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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 1,214,627 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Keiichi Tsuchiya is the 168th most popular racing driver (up from 9,289th in 2019), the 823rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 795th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Keiichi Tsuchiya ranks 168 out of 888. Before him are Giancarlo Baghetti, Stefan Bellof, Guy Edwards, Didier Auriol, Olivier Gendebien, and Johnny Cecotto. After him are Raymond Sommer, Olivier Panis, Roy Salvadori, Johnny Servoz-Gavin, Carel Godin de Beaufort, and Joey Dunlop.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Keiichi Tsuchiya ranks 131. Before him are Rolandas Paksas, Cherry Jones, Mircea Cărtărescu, Rita Wilson, Momir Bulatović, and Johnny Cecotto. After him are Brett Cullen, Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium, Richard Curtis, Franky Vercauteren, Douglas Preston, and Afric Simone.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Keiichi Tsuchiya ranks 823 out of 6,048. Before him are Osamu Dezaki (1943), Juzo Itami (1933), Yūsaku Matsuda (1949), Machiko Hasegawa (1920), Shigeru Kayano (1926), and Asakura Yoshikage (1533). After him are Prince Hisaaki (1276), Takeshi Kamo (1915), Saigō Jūdō (1843), Kiyoura Keigo (1850), Arai Hakuseki (1657), and Yukio Endo (1937).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Japan

Among racing drivers born in Japan, Keiichi Tsuchiya ranks 1. After him are Kunimitsu Takahashi (1940), Satoru Nakajima (1953), Takuma Sato (1977), Aguri Suzuki (1960), Ukyo Katayama (1963), Toshio Suzuki (1955), Kazuyoshi Hoshino (1947), Hiroshi Fushida (1946), Masahiro Hasemi (1945), Kamui Kobayashi (1986), and Norifumi Abe (1975).

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