Furuppi RC posts the Kanto RC Masters open class final from Tsukuba RC Park

The meeting ran more than one class. Alongside the open class final, Furuppi RC filmed a premium class final at the same circuit on the same date, posted as its own video.

A split like this is one of the more useful things a regional Japanese meeting can show a reader abroad: an event that can fill two finals in a day is carrying enough entries to separate drivers by level or by rules. What separates open from premium here — entry eligibility, equipment restrictions, a spec tyre, chassis or motor limits — is not stated in either video's description, and the magazine has not seen the event's own regulations. So the split is reported as a fact and the reason behind it is left open until the organiser's material confirms it.

For the same reason, this piece does not describe the judging format. Tandem battles with lead and chase runs are the common shape of RC drift competition, but which rounds were run, how qualifying was scored and whether a tie goes to a rerun are things only the event's own rulebook can settle, and that rulebook is not in the material.

Tsukuba RC Park is Yokomo's own track and headquarters at Yatabe in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, roughly an hour from Tokyo, and the place the scene has long called Yatabe Arena. It was renovated in 2022 into a two-storey main building with an air-conditioned drift course and a separate touring-car track, and it hosts the Yokomo Drift Meeting and the All Japan E-Drift Championship.

One detail that travels usefully: Yokomo sells springs in a spec it labels P-TILE (YATABE ARENA), which points at the surface this building is associated with. What the drift course was laid out as on 27 September — wall positions, clipping points, lane widths — and what tyre the event mandated, if any, are not given in the footage description, and should come from the event or the venue rather than from a frame grab.

The reason this final is visible outside Ibaraki at all is that someone stood at the barrier with a camera and then edited and posted it. Furuppi RC describes the channel's work in its own description as radio-control drift video, including coverage of competitions, and the two uploads from 27 September are the only public account of this meeting the magazine has found.

That is worth naming because results sheets from regional Japanese meetings rarely surface in English. The finals exist in the record as footage, credited to the person who filmed them, and the gaps around them — finalists, the winner, the format — belong to the organiser to publish, not to a writer to guess at.

• Open class final: 関東RC MASTERS オープンクラス決勝, Tsukuba RC Park, 27 September 2026
• Premium class final, same circuit and date: the companion upload

Both are on the Furuppi RC channel.