*anese professional drifting driver (born 1976)

Youichi Imamura (今村陽一, Imamura Yôichi, 11 May 1976, Yamanashi) is a *anese professional drifting driver, currently serve as judge in Formula Drift *an after stop competing in 2019.

He has always enjoyed driving, so drifting was a natural thing for him. His other p*ion 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 *le 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 *les at four, the first driver to win *les in consecutive years, the second driver with the most wins at 16 after Daigo Saito.

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, his racing antics were do*ented twice on Video Option.

Contents

• 1 Complete drifting results
  • 1.1 D1 Grand Prix
• 2 Sources
• 3 References

Complete drifting results

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D1 Grand Prix

Sources

• JDM Option
• D1 Grand Prix
• Silky House Flower Boutique
• Home page
• Auto Produce Boss

References