King Drift Trivia

~Keiichi Tsuchiya's homecourse is the Usui touge
~Holds the Usui course record with his NSX-R
~When "Dori Dori" was a freshman in circuit racing, he got his race license suspended due to the illegal racing that he was still doing. In the movie, Shuto Kousoku Trial Max, he advises someone to leave the illegal racing scene behind if he is to become involved with professional racing. That is as if Keiichi as himself in the movie advises that to a fictional character using his real life experience.
~His life in driving has parallelism to the Initial D main character, Takumi, as both of them started out to explore their local Touge while doing regular deliveries for their family business.
~He has raced in NASCAR-sanctioned exhibition races at Suzuka Circuit (Suzuka Thunder 100) and at Twin Ring Motegi Superspeedway for the 1998 NASCAR-sanctioned exhibition and 1999 NASCAR Grand National Division, AutoZone West Series races at the circuit, both named the Coca-Cola 500k.
~Trademark color is Jade Green, which appears on his overall, helmet and is the adopted color of the company he used to own, Kei Office. Also was the color of the D1 Grand Prix Kei Office S15 Silvia of driver and employee Yasuyuki Kazama who also wears a suit similar in pattern. On Initial D 3rd Stage the color can also be seen on a sportsbike rider overall and helmet who overtook Takumi as he was en-route to an initiation battle with Ryosuke Takahashi. The color of Tomo's racing suit from Initial D 4th Stage is also jade green, and in similar pattern to his suit.
~In 2006 he made a cameo as a fisherman in the movie The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
~He owns a new suspension company, after Kei-Office had been bought by ORC, dubbed DG5.