Tag: D1GP

Video: Orido with his S13 180SX

This video of a (very) young Manabu Orido just got posted on Youtube. In the video you can see him do a really bad run (offroading would be better term for it) but his second run is almost flawless. Okay, compare that to todays standards and this really feels like watching D1GP in slowmotion! But…




In memoriam: Atsushi Kuroi

Most people already read or heard the news today: the D1GP drifter Atsushi Kuroi died three days ago in a motorcycle accident. He was one of the early drifting pioneers and his professional drifting career began in the first season of D1GP (2001) when he entered it with his well known OneVia S13. He was…




Hilarious: D1GP/D1SL Arm Wrestling

This video of D1GP/D1SL the drivers doing an arm wrestling match made me grin big time: Big LOL @ Naoki Nakamura who even fails to win when using both arms! ๐Ÿ˜€




Hilarious: Nomuken shows his other driving skills!

You all knew Ken Nomura was able to drift himself to a third place in the D1GP this year, but what you didn’t know was that he has a much wider range of driving skills! So what else can he do then? Well, parallel drift parking (30 cm space at each side of the car),…




Yoshinori Koguchi immitating Masato Kawabata?

If this was an attempt to pull off the same trick as Kawabata at Okayama, it didn’t work out the same way for Yoshinori Koguchi. At least he saved the car, didn’t hit anything and could continue his lines. Would have been wicked if he actually pulled that one off! (???)




WTF: Masato Kawabata’s cornering

When I saw this video the first time I thought the video was about Masato Kawabata’s 180SX RPS13 spinning while initiating the drift. But then all of a sudden the WTF!? moment was there! Amazing cornering abilities! ?(ยด?`)/ Masato Kawabata ddi this in the fourth round of the D1GP in Okayama where he received the…