Keiichi Tsuchiya
Race car driver, Organization founder
1956 –
Who is Keiichi Tsuchiya?
Keiichi Tsuchiya is a professional race car driver. He is also known as the "Drift King" 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 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; his car is also called "The Little Hachi that could." A video known as Pluspy documents Tsuchiya's touge driving with his AE86. He also is a consultant for one of the popular comic books, "Initial D". "Takumi" is a character which describes him.
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- Born
- Jan 30, 1956
Tōbu, Nagano - Nationality
- Japan
- Profession
- Employment
- D1 Grand Prix
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on July 23, 2013
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