CBS Rd.4 closes the Chukyo season at Kanazawa OVER TOP

A one-off meeting rewards whoever is reading the layout best that evening. A series totted up across rounds rewards something slower: turning up with the car working, round after round, on whatever the venue is running that day.

That is the shape of this result. Two drivers SHIBATA refers to as young DR-GRK drivers finished second and third across the whole season, behind a TEAM Reve D driver. The post frames it as a season to be proud of rather than a finale upset, and signs off by telling Kagawa and Sodai to go again next year.

What the post does not give is how those positions were earned — whether CBS scores solo qualifying runs, tandem battles, or both, and how points carried between rounds. None of that is stated, and none of it should be assumed from other series.

DR-GRK is the drift RC chassis brand of Shibata Jidosha Co., Ltd. of Sakahogi, Gifu, which built a fine-asphalt RC drift circuit beside its car business in 2010 and released the first GRK in May 2012. Its current 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. The report is posted under the SHIBATA name on the R31HOUSE RC blog; the brand's own site writes it as "DR GRK".

Reve D is the Japanese RC drift maker headed by Minoru Aso, whose first chassis is the RWD RDX and whose steering gyro is the REVOX. Haruto is named in the post as a TEAM Reve D driver.

The post does not say which chassis any of the three drove at Rd.4, so no car is being credited here.

Four things are worth naming as missing rather than filled in:

• The exact date of Rd.4 and how many rounds made up the 2026 season. The post names Rd.4 as the final round and nothing more.
• The format. Qualifying and tandem battles are the common RC competition structure, but this post does not say CBS uses either.
• The surface. Not stated.
• The full finishing order. Only the top three are published.

For anyone following the Chukyo scene, the primary document is the blog entry itself: SHIBATA's CBS Rd.4 report, posted with photos from the final round.