Tsuyoshi Tezuka

Who is Tsuyoshi Tezuka?

Tsuyoshi Tezuka is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Bee*Racing.

He developed a love for cars from an early age, his first was a Toyota Crown but to start with he was more interested in drag racing than drift. That soon changed as he found out how much it cost to make a fast drag car. One of his co-workers were interested in drifting and he decided to give it a go, even though his car was automatic and everyone said it would not work. He got hooked and found out how expensive drifting was often spending more than $800 a month on petrol. He used many different cars over this time from a Nissan Laurel, Toyota Mark II and Toyota Chaser to a Toyota Cresta, though all of them were 4-door. He chose these cars as he likes big displacement and big power, also the sound of straight 6 engines.

He works as the manager at a used car dealership called Kids Heart in the Aichi Prefecture. It is well known largely for the Nissan approved conversion of the Sileighty and many of the cars it sells are sought after by racers. He also runs a car graphics shop and website which he set up called T2 Koubou, as he enjoys working on computers and makes his own websites.