FDJ2 2026 Rd.2 Suzuka Twin Results: Nakamura Wins, Leads by 3

Riki Nakamura (中村龍輝, #1) won FDJ2 2026 Round 2 at Suzuka Twin Circuit (Mie) on Sunday 24 May 2026, beating Jayce (ジェイス, #23) in the final; HINATO (#620) was classified third and Toshihiko Mizuno (水野俊彦, #104) fourth on the same 67 points. It was the 13-year-old’s first FDJ2 win, in only his second start in the class, and it flipped the championship: the official report has him leading on 189 points, three clear of Jayce. This report was written up on 7 September 2026 from the official result sheet and report, and the sheet is still headed 暫定リザルト, provisional; every number here was checked on the official pages on 7 Sep 2026.

Who won FDJ2 Round 2, and how?

FDJ2 is the development tier of the Formula Drift Japan ladder, between the top class and the grassroots FDJ3; how the three tiers fit together is in our Formula Drift Japan guide. Round 2 was a standalone FDJ2 event: the top class had run its own Suzuka Twin round seven days earlier, on 16–17 May. With 38 cars on the sheet and 32 places in the bracket, this was a Top 32 round rather than the Top 16 the class runs on shared weekends. The venue itself, an 820 m drift-only D course, is covered in our Suzuka Twin Circuit guide.

Saturday 23 May was tansō (単走), solo judged runs, two each. Drizzle was falling but the track was dry for the first runs, and three drivers finished them tied on 84: Yohei Yamaguchi (山口洋平, #28), out in his S15 rather than the Supra he brought in for 2026, then Shoei Tokuyama (徳山昇英, #151) in a JZS151 Crown, then Nakamura. Run two started dry, was stopped in the middle to repair the line, and then the rain arrived properly: six drivers in a row scored zero. It eased around Kei Maeda’s (前田慶, #86) run, the track went half-wet, and Ryusuke Aoki (青木竜介, #109) posted 82 in the second Crown. Tokuyama’s own 82 on the drying surface settled it: top qualifier on 84 and 82, from Yamaguchi on 84 and 76, Nakamura on 84 and 0, and Fuuga Kimura (木村楓雅, #63) fourth on 82 and 80. Tomoharu Nishizaki (西崎智治, #727) took the last bracket place with a 64; six drivers left with 1 point each.

Sunday was tsuisō (追走), the tandem chase battles, run under cloud on a dry track. Nakamura’s route went through Yuki Takamiya (高宮悠樹, #418), Hideki Nono (野々英喜, #789), Mizuno and then Jayce: 5 qualifying points plus 100 for the win, 105. Jayce scored 83 from 3 plus 80. The final was a rerun of the season opener at Fuji, which Jayce won and where Nakamura’s car gave trouble; this time the deciding call was a deduction against Jayce’s lead run for a small second outer zone. The official report describes a podium swept by teenagers; Jayce and HINATO are VEICOLO team-mates in matching JZX100s, which made their semi-final an intra-team battle.

The bracket: which battles are worth rewatching?

The Top 32 went almost to form, with four exceptions: Kazuyuki Tomite (冨手和行, #210) over Valentina Piaz (#45), Kazuya Nagahiro (永広和也, #99) over Qian Zhun (銭諄, #319), Takamiya over Happy Kobayashi (#103) and Tomoyuki Kitashiba (北芝倫之, #48) over Maeda. Then the Top 16 turned upside down. Tokuyama needed a One More Time to see off Tomite, who raced in the top class until last season. Manato Mogi (茂木真那斗, #270) and HINATO, both 14, put in near-faultless runs before Mogi’s shallow angle cost him the call. Kimura made mistakes leading in the third outer zone and chasing in the second, and Jayce went through. Yuki Inaoka (稲岡優樹, #34) beat Aoki on another One More Time: three battles in a row to the lower qualifier.

The Great 8 finished the job. HINATO, ninth in qualifying, knocked out top qualifier Tokuyama after two more One More Times; Yamaguchi put a wheel off while leading and lost to Mizuno by that margin; and Nono’s engine bay caught fire after his first run against Nakamura, so his second was a retirement.

Who led the FDJ2 championship after Round 2?

The 2026 FDJ2 standings page now carries four rounds, so the last column below is our sum of the official per-round points on it, checked on 7 September 2026; the middle column is the official table as it stood after Round 1. The Round 2 report gives the same top two, Nakamura 189 and a three-point lead, though it prints 196 beside Jayce, which fits neither that gap nor the per-round columns; 186 matches both.

The scale, read off the result sheet, is 100 battle points for the win, then 80, 64, 48, 32 and 16 for each earlier exit and 1 for missing the cut, plus qualifying points from 7 for P1 down to 2 for 17th to 32nd. A Top 32 round is therefore worth up to 107. Two rounds in, Nakamura and Jayce had met in both finals and were 78 points clear of third.

Where the season went next

Nakamura won FDJ2 Rd.3 at Ebisu Circuit West Course on 21 June, beating Mogi in the final and stretching the lead to 53 points. At FDJ2 Rd.4 at Sportsland SUGO on 11 July it was Tokuyama who won his first FDJ2 race, with Nakamura second and the lead out to 103.

The next round you can still get to is FDJ2 Rd.5 at Okuibuki Motorpark (Shiga) on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September 2026. Admission is ¥3,500 a day, car parking ¥1,500 and motorcycle parking ¥1,000, all sold at the gate only with no advance sale, and each day needs its own ticket. The finale is FDJ2 Rd.6 at Okayama International Circuit on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 October 2026, where an advance ticket is ¥3,800 and a same-day one ¥5,000.

Getting up the valley is the part that catches people out. The ¥1,500 station shuttle from JR Maibara is a ski-season product, and the resort’s access page still points at a bus that Maibara City abolished on 1 October 2020. What runs today from Ōmi-Nagaoka Station is a weekday nine-passenger Maichan Bus, ¥800, last one back from the valley at 13:55, and a shared taxi at the same fare that has to be phoned in Japanese at least an hour ahead. Both stop at Kōzuhara, roughly 3 km short of the car parks, and the pickup that closes the gap is another Japanese phone call. Every leg, with timetables and numbers, is in our Okuibuki Motor Park guide.

Every remaining 2026 date, FDJ2, FDJ and D1 alike, sits on the event calendar, rechecked each month.