permiso 405power

Nacio un 30 de Enero del 56 en Nagano ken, cerca de Tokyo.
Mide 167.5 cm y pesa 55 kg.
Anchura de los hombros 42 cm.
Diametro de su cuello 35.5cm.
Diametro de su pecho 88 cm.
Medida del antebrazo 55 cm.
Cintura 73 cm.
Cadera 87 cm.
Medida de sus piernas 67 cm.
Calza un 39, igual que yo! (A ver si se me pega algo... jaja!)

Su hobby es pasear al perro.
Comida preferida: Comida japo con sabor a soja y los fideos.
Comida que odia: La comida Francesa.
Marca del tabaco que fuma: Carlton Ultra Slims Mentol.
Su animal preferido: Los perros, grandes o pequeños, da igual.

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Quiero uno...

JoCKeR-RZ

Este tio es un makina!! Hace poco ke me aficionao a ver videos suyos y disfruto como un niño !! Ya me gustaria cuando sea mas mayor manejar coches como el Por cierto aver si es verdad lo del trueno !! seria la caña

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-DP-Studio...Donde el tuning y el diseño se unen !!-

405power

Bueno...mido lo mismo que él, así que no tendré problemas de altura para entrar en los MR2 y S2000.

Lo malo mi calzado, que con un 42, el punta tacón de Dori-Dori va a estar un poco jodidillo

P.D: Lo que se aprende con la cámara subjetiva de los pedales en los videos de Best Motoring.

no2addict

Pues yo he visto unos cuantos, no hay muchos, los que mas hay son como el que tiene el de aqui. Hace poco vi un levin hatchback rojo en venta con unas OZ muy guapo, pero es raro raro raro raro ver uno asi.

405power

Cuanto puede costar traer uno de esos?

Es que en otro foro me han comentado que... "preparemos pasta"

no2addict

Pues lo siento pero no tengo ni idea

405power

A ver si me entero de algunos precios para ir haciendome a la idea.

El Niño Tunero

La verdad q el tio es muy bueno. E visto unos cuantos videos suyos conduciones pepinos y los domina a la perfeccion y si ademas tiene ese palmares q se le puede pedir???

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