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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