Youichi Imamura

Youichi Imamura (今村陽一, Imamura Yôichi, 11 May 1976, Yamanashi) is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for team OTG MotorSports and Falken w/ Pentronas.

Youichi Imamura
Nationality Japan
Born (1976-05-11) May 11, 1976
Kai, Yamanashi Prefecture
D1 Grand Prix career
Debut season2001
Current teamOTG MotorSports and Falken w/ Pentronas
Former teamsM7 BOSS SGC w/ Dunlop, Auto Produce Boss with Potenza, Top Secret with ORC, A'PEXi, I.C.B.M.
Wins13
Championship titles
2003 2009 2010 20114

He has always enjoyed driving, so drifting was a natural thing for him. His other passion is flowers as his parents ran a florist business and he has always helped them out. So he has always known that he would be a florist, when he is not drifting he is working in a florists in Yamanashi called Silky House. His favourite time of the week is when he and his wife drive out to collect stock, Sometimes he cannot make it as he is at a photo shoot or a D1 event, so he uses the internet to check up.

He has been competing in the D1 Grand Prix series since it began in October 2000. His first successful year was the 2003 season where he won the series title in his A'PEXi Mazda RX-7 (FD3S). After A'PEXi left the series he switched to ORC and has been working with the team to improve the performance of the Nissan Fairlady Z coming in sixth in the 2007 series. In 2008, he switched to the newly formed team Auto Produce Boss with Potenza D-1 Project, driving their Nissan Silvia S15 which was actually Yasuyuki Kazama's 2005 Championship car. He went on to win the 2009, 2010 and 2011 Series Championship in this car, making him the only driver with the most championship titles at four, the only driver to win titles in consecutive years, as well as the driver with the most wins at 15.

Like rival drifter who he was team mate to, Ryuji Miki, he also competed in the Net'z Cup, a one make series for the Toyota Altezza between 2005 and its final season in 2006,[1] his racing antics were documented twice on Video Option.

Complete drifting results

(key)

D1 Grand Prix
Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Position Points
2001 I.C.B.M. Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 EBS
1		 NIK
6		 BHH
8		 EBS
5		 NIK
2		 2 66
2002 A'PEXi Toyota Altezza SXE10 BHH
TAN		 EBS
TAN		 SGO
TAN		 5 54
Mazda RX-7 FD3S TKB
1		 EBS
7		 SEK
8		 NIK
1
2003 A'PEXi Mazda RX-7 FD3S TKB
4		 BHH
3		 SGO
2		 FUJ
1		 EBS
1		 SEK
16		 TKB
2		 1 106
2004 A'PEXi Mazda RX-7 FD3S IRW
16		 SGO
6		 EBS
6		 APS
 ODB
2		 EBS
1		 TKB
1		 3 78
2005 A'PEXi Mazda RX-7 FD3S IRW
2		 ODB
9		 SGO
5		 APS
16		 EBS
5		 FUJ
16		 TKB
1		 3 68
2006 ORC with Top Secret Nissan Fairlady Z Z33 IRW
16		 SGO
9		 FUJ
8		 APS
TAN		 EBS
 SUZ
 FUJ
16		 IRW
8		 15 19
2007 ORC with Top Secret Nissan Fairlady Z Z33 EBS
DNQ		 FUJ
12		 SUZ
3		 SGO
10		 EBS
TAN		 APS
3		 FUJ
4		 6 51
2008 Auto Produce Boss with Potenza D-1 Project Nissan Silvia S15 EBS
7		 FUJ
14		 SUZ
5		 OKY
1		 APS
4		 EBS
 FUJ
 3 70
2009 Auto Produce Boss with Potenza D-1 Project Nissan Silvia S15 EBS
2		 APS
1		 OKY
6		 OKY
8		 EBS
4		 EBS
6		 FUJ
3		 FUJ
4		 1 130
2010 M7 Boss SGC with Dunlop Nissan Silvia S15 ODB
1		 APS
5		 FUJ
1		 OKY
3		 EBS
6		 EBS
1		 FUJ
13		 1 122


Sources
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gollark: > I want the scientists in society to have a place to exist too.I mean, I don't disagree, but just "give whoever rents it first a freeish house" doesn't seem like a good mechanism for that. Unless you mean they do "give whoever they find cool a freeish house", which is... also bad in other ways.
gollark: If it was actually possible to add more housing, it would be much easier to fix.
gollark: We somehow deal with this problem in basically every *other* market.

References
  1. (in Japanese) BATTLEGEAR.NET レース＆イベントレポート
Preceded by
Katsuhiro Ueo		 D1 Grand Prix Champion
2003		 Succeeded by
Ryuji Miki
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