TC2000 Drift

Tsukuba Circuit is one of the most well known race tracks in Japan. Despite the fact that it is too small to host big racing series like Super GT and Formula Nippon, the track is still recognized by enthusiasts worldwide. Tsukuba is a tuner's track. It is the proving ground for all of Japan's biggest time attack players as well as the OEM manufacturers. Tsukuba also used to play a prominent role in the drift scene. For a few years, Tsukuba was the site of the D1GP championship round as well as other large scale drift events like the Advan Drift Meeting. A couple years ago, however, D1 took Tsukuba off the schedule as they expanded to larger courses like FISCO and Suzuka. Tsukuba was still host to an occasional event, though most of them were held on the gymkhana course and not on the main 2000 course.

It looks like in 2008 Tsukuba will be getting back some of its lost drift action. Although Tsukuba is not on the main D1 schedule for 2008, D1 Street Legal will be holding its final round at Tsukuba in December. In addition there are several other large-scale drift events scheduled to take place at Tsukuba this year. As I mentioned in the previous post, TK club includes both grip and drift run groups at its events. The drift group included about 50 cars. most of them belonging to privateers from the Kanto area.

This event had a partiularly strong AE86 showing. Most of the 86's were privateer-owned street cars, sans graphics, aero parts, and wild paint. The pit areas looked like vintage wheel museums, with piles of Longchamp, SSR Formula Mesh, Watanabe, and Hayashi Street CR wheels - all in negative offset and small diameter.

Making 2008 look like 1998.

Another AE86 Trueno from Ukiya Shoukai .

Of course there were Silvia's also, like this pink S15 and sparkly-terrific S14 from Garage Miralda in Chiba.

This Ibaraki-based JZX100 Chaser was throwing down some of the most aggressive angle of the day.

Now for some action shots-

Also having some of the day's most impressive moves was this ground-scraping 180SX.

S15 and FD tandem. This was one of my favorite shots of the day.

Few things sound better than shredding tires and a naturally aspirated 4AGE screaming at 8000 rpm.

Immense angle from the JZX100 going into the first hairpin.

I can't wait to see what the rest of 2008 has in store for drifting at Tsukuba. Check out the complete photo album here .

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