In December 2014, Toyo Tires put up a video titled “GT-R Drift on Turnpike Hakone”. In December 2015, they put up a second episode, above, but this time featuring a showdown between Masato Kawabata of Team Toyo Tires Drift Trust Racing and Ken Gushi of Boost Brigade GReddy Team. The race was part of the Motorhead Hakone Hill Climb II.
The venue was the famed Mount Hakone, where, on a very wet day with rain-slicked roads, Kawabata and Gushi showed why drifting is a game of precision, timing and judgement. Kawabata drove the Nissan GT-R while Gushi was in a Toyota 86.
The perilous conditions, where the slightest misstep would see either car plunging 100 metres down the side of a ravine, claimed the 86’s clutch. This left the GT-R to make the final evening run solo, as seen in the video below.
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