http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami My name is MakitoNakagami I am a Japanese Racing Car Driver . I want to be the first Japanese champion in Europe Touring Car Race. But now I live in Japan. My going to Europe might become later several years. I want you to know me before it. Please keep your eyes on me. en MakitoNakagami MakitoNakagami Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:36:00 +0200 daily 1 I debuted to the Skype ! Do you know the Skype? It`s  one of the famous voice chat. I started using Skype to practice English.  I hadn`t spoken with the foreigner before I used Skype. I always studied English by writing and reading and hearing only.  I have to improve my talking skill. Now kind Philipino Anthony is talking with me. He gives me a lot of interesting topixs. This opportunity is really precious . And I`m looking for someone that can talk in the Skype especially about the motorsports or cars. Please give me your comment . My Skype ID is " frdmf105 " Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:36:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Skype/19/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Skype/19/ This is my first writing in 2009. I could not write the article in the early of this month. Because I have a lot of problem to solve, and most of it related to the sponsor. Still I can`t  start the program of this new season. It takes a time but the things are going well gradually. I`ll tell you as soon as possible if I can determine the project of this season. If my proposals goes well, I can show you a very unique racing project in this season !! Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:54:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/The-first-article-in-2009/18/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/The-first-article-in-2009/18/ I started this weblog from November of last year. So next month will be the first 1 year anniversary. But still my weblog was watched only 300 people. Analyze from the weblog status,there is constantly one people watching my weblog per day. On the other hand, my Japanese weblog has at least 50 access per day. A lot of people give me the nice comments and some of them became my precious personal sponsors . In Japan, the culture of weblog more popular than other country. There is lot`s of "Weblog Introduction Homepage" and "Weblog Ranking Site". Many different kinds of people choose and access to the weblog. I think it is very effective to self introduction and advertise. Of course I update my "Japanese" weblog more frequently than "English". I ignored my English weblog for a long time. When I started this weblog I didn`t compete in any official race. Then I thought it wasn`t important to keep the English... Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:31:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Get-more-access/17/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Get-more-access/17/ If I choose the category I will compete next year from touring car race, there are 4 major categories in Japan. HONDA Civic RACE , NISSAN Micra CUP , TOYOTA Yaris CUP ,and VW GTI CUP . Each races have a different style and background. The Civic race is a newest category started in this year. Most of races are supporting the SUPER-GT series and Formula NIPPON . Machine is the original specification made by HONDA-MUGEN. But it almost same to the S2000 machine. We can get the good experience from it to be a Europe touring car driver. The Micra cup is of course the one make series organized by NISSAN-NISMO. The base machine is normal Micra SR12 edition and remake it to the cupcar. It has almost same performance to RENAULT CLIO CUP but it isn`t so popular like Clio cup. But the budget per year is more inexpensive. Machine style is very cute but it’s very quick and always keep the race competition high . The... Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:10:46 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/The-plan-for-next-year-2/16/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/The-plan-for-next-year-2/16/  I decided that this year is the last year to compete in FJ1600. Now I`m planing to move up to higher level formula car races or other touring car races. I think the number of race categories in Japan is less than that of the other countries which motor sports is popular. We have only few category to able to choice. There are two categories between FJ1600 and Formula 3. It is Formula 4 [F4] and Formula Challenge Japan [FCJ]                      FCJ                                         F4 F4 is the original category in Japan. FCJ is the same machine to Formula Renault. Compare these two categories, FCJ is more competitive than Formula 4. A lot of young talented drivers compete in this series. FCJ limited the driver`s age under 26. Of course I can compete but most important problem is the money. The budget of FCJ is $70000 per year . Compare to Formula Renault UK series,... Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:09:19 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/The-plan-for-next-year-1/15/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/The-plan-for-next-year-1/15/ Hi guys! I updated my race video to web. This video is most recently race Round 5 video. This race,I started from 10th and finished in 16th. I was involved a lot of accident during the race,so I couldn`t show my best performance. But unfortunately the scene I spun out couldn`t see in this video. ^ ^: http://ameblo.jp/frdmf105/entry-10144648917.html The way to use this player is almost same to YOUTUBE. Other race video can find in this homepage - http://ameblo.jp/frdmf105/ - But this homepage is written in Japanese. If you want to know how to see my other video,please give me the comment Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:41:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/R5-Race-Video/14/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/R5-Race-Video/14/ Sorry for your waiting. Recently I have been busy, so I could`t update my weblog. Round 4 was held in July 29th. Qualify 2th Final   3th This race was held in the rainy condition. But it was very few rain and I couldn`t make the most of advantage of my machine. But the top point ranking driver finished in 7th,so I could decrease the distance from the championship top. Next race Round5 will held in September 14th. I`ll do my best!! Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:12:03 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Sorry-for-your-waiting/13/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Sorry-for-your-waiting/13/ Sunday final race was fine weather. I woke up early and went to the circuit because FJ1600 race was the first race of this race day. The race was going to started in the 9:30. When the formation lap was started, one machine stopped from the drive shaft trouble on his way to the starting grid. That machine was going start from 3th position.  My start position was 4th but there are only two cars in front of me. I set my car to 4th place and it was inside of the course. 3th position was vacant and it was good for outside starter especially 5th and 7th. Red lamp was turn on and soon disappear, race was started ! My start wasn`t good and it made 5th and 7th drivers easily to pass me before we reached the first corner. But of course, I was only few inches away from them. I kept 5th position in the first lap, but I missed a bit in the spoon corner and I lost one position. In the second lap,I was following the top group. But I... Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:57:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Round-3-race-report-Final/12/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Round-3-race-report-Final/12/ Round 3 result Qualify - 4 th     Final -  6  th   I could not show the best performance. I have to apologize to all people who are expecting me. In the qualify session, I had pretty good pace but I couldn`t find the space to run my own pace.   It began to rain a bit when the session was started. My team desided to set the dry tyre, and I was the only person who chose it. Then the session was started. The east section was almost dry condition but west section was completely wet . And the rain was seem to become harder. I judged immediately to into the pit to change the tyre. The team gave me the great speedy pit stop. After rejoined the session, I tried to push as hard as possible because my tyre was still cold compare with other drivers. But my first time attack became the top time at this point despite my still cold tyre !! But after the first attack I got into the traffic, and... Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:37:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Round-3-Race-report-Qualify/11/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Round-3-Race-report-Qualify/11/ Round 3 is held in this weekend May 31 and June 1. Practice session is held in Friday and Saturday morning. [30min 6session] Saturday afternoon is Qualify and the Final is held in the morning of the Sunday. Weather forecast said that it will be rain in Friday and Saturday morning. I think my machine and my own driving style will be able to show a good performance especially in the rainy condition. So now I hope to be the rainy in all three days. Even if it won`t be rain I believe that I can get the good result. Of course "the full course"is longer than other west and east course. There is all kinds of  corner and a lot of overtaking point are included. The driver have to keep their concentration to all corner and it is not possible to win if even a little mistake. But the full course has a lot of fun of driving and race tactics. I have a lot of things to do but I`ll do my best to get the my first win !            ... Wed, 28 May 2008 16:09:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Round-3-is-coming/10/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Round-3-is-coming/10/ Today I want to tell you why and how I interested in Motorsports.   When I was child I wasn`t interested in automobile. If anything,I was interested in trains. I was interested in automobile at TV program.   My father loved the automobile and he was watching that TV. My first time watching that TV program, I  couldn`t feel it interesting.   But when my 3 or 4 times seeing, I saw BTCC [British Touring Car championship] on this TV program. I have never seen the motorsports before. But once I saw the hard  and  competitive battle of BTCC, I  became crazy about it ! After that, I began to be interested in the racing of Touring Car all over the world like BTCC DTM STW . Almost of the people who love the motorsports,I think they are thinking formula 1 is a most high competition motor racing. I don`t think so. Of course I think the Formula 1 driver is one of the most popular athlete and the way to become it is as difficult as to get the prize of... Sun, 25 May 2008 16:25:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Why-I-wanna-be-a-Touring-Car-Racer/9/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Why-I-wanna-be-a-Touring-Car-Racer/9/ The final race was different situation compare with the qualify. I thought that final race become more competitive than qualify session. It is vitally if I missed the start or lost the position in the chaos of first few laps. This race was held in the early March and the race day was not so hot. I tried to keep the tire temperature as high as possible in the formation lap. I placed my machine in the 2th position and concentrated to the signal. Then signal turned on and soon turned off !The race was started !! My start wasn`t bad but 3th position driver [NO34] show the great  start, and I lost one position at the first lap. The chaos of first lap forced some driver to retired at the first corner. So the yellow flags were waved at the first corner. The first corner was the only passing point of the Suzuka East course. We had to keep  our position each other until the yellow flags were canceled. After  4 or 5 laps ,the flags were disappeared. ... Tue, 20 May 2008 15:54:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Round-1-race-report/8/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Round-1-race-report/8/ The first race of 2008 season was held in March 9 at Suzuka East course. Most of the driver who finished last year championship in top 5 moverd up to other category. It is essential for me to finish at least in top 5 . The test session before the race,I could always keep my position in top 5.  There is almost no difference between my lap time and top time.But it meant that the difference between the behind drivers were almost nil too. Qualify session was very competitive.The Top time was 55,396  but  16th was 56,394 ! 