Young Version — August 1999
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About this issue
The August 1999 issue of Young Version explores drift setups versus grip tuning through 22 shop demo cars, including S15 Silvias from Mine’s and Kazama Auto. Features cover front-wheel-drive builds taking on high-powered 4WD rivals, choosing a first drift car, and reviving a used AE86 Trueno on a ¥1 million total budget. Suspension fundamentals, engine-oil selection, rotary maintenance, new-parts tests, and reports from Hiroshima and California round out this look at Japan’s late-1990s tuning scene.
242 available scans from Young Version — August 1999, in right-to-left reading order. Japanese OCR and English translation drafts are available throughout. Drafts have not received exhaustive image proofreading; unreadable source remains recorded in the archival data.
Page 151 — English draft translation
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Tsukuba Circuit
Track day and…
Category
Saturday, July 31
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Drifting
Grip driving
90 cars; 60 minutes of track time
Clever track-day event at Tsukuba Circuit
Fee: ¥20,000; number of cars…
Event information board
Drag racing
Monday, August 3
Inquiries: Team Clever Racing, 03-3766-3312
Gymkhana
Beginners welcome
G-Corporation & Kazama track day
Time attack
Kazama Auto, 048-745-2026
Fee: ¥18,000; 120 cars; 20 minutes × 3 sessions
Other…
G Corporation, 0474-57-0001
Wednesday, August 11 — gymkhana / beginners
Tokachi Highland Speedway
TI Circuit Aida
Fee: ¥8,000; 50 cars
Team Meijin gymkhana practice (Tsukuba Gymkhana Course)
MK Sport / Team Meijin, 03-5461-8589
Drifting / beginners
Sunday, August 29
Battle Royal Drift Tournament (Round 3)
Monday August 23
T Weekday Powers / Roadster Meeting
Saturday, August 21 — grip / time attack
Nikko Fastest Grand Championship, Round 4
80155·52·3910
Tokachi Speedway
Fee: ¥12,000; 40 cars or more
8086874·3311
TI Circuit Aida
Fee: from ¥19,000; 60 cars; 30 minutes × 3 sessions
Fee: from ¥10,000; 125 cars
Kashū Motors, 048-772-8885
Other circuits
Wednesday September 8
Rocket Dancer track day at TI Circuit
Tuesday August 24
RCJ free run
Fee: ¥19,000; 40 cars; 30 minutes × 2 sessions
Fee: from ¥17,000; 60 cars; 30 minutes × 2 or more sessions
Gymkhana
Sunday, August 1
JMRC Kanagawa Series, Round 7 and…
Fujimura Auto, 075-381-7931
RCJ Office (contact: Kokubun), 03-3620-7939
15th Traffic Accident Orphans Charity Gymkhana
Location: Sagamiko Picnic Land; fee: ¥12,000
Fuji Speedway
Nikko Circuit
Wednesday, August 11 — beginners / other
Rookie Motorsport Club, 0426-87-3321
Drift / beginners
Saturday, August 14
BP Cup at Fuji Speedway — cash prizes
Grip / drift / beginner / time attack
Sunday, August 8
Potenza Circuit Challenge
FET Meeting at Suzuka (Vol. 11)
Beginner Drift Competition, 10th Anniversary Event
P.C.C. Office (contact: Takasugi)
Track time: 60–90 minutes
Location: Suzuka Circuit; fee: from ¥28,000
90 cars
Fee: from ¥10,000
JACS & SANDRA 03·3484·1180
0493·61·1185
Pro Cruise office
0586·24·3365
FET Meeting at Suzuka Office, K.Y.T.T.
Drift / beginners
Monday August 23
Advance Track Day
Drift / other
Monday, August 9
SSRA track day
Sunday, August 15 — grip / drift / beginners / time attack
NRS track day
Fee: from ¥18,000; track time: one hour or more
Advance Track Day Office, 045-943-5901
Fee: from ¥11,000; about 80 cars…
About 20 minutes per run, as many runs as time permits
50 cars
Location: Rally Kids Ina; fee: from ¥9,000…
Monday September 6
ASPECT track day
Sunday, August 22 — grip / drift / beginners / time attack
SSRA Office, 0492-36-0789
NRS (Next Racing Service), 0462-24-6476
Fee: ¥15,000; 50 cars
Circuit Club track day
Sunday, August 15 — beginners
67th JNRC circuit practice day at Narita
Grip / beginners
0533·72·6556
Thursday, September 16
Aspect
Fee: from ¥18,500
Circuit Club, 048-687-2431
0479·63·9893
Inquiries: July Nine Racing
Location: Narita Motorland; fee: ¥10,000; 33 cars
Fee: ¥16,000; 50 cars
KSP Engineering track day
Grip / drift / beginners
Thursday September 9
Sun Racing track day
Sunday, August 22 — drifting / other
BASIE Sports circuit track day
KSP Engineering, 042-531-9936
Sun Racing Garage, 043-487-9206
Fee: from ¥12,000; 50 cars
Location: Rally Kids Ina; fee: from ¥7,000…
Sendai Highland
Tuesday, September 14 — grip / drift / beginners
60 cars
Bayside & Co., 03-3391-751…
Beginners / time attack
Tuesday, August 10
Cloud track day
Fee: ¥15,000; 45 cars; 20 minutes × 8 sessions
Wednesday, August 25 — time attack / other
’99 Works Tuning Circuit Track Day, Round 2
Highland Rookie Challenge ’99
Fee: from ¥8,500; 80 cars; 25 minutes × 2 sessions
Auto Shop Cloud, 047-360-1143
Location: Sportsland Yamanashi; fee: ¥15,000
Works Office, Pro Cruise, 0493-62-1485
Sunday, September 5 — time attack
Japan Motor Racing Center, 022-391-0231
Nihonkai Maze Circuit
Friday, August 27 — beginners / other
99AMKREADDRAGBATTLE
Drifting
Sunday, August 8
Team TOM’S track day at Nasu
Location: Nasu Motor Sports…
Kanto-Koshinetsu Round 3
AMKREAD publicity: Yasu Eimitsu, 03-3321-1583
Nihonkai Drift Grand Prix, Round 3
Fee: from ¥11,000
Fee: ¥16,000
Team… Office (contact: Fukuki), 042-556-0911
Central Circuit
Wednesday, August 26 — grip / drift / time attack
Nihonkai Maze Circuit, Kyoto office, 075-464-6081
We welcome event information!
Beginners
Saturday, August 14
CAR BOX Drift Festival
Fee: from ¥8,000; four hours of track time
Those wishing to have an event listed here should provide the date, event name…
Central Circuit practice day, Vol. 1.5
Thursday, September 9 — grip / drift / beginners / time attack
CARBOX Konoma Motors, 025-274-7588
Please include entry fee, number of cars, contact information, and send to…
…8524, Kotsu Times Co., Ltd., Young Version editorial department (“Track Day Information Board”)
Please send it to the section in charge. We also accept fax submissions at 03-3252-8213.
35 cars; 30 minutes × 1 session or more
Contact: Sugihara, 0795-32-2348
From ¥5,000…
Dog Fight
Fee…
Pack R Circuit Challenge ’99
…if so, it may not be possible to publish them.
Submissions may be limited due to high volume or deadline constraints…
Fee: from ¥10,000
Pack R, 027-234-3284