Drift Tengoku — October 2003

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English draft translations are available throughout this issue. Unclear or unreadable OCR remains flagged; these drafts have not received full image proofreading. The archive retains 310 scan files, including two duplicate captures, representing 308 unique pages.

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Page 158 · English draft

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  1. [Unclear: heading ending “infiltration/inside report”; opening damaged.]
  2. REPORT
  3. AE86s everywhere you look!
  4. OuL
  5. T5OJAPAN
  6. MAIRG
  7. A3VAH
  8. Y
  9. LAGA
  10. aWKI ZAMN
  11. A midsummer annual tradition!
  12. Close coverage of a one-make track day!
  13. …is the best, right!!
  14. “8degrees6minutes—quite a serious case”: AE86 track day [event-title wordplay on86; source does not say38.6degrees].
  15. August 6 is AE86 Day! This event organized by Vivian’s Kimiyo Yamamoto has surely become a midsummer tradition. AE86s gathered at Sportsland Yamanashi from early morning. Both paddock and circuit were full of them—about 60 cars! Drift Tengoku brings you an exclusive report!
  16. Vol.5
  17. [Opening slogan damaged] That is the appeal of the AE86! This year marked the fifth “8degrees6minutes—quite a serious case” AE86 track day organized by Vivian’s Kimiyo Yamamoto. This is Drift Tengoku’s third visit, so we can call it one of our annual regular features too. Holding an event on the same day with the same purpose every year is impressive. Choosing a different venue each year is also unusual. “This way, I think we make friends all over the country, and people who come every year do not get bored.” Kimiyo handles everything from planning and booking the circuit to running the day herself (with help from friends, of course, but she is the principal organizer). Although called an event, it consisted only of free-running sessions divided by class, but… [Event title checked on original; remainder of paragraph still source-review pending.]
  18. Date: Wednesday, August 6. Venue: Sportsland Yamanashi [OCR damaged].
  19. Organizer: Vivian. Cars participating: 57.
  20. Following on from last year,
  21. [Unclear: headline fragment.]
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  24. Photography: Takayasu Kosaku / Drift Tengoku [name reading provisional].