16 cars were included in only one second ! I could get 2th grid and it was my first front row strat ! But when I recorded my firstest lap time,I missed a bit  at the first corner . So I think I could get the pole position if I could control my car perfectly. Suzuka East course is very short and narrow ,so it is very hard to overtake other machine.And straight speed of my machine was not so good compare with other machine. The... Mon, 19 May 2008 17:33:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/The-race-report-of-2008-R1-Qualify/7/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/The-race-report-of-2008-R1-Qualify/7/ I decided to restart this weblog ! I could not  keep my weblog sufficiently. So I have to say sorry for all people who watched my weblog. Now I`m still working hard every day and I don`t  have enough time to use freely, so I think I can`t write every day. But I try to post at least one in week. I`m looking forward to see  your comment  again !  Of course, I kept  practicing while I neglected this weblog. And I started to enter the real race [not practice]last year  of November. I had big crash in practice session of my debut race but my team repaired my car perfectly in next morning !   I could not get  good position in Qualify - 19th. But I could finished my debut race in  9th ! It was very very excited !     Next round was Decenber 12. It was the Final round of 2007 season.  Qualify was 11th and I could finished in 7th !     I could get the... Thu, 15 May 2008 17:04:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/I-decided-to-restart/6/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/I-decided-to-restart/6/ I introduce to  you minor motor racing in Japan. This is not all. There are a lot of minor races in Japan. But it is too much to tell to you. So I decided to introduce to you some selected series.    ~Formula Car Race~                Formula Challenge Japan                 [Japanese Formula Renault series]                   Formula TOYOTA                 [Onemake Formula series produced by TOYOTA]                       Formula   4                  [Japanese original Formula series]                         Formula SUZUKI                     [Japanese original Formula series]                           Formula Junior 1600                        [Japanese original Formula series]                ~Touring Car Race~        ... Sat, 05 May 2007 16:20:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Other-minor-race-in-Japan/5/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Other-minor-race-in-Japan/5/ Now I'm planning to tell you about Japanese motorsports . There are two major touring car race and two major formula car race in Japan. I will introduce to you minutely about these four races within few weeks. Today,I introduce to you the name and photo only.              -Touring Car Race-                                       Super GT Championship                     Super Endurance Championship              -Formula Car Race-                   Formula Nippon Series                    Formula 3 Japan Series   It is too much to introduce to you other minor race. So I will teach you only the name and photo in tomorrow. Please don't miss it!! Fri, 04 May 2007 15:26:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Japanese-Motorsports/4/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Japanese-Motorsports/4/ I practiced in Suzuka Circuit in April 28th . That day was practice session in Suzuka "West" course . Suzuka circuit consist of three course, West East and Full course .  West course is technical section of Suzuka circuit. I like West course. My problem is "How to turn  the corner with pressing the car to the ground " I　think this opinion is very effective in upper category　too, and my car is fit to use about studying this opinion . Practice was very significant. I recorded my best time in West course. But I couldn't try to my problem enough. I forgot my problem, because I became crazy about my best time. I always say to myself"Don't forget your problem, if you try hard to your problem ,you can get your best time automatically". The good thing in this day was " I could drive the car using the course widely and I could brake firmly more than before ". The... Wed, 02 May 2007 15:55:53 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/My-practice-in-Suzuka-circuit/3/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/My-practice-in-Suzuka-circuit/3/ Today I want to teach you the category that I`m practicing. It is" Formula Junior 1600    FJ1600 ". FJ1600 is very similar to Formula Ford .          The engine is SUBARU 1600cc engine. It has power only 120ps , but machine weight is only 450kg , So It is very easy to drive ,but we can learn a lot of thing to drive a formulacar. Transmission is normal H pattern 5 speed , made by SUBARU . Tire is Dunlop onemake . The most important and significant things in this category is prohibition of front and rear wings. That means we have to drive a car without downforce . It is very unstable,but in other words," we can easily learn how to drive a car delicate and how to make a car posture " more than other formula race.          Race competition revel is also high. There is nearly 30 entry in each race. Almost circuit in Japan are holding FJ1600 race. But All Japan Championship doesn't... Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:31:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/introdaction-about-FJ1600/2/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/introdaction-about-FJ1600/2/ Hi !! everyone !!  How are you? Nice to meet you!! My name is MakitoNakagami .Now I live in Japan . First,I have to tell you why I started this weblog. I want to be the Professional racing car driver in future. Now I`m practicing at Suzuka circuit .[only practice, no race.] I want to race in England or another abroad country . So I want to introduce myself worldwide. [and want to study English^o^:] I`m not a famous driver .  I don`t have a lot of career. But, I don`t give up!!I try hard and become the world champion someday! I`m sorry for my poverty english. If you find a mistake please tell me your r ight English     Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:46:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Self-introduction/1/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/makitonakagami/Self-introduction/1/