Dream Tour: the Kanto RC drift series that travels to other people's tracks

Dream Tour is run by the Drift Track group. In April 2024, RC Monkey reported that the VEGA Circuit tracks at Oiso, Asumigaoka and Yachiyo were renamed Drift Track after a change of operator.

The series entered its second year in 2025 and, per the organiser's 2025 announcement post, became a tour of Kanto circuits rather than a single-venue championship. Two aims are stated there: to deepen understanding of RC drift competition and improve skills, and to find the variety of RC drifting through contact with drivers at each circuit. That second aim is the structural one — the calendar takes the series to venues the organisers do not run. Round 1 of 2025 was at DMR WIN'S JAPAN in Tako, Chiba.

For 2025 the judging was set at two judges: head judge Hayato Matsuzaki of Rêve D, described in the post as a current RC drift car designer, plus one judge per round. Rêve D's own About page lists Matsuzaki as a team member and as the 2006 IFMAR off-road world champion. Who is judging the 2026 rounds is not confirmed in the posts we have.

The 2026 standings published after Round 3 are split three ways: a solo ranking, a "Pure" ranking and an overall ranking. The organiser describes Pure as the strongest privateer.

What that means as an eligibility rule — who counts as a privateer, whether any team or maker support disqualifies an entrant, whether you opt in or are placed — is not spelled out in the posts we read. Anyone entering on that basis should ask the organisers directly rather than assume a definition borrowed from another series.

The posts we have also do not state the chassis classes, the surface at each host circuit, or whether a spec tyre applies at any round. Those are the details that decide what you pack, so treat them as open questions until the blog or the host track says otherwise.

The 2026 final is set for 7-8 November at Drift Track Yachiyo, in a post signed by track manager Junta Shiroi. Drift Track Yachiyo sits inside the RC Champ Chiba store at 138-6 Owadashinden, Yachiyo.

The same venue is listed as hosting the R.C.D.C. Kanto qualifier on 1 November — that is the Japan R/C Drift Community, the body behind the All Japan E-Drift Championship. For a driver in the region, that makes early November two separate weekends at the same floor, under two different sets of rules.

The 2026 Round 1 and Round 2 venues are not identified in the material in front of us, and neither is DriftBASE's location.

The useful thing about a touring series, if you are new to competition, is that it hands you a reason to drive somewhere you have never driven. The circuits change; the judging framework does not. That is a cheap way to find out how much of your setup is yours and how much of it is your home floor.

What the record does not give us is the entry cost, the round-by-round format, or how qualifying and battles are structured in 2026. None of that is stated in the posts we read, so we are not going to fill it in. Ask at the host circuit, or watch the Round 3 edit on the Furuppi RC channel and see how the layout is being driven before you commit a weekend to it.