Tatsuya Sakuma
Tatsuya Sakuma | |
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Nationality | Japanese |
Born | Miyagi, Japan | July 4, 1974
D1 Grand Prix career | |
Debut season | 2001 |
Former teams | Team Toyo |
Best finish | 3rd in 2012 |
Previous series | |
(previous series with line breaks) | |
Championship titles | |
(championship titles) |
Tatsuya Sakuma (佐久間達也, Sakuma Tatsuya, born 4 July 1974, in Miyagi) is a former Japanese professional drifting driver. He retired from drifting after 2015 D1 Grand Prix season.
He has competed in the D1GP series since the very beginning, starting out in a Nissan Silvia PS13 He did not do very well, scoring only 2 points in his first four years. His big break came when he was signed by Aviation Performance Products, who gave him a new Nissan Silvia S15 to drive. In 2005, his first year with APP, he scored 41 points, getting a third and second place and finishing ninth overall. The year after he did even better, finishing seventh overall; this led to him moving to Team Toyo in 2007. Since then he hasn't done so well, Team Toyo S15 obviously not suiting his driving style.
However, in 2011, he won the exhibition match in Centrair, defeated his teammate Masato Kawabata. This was his first win.
He had competed in D1GP until 2015. Since 2016, he is not participating in it because he wants to focus on company management, his principal occupation.
Complete Drifting results
[edit]Colour | Result |
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Gold | Winner |
Silver | 2nd place |
Bronze | 3rd place |
Green | Last 4 [Semi-final] |
Blue | Last 8 [Quarter-final] |
Purple | Last 16 (16) [1st Tsuiou Round OR Tandem Battle] (Numbers are given to indicate Top 10 finish) |
Black | Disqualified (DSQ) (Given to indicate that the driver has been stripped of their position through disqualification) |
White | First Round (TAN) [Tansou OR Qualifying Single Runs] |
Red | Did not qualify (DNQ) |
- When driver's position are highlighted in blue, this indicates either the driver earned 100pt or 100pt tansou (solo run) bonus has been awarded, with the latter being in use for Pre-2005.
D1 Grand Prix
[edit]Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Position | Points |
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2001 | Nissan Silvia PS13 | EBS | NIK DNQ | BHH | EBS TAN | NIK | - | 0 | ||||
2002 | Nissan Silvia PS13 | BHH | EBS 10 | SGO TAN | TKB DNQ | EBS DNQ | SEK | NIK TAN | 30 | 2 | ||
2003 | Nissan Silvia PS13 | TKB | BHH | SGO DNQ | FUJ DNQ | EBS DNQ | SEK | TKB | - | 0 | ||
2004 | Nissan Silvia PS13 | IRW | SGO | EBS | APS | ODB | EBS 16 | TKB DNQ | - | 0 | ||
2005 | APP | Nissan Silvia S15 | IRW | ODB TAN | SGO 3 | APS 8 | EBS TAN | FUJ 16 | TKB 2 | 9 | 41 | |
2006 | APP | Nissan Silvia S15 | IRW 7 | SGO 16 | FUJ 4 | APS TAN | EBS TAN | SUZ 3 | FUJ 7 | IRW 10 | 7 | 53 |
2007 | Team Toyo | Nissan Silvia S15 | EBS 9 | FUJ TAN | SUZ 16 | SGO TAN | EBS TAN | APS 4 | FUJ 10 | 15 | 23 | |
2008 | Team Toyo | Nissan Silvia S15 | EBS TAN | FUJ 15 | SUZ 12 | OKY DNQ | APS TAN | EBS | FUJ | 22 | 7 |