FDJ3 2026 Rd.3 Ebisu West Results: Oike Wins from 9th, Notsu Leads

Minato Oike (大池水杜, #371) won FDJ3 2026 Round 3 at Ebisu Circuit (Fukushima), on the West Course, on Sunday 5 July 2026, beating Issa Minakawa (皆川一茶, #135) in the final; Ryu Funabashi (船橋竜, #64) was classified third and Atsushi Tarumi (樽見淳, #222) fourth. Championship leader Souta Notsu (野津颯太, #80) went out in the Top 16, but the official standings after Round 3 still read Notsu 186, Minakawa 171, Funabashi 169, with three one-day rounds left. This report was written up on 7 September 2026 from the official result sheet, which is still headed 暫定リザルト, provisional, and every number in it was checked on the official pages on 7 Sep 2026.

Who won Round 3, and how?

FDJ3 is the entry tier of Formula Drift Japan and runs one-day rounds. This one ran on the 2,103 m West Course (Nishi) at Ebisu Circuit in Nihonmatsu, the course that also hosts D1 Grand Prix; our Ebisu Circuit guide covers the courses and the trip from Tokyo. Admission was ¥3,000 and parking ¥1,000, sold on the day only, with qualifying at 09:40–12:30 and the Top 16 to the final at 14:10–16:50.

The morning was tansō (単走), solo judged runs, two per driver, ranked on the better score. Forty-three cars appear on the sheet, 38 with a score. Yoshinobu Shinbo (新保佳延, #13) topped it with an 87 backed by an 85 in a JZX90 Mark II; Funabashi’s Z33 Fairlady Z was second on 85, Minakawa third on 82 with a 76 backup, Tarumi fourth on an 82 with no second score, and Oike’s 77 only ninth. The Top 16 cut fell at 74 with four drivers on that score: Yoshimi Mori (森修, #72) went through on his 72 backup and the other three did not. Round 1 winner Ricky Peres (リッキー ぺレス, #70), 23rd, and Muneo Miyachi (宮地むねお, #670), 32nd, both missed the cut and left with 1 point.

The afternoon was tsuisō (追走), the tandem chase battles, two runs per pairing with lead and chase swapped. Oike’s Silvia went through eighth-qualifier Otgonbaatar Zoljargal (オトゴンバートル ゾルジャラガル, #98), then Shinbo in the Top 8, then Tarumi in the semi-final. Minakawa came through the other half past Rion Irifune (入舩梨桜, #39), SEIKA (#19) and Funabashi. The official sheet lists outcomes, not the judges’ scores, so we will not invent them: Oike won the final, and 2 qualifying points plus 100 for the win gave him 102, after 1 point in each of the first two rounds. The sheet gives both semi-final losers 60 battle points and separates them on qualifying, so Funabashi’s 5 for second in the morning put him third on 65 and Tarumi fourth on 63. Notsu, the points leader, qualified 12th on 76 and lost his Top 16 battle to fifth-qualifier Douglas Ozaki (尾崎ドグラス, #107), 22 points.

The bracket: which battles are worth rewatching?

Two Top 16 results ran against the qualifying order, Oike over Zoljargal and SEIKA, 11th on the sheet, over sixth-qualifier Gommert David (ゴマート デイビッド, #81); the Top 8 produced the day’s upset, Oike over Shinbo.

Who leads the FDJ3 championship after Round 3?

The official standings page on formulad.jp already carries all three rounds, so the totals below are a straight transcription, checked on 7 September 2026. The before-Ebisu column is our sum of the official Round 1–2 columns on the same page.

Three rounds, three different winners: Peres at Fuji Speedway Drift Park, Notsu at Suzuka Twin, Oike at Ebisu West. Minakawa arrived seventh in the table and left second, 15 behind; Funabashi went from fifth to third, 17 behind. The scale, read off the result sheet, is 100 battle points for the win, 80 for the runner-up, 60 for each semi-final loser, 40 for a Top 8 exit and 20 for a Top 16 exit, plus 6 for qualifying P1 down to 1 for missing the cut, so each remaining round is worth up to 106. How FDJ3 sits under FDJ2 and the top class is in our Formula Drift Japan guide.

Where can you watch the replay?

The morning’s qualifying is a separate upload on the same channel.

Where the season went next

Round 4 is the one you can still be at: FDJ3 Rd.4 at Okuibuki Motorpark (Shiga) on Sunday 20 September 2026, another one-day round. The official notice of 25 August puts admission at ¥3,000 for anyone of junior-high age and up, elementary-age children free, and parking at ¥1,500 per car or ¥1,000 per motorcycle, all sold on the day with no advance tickets; the timetable and entry list were still to come when we checked. Driving in it is not an option, because FDJ3 sells a season entry rather than single rounds and 2026 applications closed in February. Then come Rd.5 at Fuji Speedway Drift Park (Shizuoka) on Sunday 18 October and the finale, Rd.6 at Tsukuruma Circuit Nasu (Tochigi), on Sunday 1 November, ticket prices unpublished on 7 September.

Okuibuki is the round that needs a plan: it is a set of ski-resort car parks above Maibara, and our Okuibuki Motor Park guide found that the resort’s own pages still point you to a bus from Ōmi-Nagaoka Station that Maibara City abolished in October 2020. What runs instead is a weekday-only nine-seat wagon, no use on a Sunday, and a shared taxi booked by phone in Japanese at least an hour ahead, and both stop at Kōzuhara, about 3 km short of the gate. The ¥1,500 shuttle from JR Maibara is a ski-season product with no published green-season equivalent, and the pickup from Kōzuhara that the resort’s FAQ offers is a prior-notice phone call, in Japanese, on no English page.

Every FDJ3, FDJ2 and Formula Drift Japan date left in 2026 sits on the event calendar, rechecked against formulad.jp each month.