Nikko Drift Victory 2026 & Kanto All-Star GP: How to Enter and Watch

FLUKE (FLUKE走行会), an organiser based in Utsunomiya, runs both of the competition dates at Nikko Circuit (Tochigi) in November 2026. Nikko Drift Victory 2026 Rd.3, the season finale, is on Saturday 21 November, capped at 60 cars, with entry from ¥19,800. The Kanto All-Star Drift GP uses the same circuit on Tuesday 10 November — but read the official wording carefully: that date is the repechage (敗者復活戦, the last-chance round) plus a ¥12,500 weekday track day, not the prefecture qualifier, which already ran on 14 August. Anyone who is not driving pays ¥1,000 at the gate. Every date and price here was checked on the official pages on 4 September 2026.

Why these dates come from FLUKE, not from the circuit

Nikko Circuit publishes its running schedule one month at a time, and on 4 September the newest sheet on the official site was October’s; there is no November or December page yet. So both dates come from the organiser — FLUKE’s site, its 2026 series outline and its entry forms — and the circuit’s sheet will catch up later. That is normal for Nikko, where most drift days are organiser-run (our Nikko Circuit guide explains the two-door system). Treat the dates as firm-but-organiser-issued and keep them on your trip calendar, where we re-verify them monthly. The 2026 outline names FLUKE as promoter with Nikko Circuit as supporter; FLUKE’s phone (028-672-8680) goes unanswered on event days, so it asks for its web form first.

Nikko Drift Victory 2026 Rd.3 — what you would be entering

Nikko Drift Victory is a three-round series run entirely at Nikko: Round 1 on 29 April, Round 2 on 9 August, Round 3 on 21 November. Our calendar carried the finale as a December date at first, on the strength of the 2025 final on 14 December; FLUKE’s 2026 outline and its entry form both list Saturday 21 November, and the home page adds that the field is limited to 60 starters because the round runs on winter hours.

Tansō (単走) is a solo judged run; tsuisō (追走) is the chase battle, lead car and chase car judged together. The NA class is for naturally aspirated cars.

The solo series has eligibility lines: no D1 or FDJ1 starts in 2026, fewer than 10 points in D1 Lights, and no top-8 finish in the previous year’s tandem series. The tandem series has no restriction. Practice is two 10-minute heats. Qualifying is two solo runs after a warm-up lap; the top 16 go into a D1GP-style tandem bracket (top 8 in NA tandem), while the solo class sends its top 12 into a one-run final. Points run 25-21-18-16 down to 1 for 16th, and series prize money exists for the two tandem classes only.

How to enter — and where it stops being simple

Step 1 is where an overseas entrant stalls. The entry page exists in Japanese only, the form assumes a Japanese address, and every payment route is domestic. None of that is a nationality bar — the rules contain none — it is simply a system built for locals.

Kanto All-Star Drift GP: what 10 November actually is

The Kanto All-Star Drift GP is a regional knockout: drivers qualify by prefecture group, then meet at a final. Both 2026 qualifiers are done — Saitama, Ibaraki and Kanagawa on Sunday 31 May (run by Ito Auto), and Tochigi, Gunma, Chiba and Tokyo on Friday 14 August (run by FLUKE); the official form gives Nikko Circuit as the venue. What remains is Tuesday 10 November, which FLUKE’s entry page labels the repechage — a last-chance round for drivers who missed the cut — run alongside a weekday track day.

The qualifier form gives the day’s flow: reception from 07:30, two practice runs, two solo qualifying runs, one final run to settle the day, then free running. The final takes 14 representative places per prefecture plus 2 ladies’ places. The 8-heat track day on 10 November has no reverse-direction sessions (FLUKE drops those in November) and ends with a one-run drift contest.

Our own calendar labelled 10 November the prefecture qualifier; the organiser’s pages say otherwise, and we are correcting it. If a judged series appeals more than a one-off, the D1 NEXT round FLUKE also runs at Nikko is in our D1 NEXT series explainer.

Can you watch, and how does the day run?

Nikko Circuit restricts walk-in spectators on normal running days, citing on-site accidents, so a FLUKE event day is the reliable way to see this circuit used properly. The 2026 Nikko Drift Victory outline puts a ¥1,000 entry fee on anyone who is not a participant — it names companions and mechanics — with no advance name registration, and FLUKE’s ticket page says no current event needs an advance ticket; you pay at the gate. Each driver may register one spotter, who signs a pledge and pays ¥2,000 insurance at the event office. Whether walk-up spectators with no driver are handled the same way is not spelled out, and the circuit bans photographing participants without consent, so ask before you film. Winter hours explain the 60-car cap: expect an early gate and a short afternoon.

Getting there has not changed since our track guide: the circuit is in Utsunomiya, not Nikko town, about 2 hours from Tokyo by car via Utsunomiya IC and Route 293, and a car is the practical way in. How Nikko compares with the other Kanto venues is in Drifting in Kanto, and the rest of the month’s dates sit in our November 2026 trip planner.