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Keiichi Tsuchiya
Japanese professional race car driver
Keiichi Tsuchiya (土屋圭市, Tsuchiya Keiichi, born January 30, ) 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.
In professional racing, he is a two-time 24 Hours of Le Mans class winner and the All Japan GT Championship runner-up.
Biography of barack obama References [ edit ]. Unlike many drivers who came from wealthy families or motorsport backgrounds, he honed his skills from street racing and became noted in the underground scene. FUJ 2 He also served as a stunt coordinator and stuntman on The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift , where he also made a cameo appearance.He is also known for touge driving.
The car he drives, a Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno, has become one of the most popular sports cars; the car is also known as "Hachi-Roku" in Japan (hachi-roku meaning "eight-six"); his car is also called "The Little Hachi that could." A 2-part video known as 'The Touge' produced by Pluspy (styled as +P) documents Tsuchiya's touge driving with his AE
He was a consultant for the popular manga and anime series, Initial D, of which the main character Takumi Fujiwara is a character which describes him.
He also served as a stunt coordinator and stuntman on The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, where he also made a cameo appearance.
Biography
Tsuchiya started his career through the Fuji Freshman series in Unlike many drivers who came from wealthy families or motorsport backgrounds, he honed his skills from street racing and became noted in the underground scene.
Racing career
- National championships
He would continue to take part in the Japanese Formula Three Championship, Japanese Touring Car Championship (JTCC), the latter while driving a Cosmo OilSierra Cosworth and Nissan Skyline GT-R (Team Taisan) in the Group A championships and later a Honda Civic in the Supertouring car championships.[1]
- Le Mans
He went on to score a class win and an 8th place overall at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Honda NSX.
In the same race in , this time in a Toyota GT-One, during the last hour while co-driver Ukyo Katayama was building up pace to the leading BMW V12 LMR he was forced into the grass by a backmarker privateer's BMW LMR, blowing the tire out.
Act 7 :. SUZ Ret. Act 24 :. In , Tsuchiya made his debut in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.They survived the ordeal and went on to score the fastest lap but were forced to settle for second.
- NASCAR
He has raced in NASCAR-sanctioned exhibition races at Suzuka Circuit (Suzuka Thunder ) and at Twin Ring Motegi Superspeedway for the NASCAR-sanctioned exhibition and NASCAR Grand National Division, AutoZone West Series races at the circuit, both named the Coca-Cola K.
Drifting career
When Tsuchiya was a freshman in circuit racing, he was about to get his racing license suspended because of the illegal racing he was recording for Pluspy. In the movie series Shuto Kousoku Trial, he advised street racers to leave the illegal racing scene if they want to become involved with professional racing.
After retirement
After his retirement, he was Team Director for both GT for one year and GT Class of ARTA JGTC Team until the team disbanded their GT operation at the end of the season.
TOK 1 Tsuchiya has been associated with various business ventures related to the automotive industry, including collaborations with car manufacturers and tuning companies. Arcade Stage 8 Infinity :. AID 4.He owned the aftermarket company Kei Office until he sold the business in the end of to form DG After quitting D1 in January , he co-founded amateur drifting series Drift Muscle, where he also worked as judge.
His trademark color is jade green, which appears on his overalls and helmet and is the adopted color of the former company. It was also the colour of the D1 Grand Prix Kei Office and DG-5 S15 Silvia of driver and employee Yasuyuki Kazama who also wears a suit similar in pattern.
He also hosts the video magazine "Best Motoring" which features road tests of new Japanese cars including a special section called "Hot Version" which focuses on performance-modified cars. He is a guest presenter in Video Option alongside fellow racing drivers Manabu Orido and Nobuteru Taniguchi, a monthly video magazine, similar to Hot Version except regularly covers the D1GP and its sister video magazine Drift Tengoku which deals purely with drifting.
He has been an editorial supervisor on the televised animeInitial D and Wangan Midnight. He also appeared in the semi biographical film Shuto Kousoku Trial 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 was also featured in the Super GT magazine show in Japan.
