Wednesday, November 15, 2006

AE 86

今晚老弟兴奋地介绍 Hachi-roku为什么被使用。。

呵呵,果然是有趣的!了了没?
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From Wikipedia:

Keiichi Tsuchiya (土屋圭市, Tsuchiya Keiichi, born January 30, 1956, Nagano, Japan) is a professional racing driver. He is also known as the "Drift King" otherwise as Dorikin (ドリキン) for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events, and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport. He is also known for Tōge (mountain pass) driving. The car he is most famous for driving is a Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno (a.k.a. the "Hachi-Roku" in Japan (hachi-roku meaning "eight six")). A video known as Pluspy documents Tsuchiya's Tōge driving with his AE86.

[edit] Biography
Tsuchiya started amateur racing in 1977 in the "Fuji Freshman" series. Unlike many drivers who came a traditional route via wealthy families or previous motorsport background, he honed his skills from street racing becoming an underground legend. He would continue to take part in the Japanese Formula 3, Japanese Touring Car championship, the latter whilst driving a Nissan Skyline GT-R in the Group A championship and later a Honda Civic in the Supertouring car championship. He went on to score a class win and a top 10 place at the 1995 24 hours of Le Mans in a Honda NSX. In 1999 of the same race this time in a Toyota GT-One during the last hour whilst co driver Ukyo Katayama was building up pace to the leading BMW LMR he was forced into the grass by a backmarker privateer's BMW LMP blowing the tire out. They survived the ordeal and went on to score the fastest lap but were forced to settle for second. At 47 years of age, Tsuchiya announced his retirement from professional racing. His last race was round eight at Suzuka for the Japanese GT championship race. After his retirement, he remained in racing and is now an Official D1 Grand Prix Judge and was Team Director for both GT500 (for one year) and GT300 Class of ARTA JGTC Team until the team disbanded their GT300 operation at the end of the 2005 season. He used to own the aftermarket suspension company Kei Office until he sold the business to Ogura Racing Clutch in 2005. 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, a monthly video magazine, similar to Hot Version, which also regularly covers the D1GP and sister video magazine Drift Tengoku which deals purely on drifting.

He has been an editorial supervisor on the televised anime Initial D,and appeared in episode 23 as a special guest. He also appeared in the semi biographical film Shuto Kousoku Trial 2,3,4 and Max and also presents in the Super GT magazine show in Japan.

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