Kazuhiro Tanaka

For the Japanese pentathlete, see Kazuhiro Tanaka (pentathlete).
Kazuhiro Tanaka
Nationality  Japan
Born (1970-07-04) July 4, 1970
Ibaraki
D1 Grand Prix career
Debut season 2001
Current team Team Orange
Wins 2
Best finish 8 in 2003, 2004

Kazuhiro Tanaka (田中一弘 Tanaka Kazuhiro, 4 July 1970, Ibaraki) is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Team Orange and Yuke’s.

He first discovered drifting when riding in a friend's Toyota AE86 and he became hooked, as well of being part of Team Rough World which is more commonly now under RWB. As soon as he got his licence he bought a Toyota AE86 of his own and began practicing in the mountains, unluckily he soon had a nasty crash which almost caused him to give up drifting altogether. The next car he bought was a normally aspirated automatic Toyota Mark II with no LSD thinking that he wouldn’t be able to drift it, he soon discovered he was wrong, and decided that he was just meant to drift. He then bought a Toyota Chaser JZX81 and soon started to enter competitions, eventually it ended up with many battle scars, and he was known as the guy with the broken down Chaser, but he didn’t care as he adored the car. As well as being a D1 driver he works for M Sports, a well known body kit manufacturer and also competes in R/C car drifting competitions.

He entered the D1 Grand Prix in the first round in 2001 and did well gaining his first win in 2003. He is a member of Team Orange with Nobushige Kumakubo and Naoto Suenaga and enjoys working on close tandem driving with them. He currently drives a Subaru Impreza converted to rear wheel drive which he can drift just as well as his old Nissan Silvia, though in 2007 he has not had a very good season.

Complete Drifting Results

(key)

D1 Grand Prix

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Position Points
2001 Rough World Nissan 180SX EBS
DNQ		 NIK
DNQ		 BHH
 EBS
TAN		 NIK
 0
2002 Team Orange Nissan Silvia S15 BHH
 EBS
DNQ		 SGO
2		 TKB
TAN		 EBS
TAN		 SEK
TAN		 NIK
TAN		 17 18
2003 Team Orange Nissan Silvia S15 TKB
3		 BHH
1		 SGO
TAN		 FUJ
TAN		 EBS
16		 SEK
10		 TKB
16		 8 38
2004 Team Orange Nissan Silvia S15 IRW
6		 SGO
16		 EBS
7		 APS
TAN		 ODB
9		 EBS
6		 TKB
TAN		 8 32
2005 Team Orange Nissan Silvia S15 IRW
13		 ODB
16		 SGO
4		 APS
10		 EBS
10		 FUJ
TAN		 TKB
TAN		 13 20
2006 Team Orange / Yuke's Subaru Impreza GDB IRW
3		 SGO
TAN		 FUJ
16		 APS
TAN		 EBS
7		 SUZ
6		 FUJ
9		 IRW
1		 6 59
2007 Team Orange / Yuke's Subaru Impreza GDB EBS
12		 FUJ
TAN		 SUZ
10		 SGO
14		 EBS
TAN		 APS
DNQ		 FUJ
DNQ		 22 5
2008 Team Orange / Yuke's Subaru Impreza GDB EBS
3		 FUJ
TAN		 SUZ
10		 OKY
9		 APS
5		 EBS
 FUJ
 7 47

Sources

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