Kansai All-Star Drift GP 2026 Results: Who Won at Meihan

Hiroyuki Fukuyama won the 27th Kansai All-Star Drift GP at Meihan Sportsland (Nara) on Sunday 1 November 2026, taking his fourth title and his second in a row. He beat a final that included two current D1 Grand Prix drivers, Masato Kawabata and Ryu Nakamura, and Riki Nakamura won the U25 and ladies class. The organiser had not posted official results when we checked on 2 November 2026, so these come from spectators’ posts on the day and are provisional until the results page updates.

Kansai All-Star (関西オールスター) is a closed regional final: seven prefectures each run a qualifier, and only their survivors start at Meihan. Watching costs ¥1,500 at the gate, and a final with D1 Grand Prix drivers in it costs the same.

Who won Kansai All-Star 2026?

A spectator filmed the final from the crowd and posted it that afternoon. By 2 November the clip had passed 23,000 views on X, which says something about how many people wanted to see it:

The “fourth” checks out against the organiser’s own list of past champions, which shows Fukuyama winning in 2021, 2023 and 2025, each time in a 180SX.

Riki Nakamura won the U25 class of the Nara qualifier on 20 July in an S15, and finished second in the U25 final at Meihan in 2024.

Who was in the individual final?

Three drivers, and every one of them came through a prefectural qualifier like everybody else in the field.

A week earlier, both Kawabata and Ryu Nakamura had reached the Best 8 at D1 Grand Prix Rd.7 at Autopolis. A D1 driver coming fifth in his prefectural qualifier in May and then reaching the final in November is a fair picture of how deep the Kansai field is. Ryu Nakamura’s father Naoki has won this event five times, more than anyone, and was the 2021 and 2024 D1 Grand Prix champion.

How busy was it, and were there overseas visitors?

Busy. The organiser publishes a single spectator count each year, and apart from the closed 2020 event and a wet 2021, Kansai All-Star has drawn about a thousand people every year since 2019:

2020 ran behind closed doors. For 2026, spectators’ posts describe the same pattern. One regular asked people to stop putting outdoor chairs on the stone-step stand because more people come to watch every year. Another said they spent about six hours packed in and standing. Two days before the event, the organiser asked spectators to arrive a little later than the drivers, who were let in from 6:00, because the gate gets congested; running started at 8:00.

On overseas visitors: a contact of ours who was at Meihan on the day told us visitors from outside Japan were a noticeable part of the crowd. The organiser does not break its count down by country, so treat that as one eyewitness impression, not a number. Clips from the day were also shared widely on X and Instagram.

Do overseas drivers compete in Kansai All-Star?

Yes, and one has won it. Casey Dhnaram, an Australian driver based in Kansai, is on the organiser’s list of past champions for 2022 (S13), and he won the 2026 Nara individual qualifier on 20 July, which qualified him for 1 November. How he got on this time was not public on 2 November 2026. He is on our tracker of overseas drivers racing in Japan.

He is not the only one. The Nara qualifier sheet also lists names written in katakana as Shane (third) and Jade (twelfth), and the Shiga qualifier on 26 July had Jordan Tweedie third. The route in is the same for everyone: a prefectural qualifier between May and July, entered and briefed in Japanese.

What does the day look like?

The organiser’s own edit of the 2026 event was not up on 2 November 2026. The 2025 version went up on YouTube about six months after that event, and it is the best preview of the day short of being there:

▶ 26th Kansai All-Star Drift GP 2025 (official) VisualLaboratory · organiser's video partner click to load from youtube

How do you go to Kansai All-Star in 2027?

There is no date for the 28th running yet, but the shape of it is predictable from the last four years:

Everything you need for the gate (the fee breakdown, parking, the timetable shape) is in our Kansai All-Star 2026 date, price and access guide, and most of it carries over year to year. The circuit itself is covered in our Meihan Sportsland guide.

The hard part is not the ¥1,500. Meihan sits in the hills of Nara with no station or bus stop at the gate, the event starts at dawn, and the only organiser contact is Japanese. Our write-up of how to reach Meihan Sportsland without a car shows how thin the public transport is on a Sunday morning.

If autumn 2027 is too far off, the rest of the region’s drift dates are on the TSUISO event calendar, and drifting in Kansai: the tracks guide covers what you can watch or drive between now and then.