Keiichi tsuchiya biography of barack He also appears as an opponent in the Initial D The Arcade X Hot Version collaboration event along with his AE86 which was available to purchase as an aeroset in the customisation shop during the event. Stunt driving was also performed in Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, despite protests. He raced in the JGTC for several years, winning the title in He also served as a stunt coordinator and stuntman on The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift , where he also made a cameo appearance.His life in driving is parallel to that of the Initial D main character, Takumi, as both of them started exploring their local touge while doing regular deliveries for their family businesses. He makes a number of cameos in the series: in the First Stage, he briefly converses with Takumi's father, Bunta; in the Third Stage, a motorcycle rider wearing a similar racing suit overtakes Takumi as he was en route to an invitation battle with Ryosuke Takahashi; and in the Final Stage, he meets Takumi in person while the latter spectates a circuit race in the end credits.
The color of Tomo's racing suit from the Initial D 4th Stage is jade green and has a similar pattern to Tsuchiya's suit. He also made an appearance opposite Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson in a Motorworld in Japan special showing drifting competition in the mid s in Japan.
After , he sometimes appeared as a Formula One guest commentator in Japanese Fuji TV.
In , he made a cameo as a fisherman in the movie The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in which he served as a stuntman.[2][3]
In , he announced a joint venture with the King of Europe Drift ProSeries in order to create the King of Asia ProSeries.
He would also act as one of the main judges for several important races in the King of Europe ProSeries, being called in as a guest representative throughout the years.
Career summary
- Debut in Fuji Freshman series.
- – Ran selected entries in All Japan Touring Car championship.
- Fuji Freshman series race (Toyota AE86) – 6 wins
- All Japan Touring Car championship (Toyota AE86) 1st in Class 3
- Corolla Sprinter Cup – 2 podium places
- All Japan Touring Car championship (Honda Civic) – 1 win
- Toyota Cup – 1st overall
- All Japan Touring Car championship (BMW E30) – 3rd in Class 2
- Macau Guia race (BMW M3) – 4th overall
- All Japan F3 championship
- All Japan Touring Car championship (Ford Sierra Cosworth) – 1 win
- All Japan Touring Car championship (Ford Sierra Cosworth)
- Macau Guia race (Ford Sierra Cosworth)
- New Zealand Touring Car series (Toyota)
- All Japan F3 championship (Ralt-Mugen) – 10th overall
- All Japan Touring Car championship (Nissan Skyline GT-R) – 5th overall
- All Japan Touring Car championship (Nissan Skyline GT-R)
- All Japan Touring Car championship (Taisan Nissan Skyline GT-R) – 1 win
- Japan Endurance series (Honda Prelude) – 2nd Tsukuba 12 Hours
- All Japan GT championship (Porsche T) – 1 win
- All Japan Touring Car championship (Honda Civic)
- Suzuka km (Porsche T) – 1st in class, 2nd overall
- Le Mans 24 Hours (Honda NSX) – 18th overall
- All Japan GT championship (PorscheTRSR)
- All Japan Touring Car championship (Honda Civic)
- Suzuka km (Honda NSX) – 5th overall
- Tokachi 12 Hours (Honda NSX) – 1st overall
- Le Mans 24 Hours (Honda NSX) – 1st in class
- All Japan GT championship (Honda NSX) th overall
- Entered NASCAR Thunder Special race at Suzuka
- Le Mans 24 Hours (Honda NSX) – 3rd in class
- All Japan GT championship (Porsche /Dodge Viper)
- Fuji InterTec race (Toyota Chaser)
- Suzuka km (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
- 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.
- Le Mans 24 Hours (Toyota GT-One) – 2nd overall
- Le Mans 24 Hours (Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S) – 8th overall
- – Joined Team ARTA, racing an NSX once again in the All Japan GT championship.
- – Studied in Australia to complete inter-2 course.
Racing record
Complete Japanese Touring Car Championship (–) results
Complete Japanese Touring Car Championship (–) results
Complete JGTC/Super GT results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)