RACING DRIVER

Keiichi Tsuchiya

1956 - Today

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Keiichi Tsuchiya (土屋圭市, Tsuchiya Keiichi, born January 30, 1956) is a Japanese professional race car driver. He is known as the Drift King (ドリキン, Dorikin) for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport. In professional racing, he is a two-time 24 Hours of Le Mans class winner and the 2001 All Japan GT Championship runner-up. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Keiichi Tsuchiya has received more than 1,301,158 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 16 in 2019). Keiichi Tsuchiya is the 178th most popular racing driver (down from 168th in 2019), the 867th most popular biography from Japan (down from 820th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Keiichi Tsuchiya ranks 178 out of 1,080. Before him are Attilio Bettega, Renzo Zorzi, Hans Herrmann, Raymond Sommer, Paul Belmondo, and Harald Ertl. After him are Nello Pagani, Stefan Johansson, Ernesto Brambilla, Leo Kinnunen, Wayne Rainey, and Gino Bianco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Keiichi Tsuchiya ranks 150. Before him are Johnny Cecotto, Franky Vercauteren, Kevin McNally, Gregg L. Semenza, Akio Toyoda, and Cecilia Roth. After him are Paul Young, Andrius Kubilius, Stefan Johansson, Jens Fink-Jensen, Zinaida Greceanîi, and Herbert Grönemeyer.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Keiichi Tsuchiya ranks 867 out of 6,245. Before him are Asakura Yoshikage (1533), Yutaka Taniyama (1927), Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (1946), Juzo Itami (1933), Arima Harunobu (1567), and Utagawa Toyokuni (1769). After him are Koichi Tohei (1920), Ashikaga Yoshikatsu (1434), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Tadao Horie (1913), Yoshito Usui (1958), and Shigeyoshi Inoue (1889).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Japan

Among racing drivers born in Japan, Keiichi Tsuchiya ranks 2. Before him are Kunimitsu Takahashi (1940). After him are Satoru Nakajima (1953), Aguri Suzuki (1960), Takuma Sato (1977), Toshio Suzuki (1955), Kazuyoshi Hoshino (1947), Hiroshi Fushida (1946), Masahiro Hasemi (1945), Ukyo Katayama (1963), Daijiro Kato (1976), and Yuji Ide (1975).

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