Name: The Cars Keiichi Tsuchiya Ran Through in his Youth (Part 2 / Best MOTORing 2017)
Uploaded: 2020-04-24T21:03:29.513764+00:00
Duration: 894 s
Channel: GTChannel
Description: [ENTRY CAR] DRIFT KING AE86 STREET KOIZUMI AE86 LEVIN [DRIVER] DK Keiichi Tsuchiya MAX Manabu Orido [STAGE] GUNMA CYCLE SPORT CENTER (GUNSAI)

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ORC Clutch (Racing Concept Series 309D / Single / STD PP / Push / with Damper) - Toyota Corolla AE86 4A-G

[ENTRY CAR]
DRIFT KING AE86 STREET
KOIZUMI AE86 LEVIN

[DRIVER]
DK Keiichi Tsuchiya
MAX Manabu Orido

[STAGE]
GUNMA CYCLE SPORT CENTER (GUNSAI)

[ENTRY CAR] DRIFT KING AE86 STREET KOIZUMI AE86 LEVIN[DRIVER] DK Keiichi Tsuchiya MAX Manabu Orido[STAGE] GUNMA CYCLE SPORT CENTER (GUNSAI)

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The AE86 series of the Toyota Corolla Levin and Toyota Sprinter Trueno are small, front-engine/rear-drive models within the fifth generation Corolla range — marketed by Toyota from 1983 to 1987 in coupe and hatchback configurations. .

Toyota AE86: A legend in drifting

Keiichi Tsuchiya is a 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. He is also known for touge (mountain pass) driving. .

Keiichi Tsuchiya: Japan's preeminent "Drift King"

Nagano (長野市, Nagano-shi, pronounced [nagaꜜno ɕi]) is the capital and largest city of Nagano Prefecture, located in the Nagano Basin (Zenkoji Daira) in the central Chūbu region of Japan. Nagano is categorized as a core city of Japan. Nagano City is the highest prefectural capital in Japan, with an altitude of 371.4 meters (1,219 ft).

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Tsuchiya is well known for driving a Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno, and 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." .

Keiichi Tsuchiya's weapon of choice? The AE86.

Manabu "MAX" Orido (nickname Monkichi) is a Japanese racing driver who currently competes in the Super GT series for Team JLOC, driving a Lamborghini Gallardo, and in the D1GP for his own team, MAX★ORIDO Racing, driving a V8-powered Toyota 86. .

Manabu "MAX" Orido of MAX★ORIDO Racing

Initial D (Japanese: 頭文字D, Hepburn: Inisharu Dī) is a Japanese street racing manga series written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno. It was serialized in Weekly Young Magazine from 1995 to 2013, with the chapters collected into 48 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. As of July 2013, collected tankōbon volumes of the Initial D manga series sold 48 million copies of the very popular manga.

Initial D: A worlwide, beloved saga

While in production, the AE86 was a popular choice for showroom stock, Group A, and Group N racing, especially in rallying and circuit races. After production ended, many private teams continued to race the AE86, and it remains a popular choice for rallying and club races today. Part of the continued appeal of the AE86 for motorsports is its rear-drive configuration, not available in most newer lightweight coupes.

The AE86 in motorsports

The Gunsai Touge is located in Aramaki, Minakami, Tone District, Gunma 379-1411, Japan. The track has  around 6km worth of roads, popular among local racing enthusiasts. .

The Gunma Cycle Sports Center a.k.a. Gunsai Touge

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The rear wheel drive configuration, combined with the AE86's light weight (approximately 2300 lb (950–970 kg) curb weight), balance and relatively powerful (and easy to tune) 4A-GEU engine made it popular among the Japanese hashiriya (street racers in Japanese), many of whom raced in touge (mountain passes in Japanese) where the corners suited the AE86 best, especially on the downhill.

Why was the AE86 a choice vehicle for drifting? 

The main character of the anime and manga Initial D, Takumi Fujiwara, uses his father's AE86 Trueno GT-Apex Hatchback for racing and making his tofu deliveries. Also in Initial D, Takumi's friend, Itsuki Takeuchi, drives an AE85 Levin, initially mistaking it for an AE86. .

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