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.

Tatsuya Sakuma
NationalityJapanese
Born (1974-07-04) July 4, 1974 (age 49)
Miyagi, Japan
D1 Grand Prix career
Debut season2001
Former teamsTeam Toyo
Best finish3rd in 2012
Previous series
(previous series with line breaks)
Championship titles
(championship titles)

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
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
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

Sources edit