Keiichi Tsuchiya - "Drift King"

Keiichi Tsuchiya (,Tsuchiya Keiich), born January 30, 1957,Nagano, Japan) is a professional racing driver. He is also known as the "Drift King" otherwise as 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.

The car that he uses to drive has become one of the most popular sports cars these days, the Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno, the car also know as "Hachi-Roku" in Japan (hachi-roku meaning "eight six"); his car is also called "The Little Hachi that could". A video known as Pluspy documents Tsuchiya's touge driving with his AE86.

Tsuchiya started his racing career through amateur racing in the Fuji Freshman series, in 1977.
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 (JGTC).

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 owned the aftermarket suspension company Kei Office until he sold the business to Ogura Racing Clutch in 2005. His trademark color is Jade Green, which appears on his overall, helmet and is the adopted color of the company he used to own, Kei Office. Also was the color of the D1 Grand Prix Kei Office S15 Silvia of driver and employee Yasuyuki Kazama who also wears a suit similar in pattern.

He has been an editorial supervisor on the televised anime Wangan Midnight and Initial D. He appeared in episode 23 of Initial D as a special guest.

In 2006, he made a cameo as a fisherman in the movie The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Keiichi Tsuchiya is arguably the greatest drifter ever. There is only one “Drift King,” Keiichi Tsuchiya.

Sources : en.wikipedia.org/keiichitsuchiya

"Drift King"