Tetsuya Hibino

Tetsuya Hibino
Tetsuya Hibino
	Hibino (right) at 2019 Tokyo Auto Salon alongside Manabu Orido
Nationality	Japan
Born	April 10, 1974 (age 50); Aichi, Japan
D1 Grand Prix career
Debut season	2002
Current team	Shibata Racing Team
Former teams	SunRise, Gulf Racing Zestino Tire, K'Spec, Droo-P
Best finish	4th in 2014
Previous series
Russian Drift Series; D1 Street Legal	(previous series with line breaks)
Championship titles
	(championship titles)

Tetsuya Hibino (日比野哲也, Hibino Tetsuya) (born 10 April 1974, Aichi) is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Shibata Racing Team.

Like many of the drivers in the D1 Grand Prix, he is the owner of his own tuning shop called SunRise, and works on his car himself. Before starting in D1GP, he was part of a team called, "Dropout Racing". He is quite a popular driver as he is one of the best drivers of the Toyota AE86 chassis in the D1GP today. He began competing in the D1GP in the sixth round in 2002, though he did not get any recognition until round 3 of 2004 when out of nowhere he defeated many well known names to take second place, and first exhibited his jumping drift which took the crowd and judges by storm.

He has always drove the Toyota Corolla Levin since he began and the combination of its light weight and his aggressive driving style make him a formidable opponent. As he carried on in D1GP, he has another Levin which is a 3-door while his N.A. Cream-Beige Levin AE86 is a 2-door coupe. The 3-door Levin is heavily modified, featuring the SR20 engine from a Nissan Silvia which gives a significant performance advantage over the standard engine. Though some of the more hardcore AE86 fans do not like this Nissan transplant, it is fairly common, but he has stuck with the stock AE86 live-axle rear end as some would use a S13 rear end.

In 2007, when he advanced to the finals in the Suzuka round, he purposely swerved into Masao Suenaga's path during the start of their first run and the judges originally placed him as 2nd but he was later disqualified after the tournament finished. He had a decent season but placed 11th overall.

In 2009, he changed to DRoo-P's AE85 which Toshiki Yoshioka had driven until the mid of 2008 for the newly built DRoo-P SC430. The AE85 was heavily changed with a new exterior design and a matte black. He earned his first win at Rd.3 in Okayama alongside Daigo Saito. He placed 5th overall in the series ranking.

In 2010, he picked up the sponsorship with UPGARAGE in collaboration with his main sponsor DRoo-P, which also required the change of his livery to grey and yellow. He earned his 2nd win Rd.5 in Ebisu going against Ken Nomura in the finals. Some would say it was considered a revenge match as Nomura had won at Rd.3 in Ebisu for the 2004 season. He also started to enter Drift Muscle races started by Keiichi Tsuchiya from 2011. He drives the Nissan Silvia S15 instead of the AE86 in the Drift Muscle series.

In 2012, he changed cars from the AE86 to the newer Toyota 86 from AE86. As Dunlop had dropped out of the series, he automatically changed tire sponsors with Falken.

In 2013, he earned his third win at Rd.5 in Huis Ten Bosch. This was also the first victory for a Toyota 86 in the series

At 2015, he started to drive Toyota Supra and changed to Zestino Tyre. He entered RDS in Russia and won all championship during this year. He also won championship D1 PRIMRING GP in Russia. Hibino's result was 2nd place at D1GP Rd.6 and D1GP WORLD CHAMPIONS. He started to join drift race in China from 2015. His D1GP series ranking was 6th place this year.

Hibino became member of GULF RACING ZESTINO TIRE from 2017. He changed his car to Honda S2000. Hibino won TANSO Championship at 2017 D1GP TSUKUBA DRIFT Rd.3, D1GP China in Hefei and D1 PRIMRING GP in Russia.

From 2019, he changed his car to Nissan Silvia (S14). The front of this car is designed to look like a Plymouth Barracuda by Rocket Bunny parts.

Complete Drifting Results[edit]

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Last 4 [Semi-final]
Blue	Last 8 [Quarter-final]
Purple	Last 16 (16) [1st Tsuiou Round OR Tandem Battle] (Numbers are given to indicate Top 10 finish)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ) (Given to indicate that the driver has been stripped of their position through disqualification)
White	First Round (TAN) [Tansou OR Qualifying Single Runs]
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)

When driver's position are highlighted in blue, this indicates either the driver earned 100pt or 100pt tansou (solo run) bonus has been awarded, with the latter being in use for Pre-2005.

D1 Grand Prix[edit]

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Position	Points
2002	Dropout Racing	Toyota Corolla Levin AE86	BHH	EBS	SGO	TKB	EBS	SEK 16	NIK		-	0
2003	Dropout Racing	Toyota Corolla Levin AE86	TKB TAN	BHH DNQ	SGO TAN	FUJ DNQ	EBS	SEK DNQ	TKB DNQ		-	0
2004	Dropout Racing	Mazda RX-7 FD3S	IRW	SGO DNQ							9	30
2004	Dropout Racing	Toyota Corolla Levin AE86			EBS 2	APS 16	ODB 16	EBS 5	TKB 16		9	30
2005	SunRise	Toyota Corolla Levin AE86	IRW TAN	ODB DNQ	SGO 7	APS 2	EBS TAN	FUJ 16	TKB 16		11	28
2006	SunRise	Toyota Corolla Levin AE86	IRW 16	SGO TAN	FUJ DNQ	APS DNQ	EBS TAN	SUZ 4	FUJ TAN	IRW TAN	16	16
2007	SunRise	Toyota Corolla Levin AE86	EBS 5	FUJ 8	SUZ DSQ	SGO TAN	EBS 7	APS TAN	FUJ 16		11	29
2008	SunRise	Toyota Corolla Levin AE86	EBS 8	FUJ TAN	SUZ 16	OKY 3	APS TAN	EBS	FUJ		12	30

Russian Drift Series GP[edit]

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	Position	Points
2019	Fresh Auto	Toyota Supra JZA80	MRW 11	ATR 1	NRING 4	ADM 5	RRING 5	SOC 11	3	907

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