Ryuji Miki

is a racing and drifting driver from Tottori Prefecture, Japan. Miki was the D1 Grand Prix champion driving the Top Secret Silvia S15. Miki also competed in the Net'z Cup, a one make series for the Toyota Altezza between 2005 and its final season in 2006 and is nicknamed Doki-Doki kun due to his drifting style.

Miki started in the series in his own S14 Silvia, before switching to the Top Secret modified S15 for the season. During the season, partway through the season when Nobuteru Taniguchi switched to the Toyota Altezza, leading to a sudden change of fortune, as many felt that Miki was fortunate as he also managed to get score his sole win at Odaiba, allowing Miki to finish the season with the title that year, beating Taniguchi by 28pts, currently the widest margin of the series.

For the season, following the opening Irwindale round, Miki switched to a Top Secret modified Fairlady Z Z33 powered by a RB26. He was unable to follow on his successes of the previous season as he only managed to scrape 16 pts. Much of it was, at the time, the Z33 was still in development to be fully competitive in drifting, due to its weight, one of its reason why it befell many of its drivers.

Miki's last win was at the Silverstone exhibition event in his old S15, that year was to be his last season in the series. For the season, rival Youichi Imamura's team and title sponsor, A'PEXi withdrew from the series due to a redirection in the company's business strategies, leading him to take over Miki's Z33. As of 2007, incidentally, Miki would compete in Formula D driving with Imamura's previous D1 sponsor, APEX'i (partnering with Bergenholtz Racing) and driving a white FD3S.

Throughout the 2007 season, in light of issues he faced with adapting to driving a left hand drive car for the first time, not to mention within a full season of racing, Miki managed to finish the Formula D season impressively. Reaching the rank of top 16 within four events, Ryuji finally adapted to the car within the sixth and seventh rounds finishing 14th overall for the season. Continuing on in 2008 with major backing by Bergenholtz Racing, Nitto Tires, and MAZDA, Ryuji Miki will continue to pilot the APEX RX-7 with plans to potentially unveil a new car for 2009. According to Keith Covey and Chuck Griffice of APEX Integration's R&D department, the new setup on the 2008 car has been completely redone and Miki would be adapting to what essentially amounts to a new car.

Complete drifting results

D1 Grand Prix Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Position Points Nissan Silvia S14 EBS NIK BHH10 EBSTAN NIK10 21st 4 Top Secret Nissan Silvia S14 BHHTAN 28th 6 Nissan Silvia S15 EBS8 SGODNQ TKBDNQ EBSTAN SEKDNQ NIKTAN Top Secret Nissan Silvia S15 TKBDNQ BHH5 SGO16 FUJTAN EBS16 SEK9 TKB9 13th 20 Top Secret Nissan Silvia S15 IRW5 SGO4 EBS4 APS3 ODB1 EBS2 TKB3 1st 110 Top Secret/ORC Nissan Fairlady Z Z33 IRW9 ODB6 SGO APSDNQ EBS16 FUJDNQ TKB16 16th 16

Formula D Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Position Points 2007 A'PEXi Mazda RX-7 FD Rd. 1 Rd. 2 Rd. 3 Rd. 4 Rd. 5 Rd. 6 Rd. 7 14 240.75

Year Entrant Car Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Rd.4 Rd.5 Rd.6 Rd.7 Position Points 2008 A'PEXi Mazda RX-7 FD 55 pts .25 pts 604 pts .25 pts 64 pts TBA TBA 11th 183.50