Here’s part two of the time I went with Tsuyoshi Tezuka to Sweden last year when he was a guest driver of the Drift Monkey team.
Anders Klerud arrived the following morning with his matching Supra.
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This isn’t the most recent of content, but before it disappears into the vaults of backed-up files, I thought it should finally make an appearance on the site.
Early last year, the Norwegian drift team Driftmonkey’s boss Ove Harlem asked me to find him a Japanese guest driver for the Gatebil event in Mantorp, Sweden. I suggested D1GP driver and Kids Heart manager Tsuyoshi Tezuka, since I knew he was keen to do some more drifting overseas. Driftmonkey usually has three cars, two driven by regular drivers Reidar Andresen and Anders Klerud, and a third for guest drivers.
After not too much messing around, Ove had both of us on a plane from Tokyo to Oslo, where picked us up and took us for a nice dinner at the port area of Aker Brygge, before heading to the Driftmonkey garages the next day in Rakkestad.
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Many of you would have seen this video of Tsuyoshi Tezuka’s old pink JZX81, but did you know he is still sliding a pink JZX? This Mark II is his current personal practice car.
I was out at YZ Circuit yesterday for a Kids Heart event, and went along for an extremely wet and foggy ride. While this car is nowhere near as wild as his 81 was, it’s still pretty decent, with a GReddy TD06-25G on the stock VVTi 1JZ.
これは手塚強のマイカーです！昔のピンクＪＺＸ８１が覚えてますか？つよぽんはまだＪＺＸでやっていると！
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Possibly the best drift driver caricature sticker so far…
岐阜愚連隊手塚の昔のＪＺＸ８１ステッカはけっこうかっこよかったな～
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I took this photo back in 2005 on a trip to Japan with the Ben Ellis, the editor of the long defunct and much missed Drift Battle magazine (wow, I can’t believe that website is still up!), and Team Peer’s Darren Appleton.
We made a late-night visit to Kids Heart one day because it was on the way back home from Tezuka’s favourite ramen restaurant, if I recall correctly. Isn’t he a happy chappy with his purple umbrella?
I think the car just sitting up the front as an attention-getter while waiting to have the blown engine replaced. Tezuka was driving the Bee-R R324 by this time, so there was no real rush to fix it.
Think an interview might be a good idea the next time I see him?
12 CommentsCheck out this edit of the Gatebil event at Mantorp Park in Sweden last month! This was the one I took Tsuyoshi Tezuka to, so he could drift the new Team Driftmonkey guest driver car.
私がＤ１ＧＰ手塚強選手をスウェーデンの改造車イベントに連れて行ってきました！手塚さんはチームドリフトモンキーのゲストドライバーでした。
I love the epic slide starting at 1:13 with all three Driftmonkey cars. That’s me on the interior GoPro with Tezuka.
I didn’t actually drive at the Mantorp event and only rode passenger with Tezuka to get used to the car so I could drive at the next Gatebil in Rudskogen. Since I couldn’t drift myself at Mantorp though, I ended up getting pretty good at the Crazy Cart we had at the booth, which you can see at the 3:24 mark.
Comments Off on SWEDEN SLIDES: Gatebil Mantorp with TezukaI just arrived back home (in Japan, that is) from the airport and couldn’t be bothered setting up my external hard-drive to make a proper post.
Instead, here’s a picture of Tsuyoshi Tezuka’s updated sticker stolen from his Minkara page.
Back to normal tomorrow.
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I was at the 2014 1JZ Meeting when I was handed a flyer for an event called “Mark II Tribe” being held by Car Make T&E at Fuji Speedway’s Drift Course.
A Mark II-only event? I’m there!
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It’s time again to have a look at the server statistics and see which photos were the most popular last year.
So, here are the top twenty-five photos from Noriyaro in 2012!
これは２０１２年のノリヤロウ人気な写真ランキングです！アンケートより、サーバヒット数のランキングです。２５番から１まではじめましょう！
12 CommentsCongratulations Tsuyoshi Tezuka, winner of the 2009 D1GP Exhibition Round day two at Odaiba.
Second place Nomuken, third place Youichi Imamura.
More pics to come.
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