Youichi Imamura

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Youichi Imamura
Nationality	Japan
Date of Birth	May 11, 1976 (1976-05-11) (age 32)
Place of Birth	Kai, Yamanashi Prefecture
2008 D1 Grand Prix
Debut season	2001
Current team	Auto Produce Boss with Potenza
Former teams	Top Secret with ORC, Apex'i
Championship titles
2003	1

Youichi Imamura (今村陽一, Imamura Yôichi^?, 11 May 1976, Yamanashi) is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for team Auto Produce Boss with Bridgestone Potenza.

He has always enjoyed driving, so drifting was a natural thing for him. His other passion is flowers as his parents ran a florist and he has always helped them out. So he has always known that he'd be a florist, when he isn't drifting he is working in a florists in Yamanashi called Silky House. His favourite time of the week is when he and his wife drive out to collect stock, Sometimes he cannot make it as he's at a photo shoot or a D1 event, so he uses the internet to check up.

He has been competing in the D1 Grand Prix series since it began in October 2000. His best year so far was the 2003 season where he won the series title in his Apex'i Mazda RX-7 (FD3S). After Apex'i left the series he switched to ORC and has been working with the team to improve the performance of the Nissan Fairlady Z coming in sixth in the 2007 series. In 2008, he switched to the newly formed team Auto Produce Boss with Potenza D-1 Project, driving their Nissan Silvia S15. He also has the most wins of any D1 driver with eight, one more than Nobushige Kumakubo.

Like rival drifter who he was team mate to, Ryuji Miki, he also competed in the Net'z Cup, a one make series for the Toyota Altezza between 2005 and its final season in 2006^[1], his racing antics was documented twice on Video Option.

1 Complete Drifting Results
- 1.1 D1 Grand Prix
2 Source
3 References

[edit] Complete Drifting Results

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[edit] D1 Grand Prix

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Position	Points
2001		Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86	EBS 1	NIK 6	BHH 8	EBS 5	NIK 2				2	66
2002	Apex'i	Toyota Altezza SXE10	BHH TAN	EBS TAN	EBS TAN						5	54
2002	Apex'i	Mazda RX-7 FD3S				SGO 1	TKB 7	SEK 8	NIK 1		5	54
2003	Apex'i	Mazda RX-7 FD3S	TKB 4	BHH 3	SGO 2	FUJ 1	EBS 1	SEK 11	TKB 2		1	106
2004	Apex'i	Mazda RX-7 FD3S	IRW 11	SGO 6	EBS 6	APS DNQ	ODB 2	EBS 2	TKB 1		3	78
2005	Apex'i	Mazda RX-7 FD3S	IRW 2	ODB 9	SGO 5	APS 11	EBS 5	FUJ 11	TKB 1		3	68
2006	ORC with Top Secret	Nissan Fairlady Z Z33	IRW 11	SGO 9	FUJ 8	APS TAN	EBS DNQ	SUZ DNQ	FUJ 11	IRW 8	15	19
2007	ORC with Top Secret	Nissan Fairlady Z Z33	EBS DNQ	FUJ 12	SUZ 3	SGO 10	EBS TAN	APS 3	FUJ 4		6	51
2008	Auto Produce Boss with Potenza D-1 Project	Nissan Silvia S15	EBS 7	FUJ 14	SUZ 5	OKY	APS	EBS	FUJ		9	27