Moto Miwa's Full Interview from our previous Irwindale Speedway Tribute Episode
Moto Miwa is the founder of Club4AG, co-founder of Drift Association. He's the man behind providing instruction to some of America's first drifting events in the early 2000s as well as providing track support for some of the earliest Option Video and D1GP events in the USA.
00:17 Moto intro
00:37 Creation, function of Drift Association
02:50 U.S. Drift scene before Irwindale Speedway
04:59 Choosing Irwindale Speedway to host drifting events
06:52 Why D1 chose Irwindale Speedway to host events
08:31 The first D1 events held at Irwindale
10:05 The creation of the first drift course in a banked oval
13:16 Watching the first drifting along the walls of Irwindale Speedway
15:15 His favorite D1 memory (Watching Nomuken drift around the newly designed course)
17:27 How Irwindale Speedway’s amphitheater structure creates a sound like no other
19:30 Explaining how drifting’s uniqueness caters to the Irwindale Speedway layout
22:37 Thoughts on Irwindale’s closing
25:16 Moto’s experiences at Irwindale Speedway are collectively special
26:00 Transitioning from running D1 events to Formula D events
27:55 How drivers/vendors in Japan all miss Irwindale tremendously
30:04 How American fans cheered D1 so enthusiastically compared to Japanese fans
31:12 Moto displays his pit shirts from the years
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