Kazuhiro Tanaka

For the Japanese pentathlete, see Kazuhiro Tanaka (pentathlete).

Kazuhiro Tanaka
Nationality	Japan
Born	(1970-07-04) July 4, 1970 Ibaraki
D1 Grand Prix career
Debut season	2001
Current team	Team Orange
Wins	2
Best finish	8 in 2003, 2004

Kazuhiro Tanaka (田中一弘, Tanaka Kazuhiro, 4 July 1970, Ibaraki) is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Team Orange and Yuke’s.

He first discovered drifting when riding in a friend's Toyota AE86 and he became hooked, as well of being part of Team Rough World which is more commonly now under RWB. As soon as he got his licence he bought a Toyota AE86 of his own and began practicing in the mountains, unluckily he soon had a nasty crash which almost caused him to give up drifting altogether. The next car he bought was a normally aspirated automatic Toyota Mark II with no LSD thinking that he wouldn’t be able to drift it, he soon discovered he was wrong, and decided that he was just meant to drift. He then bought a Toyota Chaser JZX81 and soon started to enter competitions, eventually it ended up with many battle scars, and he was known as the guy with the broken down Chaser, but he didn’t care as he adored the car. As well as being a D1 driver he works for M Sports, a well known body kit manufacturer and also competes in R/C car drifting competitions.

He entered the D1 Grand Prix in the first round in 2001 and did well gaining his first win in 2003. He is a member of Team Orange with Nobushige Kumakubo and Naoto Suenaga and enjoys working on close tandem driving with them. He currently drives a Subaru Impreza converted to rear wheel drive which he can drift just as well as his old Nissan Silvia, though in 2007 he has not had a very good season.

Complete Drifting Results

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D1 Grand Prix

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Position	Points
2001	Rough World	Nissan 180SX	EBS DNQ	NIK DNQ	BHH	EBS TAN	NIK					0
2002	Team Orange	Nissan Silvia S15	BHH	EBS DNQ	SGO 2	TKB TAN	EBS TAN	SEK TAN	NIK TAN		17	18
2003	Team Orange	Nissan Silvia S15	TKB 3	BHH 1	SGO TAN	FUJ TAN	EBS 16	SEK 10	TKB 16		8	38
2004	Team Orange	Nissan Silvia S15	IRW 6	SGO 16	EBS 7	APS TAN	ODB 9	EBS 6	TKB TAN		8	32
2005	Team Orange	Nissan Silvia S15	IRW 13	ODB 16	SGO 4	APS 10	EBS 10	FUJ TAN	TKB TAN		13	20
2006	Team Orange / Yuke's	Subaru Impreza GDB	IRW 3	SGO TAN	FUJ 16	APS TAN	EBS 7	SUZ 6	FUJ 9	IRW 1	6	59
2007	Team Orange / Yuke's	Subaru Impreza GDB	EBS 12	FUJ TAN	SUZ 10	SGO 14	EBS TAN	APS DNQ	FUJ DNQ		22	5
2008	Team Orange / Yuke's	Subaru Impreza GDB	EBS 3	FUJ TAN	SUZ 10	OKY 9	APS 5	EBS	FUJ		7	47

Sources

• JDM Option
• D1 Grand Prix