DMR WIN'S JAPAN's new layout, filmed from directly above

An overhead camera is the one angle that answers the questions a driver asks before loading the car: how the walls run into each other, where the layout opens out, how much road there is between direction changes. From the stand at the edge of a track you read a layout in fragments — the section in front of you, the section your car is about to arrive at. From above you read the whole loop at once, including the parts that decide whether two cars can run lead and chase through a transition without the chase car running out of room.

That is the value of the format rather than a claim about this particular layout's corners. The video does not come with a diagram, lap commentary or a designer's walkthrough, and the description does not describe the course. Anyone planning a weekend trip should watch the pass itself rather than take a secondhand description of it, including this one.

The description calls DMR WIN'S JAPAN a large circuit for RC drift "plus alpha" and gives an address at 439-1 Minami-Tamatsukuri, Tako-machi, Katori-gun, Chiba, with business days listed as Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, 10:00 to 0:00. The circuit keeps its own site, which is where a visitor should check those hours against the day they intend to travel.

What is not in the video description: the surface. Carpet, P-tile, polished concrete and painted floor all ask for different tires and a different setup, and a first-timer wants that settled before packing. The description also does not say when the new layout opened, or whether the previous one has been retired entirely.

The same description links two DMR parts on the Mikasu-Works BASE shop: a front knuckle in a normal type and a front knuckle in a high-upper type. A front knuckle is where a chassis carries its steering geometry — KPI, caster, the upper arm pickup and, with it, how much steering angle the front end can reach — so "high-upper" names a different upper mounting position rather than a finish option.

The listings are what they are: product pages. The video description does not state which chassis the knuckles fit, nor does it give a price, and this piece does not carry one. Both items sit on the DMR online shop, which is run by the same operation that posted the layout video — worth knowing as context for why a parts link and a track announcement share a page.

The overhead pass of the new layout is on the DMR Mikasu-Works channel: watch the DMR WIN'S JAPAN new layout video on YouTube. Credit for the footage goes to that channel, which also runs a membership program linked from the same description.