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  Biography for Keiichi Tsuchiya
  
  Nickname: Dorikin, Drift King
  Height: 5' 5¾'' (1.67 m)
  
  Trade mark: The use of color lyme green, which appears on his helmet, overall and also on Kei Office employee and D1 Grand Prix driver Yasuyuki Kazama's Nissan S15 Silvia. Also appears often in various episodes of Initial D as shots of driver overalls
  Trivia
  
  Settled for second place in the 1999 Le Mans 24 hour race after co-driver Ukyo Katayama suffered a tire puncture in the last hour of the race whilst lapping a BMW which forced his Toyota GT-One into the grass
  
  1995 GT2 class winner in a Honda NSX at the Le Mans 24 hour race
  Retired from professional racing at the end of the 2003 season
  
  Currently a team manager for the ARTA NSX team, judges the D1 Grand Prix events and runs his own car suspension company Kei Office. Also regularly appear in Hot Version, Best Motoring, Option Video and Drift Tengoku
  
  Holds the Usui course record with his Honda NSX-R
  
  The manga/anime Initial D's lead character Takumi was based on Keiichi as both of them started out to explore their local Touge while doing regular deliveries for their family business.
  
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  Keiichi Tsuchiya - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
  Keiichi Tsuchiya (土屋圭市 Tsuchiya Kei'ichi, born January 30, 1956, Nagano) is a professional racing driver from Japan. He is also known as the ''Drift King'' 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 Tōge (mountain pass) driving. The car he is most famous for driving is a Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno (a.k.a. the ''Hachi-Roku'' in Japan (hachi-roku meaning ''eight six'')).
  
  Biography
  
  Tsuchiya started amateur racing in 1977 in the ''Fuji Freshman'' series. Unlike many drivers who came a traditional route via wealthy families or previous motorsport background, he honed his skills from street racing becoming an underground legend. He would continue to take part in the Japanese Formula 3, Japanese Touring Car championship, the latter whilst driving a Nissan Skyline GT-R in the Group A championship and later a Honda Civic in the Supertouring car championship. He went on to score a class win and a top 10 place at the 1995 24 hours of Le Mans in a Honda NSX. In 1999 of the same race this time in a Toyota GT-One during the last hour whilst co driver Ukyo Katayama was building up pace to the leading BMW he was forced into the grass by a backmarker blowing the tyre out. They survived the ordeal and went on to score the fastest lap but were forced to settle for second. At 47 years of age, Tsuchiya announced his retirement from professional racing. His last race was the Japanese GT championship. After his retirement, he remained in racing and is now an Official D1 Grand Prix Judge and is GT300 Class Team Director of ARTA JGTC Team and continues to run the aftermarket suspension company Kei Office. He also hosts the television show ''Best Motoring'', which features road-tests of new Japanese cars, including a special section called ''Hot Version'', which focuses on performance modified cars. He is a guest presenter in Video Option, a monthly video magazine, similar to Hot Version, which also regularly covers the D1GP and sister video magazine Drift Tengoku which deals purely on drifting.
  
  He has been an editorial supervisor on the televised anime Initial D (and its live action counterpart), and appeared in episode 23 as a special guest. He also appeared in the semi biographical film Shuto Kousoku Trial 2,3,4 and Max
  
  Trivia
  
  * Keiichi Tsuchiya's Touge homecourse is the Usui
  * Holds the Usui course record with his NSX-R
  * When ''Dori Dori'' was a freshman in circuit racing, he got his race license suspended due to the illegal racing that he was still doing. In the movie, Shuto Kousoku Trial Max, he advises someone to leave the illegal racing scene behind if he is to become involved with professional racing. That is as if Keiichi as himself in the movie advises that to a fictional character using his real life experience.
  * His life in driving has parallelism to the Initial D main character, Takumi, as both of them started out to explore their local Touge while doing regular deliveries for their family business.
  * He has raced in NASCAR-sanctioned exhibition races at Suzuka Circuit (Suzuka Thunder 100) and at Twin Ring Motegi Superspeedway for the 1998 NASCAR-sanctioned exhibition and 1999 NASCAR Grand National Division, AutoZone West Series races at the circuit, both named the Coca-Cola 500k.
  * Trademark color is Jade Green, which appears on his overall, helmet and is the adopted color of his company, Kei Office. Also is the color if the D1 Grand Prix Kei Office S15 Silvia of driver and employee Yasuyuki Kazama. On Initial D 3rd Stage the color can also be seen on a sportsbike rider overall and helmet who overtook Takumi as he was en-route to an initiation battle with Ryosuke Takahashi.
  
  Quotes
  
  ''I drift not because it is a quicker way around a corner, but it is the most exciting way'' - Keiichi Tsuchiya
  
  ''You brake and then turn the wheel, step on the clutch, and pull the e-brake. Release the e-brake, go into countersteer mode, then wait. Wait until you know the car is facing the corner exit direction. then you smile and slam on the gas as you exit the corner.'' - Keiichi Tsuchiya
  
  ''This is fun! I wish that Toyota could make cars like this again!'' - Keiichi Tsuchiya in the Toyota AE86 Trueno
  
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