Career
Like many of the drivers in the D1GP, he is the owner of his own tuning shop called SunRise, and works on his car himself. Before starting in D1, he was part of a team called, "Dropout Racing". He is quite a popular driver as he is one of best drivers of the Toyota AE86 chassis in the D1GP today, he is also famous for his jumping drift which he first showed at Ebisu Circuit in 2004, where he drifts while his car is airborne.
As he carried on in D1, he has another Levin which is a 3-door while his North.A. Creamish-Beige Levin AE86 is a 2-door coupe.
The 3-door Levin is heavily modified, featuring the SR20 engine from a Nissan Silvia which gives a significant performance advantage over the standard engine. Though some of the more hardcore AE86 fans do not like this Nissan transplant, it is fairly common, but he has stuck with the stock AE86 live-axle rear end as some would use a S13 rear education
He now drives the new Toyota GT86 powered by an EJ20 engine from Subaru (boxer engine). He began competing in the D1 Grand Prix in the sixth round in 2002, though he did not get any recognition until round 3 of 2004 when out of nowhere he defeated many well known names to take second place, and first exhibited his jumping drift which took the crowd and judges by storm.
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D1 Grand Prix.