Keiichi Tsuchiya, Ollie Marriage & Steve Sutcliffe does Gymkhana in GT86

[ichitaka05]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJb52YYfy1A"]King of Drift: Keiichi Tsuchiya drives the Toyota GT86 - YouTube[/ame]

by: Toyota Blog

Race “Drift King” Keiichi Tsuchiya in a GT86

July 20th, 2012 Oliwer Kmiecik

Want to prove your driving skills in a Toyota GT86? Then we would like to offer you the perfect opportunity…
With the launch of the Toyota GT86 well under way, we’ve discovered a brand new sport that will give you the chance to race our new car against the clock.

Called Drift Sprint, we developed the challenge with the help of “Drift King” Keiichi Tsuchiya, who joined us earlier this year to approve the course on which you will compete.
Our track has also been fine tuned with the help of Autocar’s Steve Sutcliffe and Top Gear Magazine’s Ollie Marriage – both highly capable drivers.
As our video shows, the idea is simple. Racing against clock, you’ll need a combination of car control and raw speed to complete the course as quickly as you can.

From a standing start, you’ll need to accelerate hard, and then complete a full 360 degree lap of each of the three “barrels” placed between you and the finish line.

To post a qualifying time, one of the barrels must be lapped in the opposite direction of the other two.
Our drivers all used slightly different techniques to post a competitive time, but as you’ll see in the video, each of them chose to drift the car around the three obstacles, turning it as quickly as possible.
Our film reveals the winner… But do you think you could go faster? As part of an exclusive competition, we’d like to offer you the opportunity to try.
We will be revealing full details over the next couple of weeks – but if you’d like to put your hand up for a space at the event, follow the instructions below.

For your chance to prove your skills, simply use the comments box at the bottom of this page to tell us what approach you would take to deliver the fastest Drift Sprint time. The email adress you use to register to leave a comment is the email we will use to contact you.
Your email address will not be publicly displayed.
Please don’t include your contact details in your comment, we will not publish personal details.
The date for the event is provisionally set for September.

[mezdup]

Keiichi Tsuchiya has been the Drift King since Jeremy Clarkson had a Jheri curl. The people at Toyota UK put him in a GT 86 and had him do some old-school Gymkhana against a couple of autojournos.

So how does the Drift King, the host of Best Motoring, get on with the supposed successor to his legendary Hachi Roku when it comes to pre-Ken Block gymkhana? He handles the handbrake spins pretty well, even though Ollie Marriage of Top Gear Magazine gets a faster time.

http://jalopnik.com/5927744/the-drif...ana-in-a-gt-86
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJb52YYfy1A"]King of Drift: Keiichi Tsuchiya drives the Toyota GT86 - YouTube[/ame]

[AJUSA.com]

Drift sprint?

[denkigrve]

Was gonna post this, but Ichitaka is a ninja and beat me to it.

Thanks Ichi, fun video.

[7thgear]

for fucks sake mang

these cars are made out of paper thin metal and a relativly soft coat of paint, this aint a benz

DONT SIT ON THE FUCKING CAR

fucking clowns

>____>

anyone sit/lean on my car is gonna get a kick in the face, and i don't care if you're Dori Dori, Chuck Norris or fucking Batman.

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by 7thgear

for fucks sake mang

these cars are made out of paper thin metal and a relativly soft coat of paint, this aint a benz

DONT SIT ON THE FUCKING CAR

fucking clowns

>____>

anyone sit/lean on my car is gonna get a kick in the face, and i don't care if you're Dori Dori, Chuck Norris or fucking Batman.

Technically, they're sitting on the bumpers... so it's not fully sitting on the metal lol

Anyways, I think we'll see more of those sadly...

iirc I saw some dude was sitting on the roof of the GT86 in FB Scion FR-S group page

[denkigrve]

Originally Posted by 7thgear

for fucks sake mang

these cars are made out of paper thin metal and a relativly soft coat of paint, this aint a benz

DONT SIT ON THE FUCKING CAR

fucking clowns

>____>

anyone sit/lean on my car is gonna get a kick in the face, and i don't care if you're Dori Dori, Chuck Norris or fucking Batman.

At the car show last weekend some jackass had some ugly hooker looking girl try to sit on my car's hood. Luckily my GF stopped them. I would have been PISSED if she dented it with her noxious hooker ass. They didn't even ask if they could be all up on the car...

I never want to do that again...

[7thgear]

Originally Posted by denkigrve

At the car show last weekend some jackass had some ugly hooker looking girl try to sit on my car's hood. Luckily my GF stopped them. I would have been PISSED if she dented it with her noxious hooker ass. They didn't even ask if they could be all up on the car...

I never want to do that again...

this is why i stay away from public car gatherings, only 10% of the people there have any car etiquette


here is another pet peeve, people who use the glass to close the door on frame-less door cars... like this one, and my previous one (subaru RS)

RAGGEEE

[denkigrve]

Originally Posted by 7thgear

this is why i stay away from public car gatherings, only 10% of the people there have any car etiquette


here is another pet peeve, people who use the glass to close the door on frame-less door cars... like this one, and my previous one (subaru RS)

RAGGEEE

Ugh, yeah that drives me fucking nuts.

[mezdup]

Originally Posted by denkigrve

Was gonna post this, but Ichitaka is a ninja and beat me to it.

Thanks Ichi, fun video.

Haha I posted this a while ago but it got buried. Probably cuz the original post wasn't as well done as it is here.

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12248

Also just noticed I didn't put it in the video forum. Mb.

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[denkigrve]

Originally Posted by mezdup

Haha I posted this a while ago but it got buried. Probably cuz the original post wasn't as well done as it is here.

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12248 from HTC

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And ichi just got out ninja'd! Nice. :P

[ZetaVI]

Enjoyed the vid. I wished it was longer.

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by mezdup

Haha I posted this a while ago but it got buried. Probably cuz the original post wasn't as well done as it is here.

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12248

Also just noticed I didn't put it in the video forum. Mb.

from HTC Rezound using Tapatalk 2

I beat ya by 17mins

I'll merge em asap

[mezdup]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

I beat ya by 17mins

I'll merge em asap

well played, sir. awesome video though.