DenkiMan!

Naoki Nakamura, the driver of the purple Team BURST coupe, was banned from competing in the D1 grand prix and D1 street legal series after the league heard about his arrest for illegal street drifting. Nakamura is a beast driver, and its too bad he ended his D1 career like this...people are hoping he shows up in the new league Tsuchiya is working on.

Stories below:


(Nakamura's car on the right)

"The big news at the show yesterday was that Naoki Nakamura of Team Burst was once again arrested for illegal street drifting. At the same time the sentencing from a previous offense came through, consisting of a two-year driver's license suspension and a pretty hefty fine. Upon hearing this, the D1 Corporation instantly banned him indefinitely from competing in D1 Grand Prix and D1 Street Legal. Today, some of the D1 Corporation people headed over to the D-Max stand where his cars are on display and removed his name from both, along with the D1 windscreen banners." - SpeedHunters


(that story came from this past TAS, so it was pretty recent.)

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teh smithers

Read this on Speedhunters yesterday...bummed to hear it. I can't wait for the new series that Tsuchiya is cooking up though. Hopefully Nakamura will be allowed to drive in that.

ILoveMyRHS13

This is about the 9,000th time he's been arrested for street drifting. Only difference now is that D1's head-honchos are douchebags and they don't want to look bad.

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Dee

ouch...that sucks.

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holybushoffire

It's unfortunate that he was banned was drifting in the street, as we all know is just plain stupid. What if they banned him because he was street drifting and wrecked? All the comments made wouldn't be in hopes of his return.

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GabeS14

It's part of the drift culture in Japan to street drift..ummm..thats how the whole option videos even started by filming street drifting...lol
They are only doing this because D1 is an international organization now....
It's pretty much an accepted thing to do...in Japan, people know where the drifting happens and they avoid those areas late at night.

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Banana_Cute

damn that sucks... cant wait for the event Tsuchiya is putting together.. hopefully it makes it state side soon.

holybushoffire

In my haste to post I completely forgot that this was in Japan. Even so, you would think being a professional drifter he would have somewhere to drift that others might not, somewhere away from the street.

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DenkiMan!

Here is the report of his arrest from a japanese site covering the story. i got this from drifting.com...someone translated it on there i guess. warning - broken english lol

" 大阪 Osaka


Traffic law violation: they arrested on suspicion of drift racers - Minoo / Osaka

As repeated in the mountains of dangerous driving Minoo City, traffic police department has 11 investigators, a professional racer, Mr. Nakamura Naoki (28) Sakurai, Nara-City, Toyama, a 16-man traffic law violation and colleagues (co-risk behavior ) announced that it has arrested.

Suspect arrest Nakamura early morning on August 1 last year, using a car modified in the way government's 粟生間谷 Minoh, sideslip at high speed vehicle "drift" was driving dangerous, such as trying to.

According to the MPD, Mr. Nakamura has won the domestic competition have experience racer drift. "I wanted to practice" and that the suspect admitted. 【茶谷亮】 [R.] Chatani "

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im guessing Minoo City is a fairly popular place for drifters in Osaka, because the mountain roads are so close to the city. so its not really like Nakamura couldnt find a better place, he goes there alot, and police dont often disturb them

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zspeedrft

hey practice makes perfect!...sucks to hear though

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JohnnyDrfiter22

I don't think the D1 owners are douchebags, they are protecting the sport. It be just like if a Famous pro sports player did something illegal, fined and possibly kicked out the leaugue.

DenkiMan!

lol he just wanted to practice

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DenkiMan!

lol! i like it...

and yea, im sure theyve somewhat at least heard of his multiple arrests in the past, but towards the end of D1, i guess they are trying to make a point in saying enough is enough.

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whiterps13

Gay. Who gives a shit. D1 is done anyways.

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NiSilS14

+1

Now there is absolutely nothing to look forward to in D1.

dsc4130

+2, i really wasnt not impressed when they were in chicago. we spent 3 days getting my friends car together following to rules to the tee and they kicked the tires and said the car was ok. lol

they wouldnt have D1 with out street drifting, they should just deal with it

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MidwestMyriad

+3 on Chicago, D1 on the downslope.

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codyace

people still drift?



Shame that this is how it came out. You would never see any major racing body ban/fine/suspend a driver for tickets or speeding..

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Moon Ill

They wouldn't have NASCAR without bootlegging either.

If (First Name) (Last name that sounds like it could be a first name) got arrested for excessive Speeding [arbitrarily, let's say 150+] NASCAR would probably ban that driver too.
Endangerment is endangerment and I don't blame D1 for doing what they did.

However, bad boys make sports cool and brings attention which usually brings money. It would have been a better financial decision to allow him to stay (maybe), but we can just agree they're trying to promote a clean image.

sidewaysil80

fucked up thing is, i have an option vid where they are hosting a team drift battle on various togue spots throughout japan. mana p and nomuken are hosting it. just goes to show they how screwed up they are. they didn't mind using street drifting/touges to drum up and tap into popularity but as soon as they got it they turned their back on the whole culture.

brndck

This was a very lame decision on the part of d1.
I could understand a ban for a few events or possibly even an entire season, but an indefinite ban just shows how desperate they are for approval.
Yes they need to put on a good show for the public by voicing disapproval for nakamuras arrest, but it is ludicrous for them to be this harsh against someone who participates in something that 90%+ of d1 participants has been filmed doing.

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Damn that sucks....

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previa19

no your wrong, think first. famous pro sports doing something illegal=obvious ban
he was practicing and although its illegal, thats all he was doing. not taking steroids or doin coke or drugs.

back to the point, it sucks that hes banned but D1 went downhill anyway, thats why tsuchiya and dai are starting their own things.

k0013

I know I've got that same dvd. its the street tribe heaven dvd. They even tell you where they are going and how bad the cops are are each spot. At any rate the D1 that exists today is not the same D1 we all came up on. The spirtuual forefathers are gone and so is the very soul of the league itself.

blue rexsti

damn, that sucks but thats where street drifting gets you

codyace

No they don't, nor haven't. Same with F1.

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fckillerbee

d1gp should be banned for even taking "cool" out of the sport. Fuck those guys. I stopped watching d1gp 2 years ago cause it was just getting lamer and lamer.

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No he was not banned or anything... yes he was speeding and weaving in/out of traffic.

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