SHIBATA takes its Shibata Meeting to WARU CIRCUIT on 17 October

Two names travel with SHIBATA, and the post gives them in katakana: マッカチン, described as the Kanto-area GRK adviser, and セキヤ, a DR-GRK driver. The brief for this piece renders them as Makkachin and Sekiya; the romanizations are ours to check rather than the post's to give.

GRK is the drift RC chassis brand of Shibata Jidosha Co., Ltd., based in Sakahogi, Gifu. The company set up and built its fine-asphalt circuit alongside its car business in 2010, and the first GRK kit followed in May 2012. The brand's own site writes it as DR GRK, for Drift RC; the manuals use SHIBATA GRK.

The invitation in the post is addressed to GRK users, and that is a broader room than a single chassis. The range runs from the AWD GRK GLOBAL and GLOBAL STANDARD kits, through the switchable GLOBAL2 and GS2, to the RWD GRK4, GRK5, GRK5-R, GS2 EVO and GS2 Modified, plus the short-wheelbase GRK-M, which the maker lists as M-size with a 225 mm wheelbase rather than giving it a scale.

What a maker-hosted user day offers that an ordinary open session does not is the pit table: an adviser and a driver who work on the brand's cars, standing next to yours. The post does not describe a program of any kind — no clinic, no demo runs, no judged format — so the honest version is that SHIBATA, Makkachin and Sekiya will be there from around 15:00 and GRK owners are asked to come and drive with them.

The original notice is SHIBATA's post on the R31HOUSE RC blog, published 5 October 2026. Background on the chassis line is on the brand's own GRK about page and product history page.