A DreamTour 2026 Rd.3 qualifying block from DRIFT BASE, five days after the round

Unpacked, the title gives four facts:

• The series is written as DreamTour2026, and this is Rd.3 in that series' own numbering.
• The venue is given as DRIFT BASE.
• 予選１ marks it as qualifying, part one — the first block of the qualifying footage, not the battles.
• The run date in the title is 2026/09/20, five days before the upload.

The bracketed 【RC DRIFT】 and 【ラジドリ】 at either end are the uploader's index tags; radidori is the everyday Japanese contraction for radio-control drifting. They tell you what search the video is built to be found by, nothing about the session.

The title stops there; the organiser's own posts carry the rest. Drift Track ran the round on a control tyre, the BuzzBreak TOYO R1R in 26 mm or 30 mm, with two rears handed out on the day and fronts chosen from DRIFT BASE's approved list. Entry was capped at 45; 54 had entered by 28 August, and entry closed on the 30th. D-TEN of Team TOPLINE and KOSEI of DRIFT BASE judged. The solo sheet gives each starter three runs, each scored by both judges and averaged, with the best run setting the order: RYOYA topped it on 99.20, MOCCHIY was second on 98.75 and コタロー third on 98.00. The top eight went into the TOP tournament, places nine to 24 into the UNDER tournament and the eight best privateers into PURE, and MOCCHIY beat RYOYA in the TOP final. Neither the posts nor the title describe the surface, so neither does this piece.

Across judged 1/10 RWD drift competition, qualifying is where the solo evidence lives. A driver stands at the edge of the layout with a transmitter in both hands, runs the course alone, and is scored on the things a solo run can show: the line through the layout, the angle held into and through each corner, how cleanly the car hits the clip zones, and style. Tandem proximity — the chase car's job — does not exist yet at this stage of an event. DreamTour's sheet shows the mechanics rather than the criteria — two judges, each run averaged, best of three counts — and the organiser's write-up adds that the judges brought style into their scoring and asked for aggression on a simple layout. It says the drivers who reached the TOP tournament were the ones who attacked all the way without fearing the risk.

That is also why a qualifying block ages well as footage. Battles are thrilling and hard to read; a solo run, filmed from a fixed trackside position, lets you watch one car's initiation, its transitions between the direction changes, and whether it carries the same angle on lap two that it found on lap one. If the Rd.3 upload is cut that way, it is a better setup reference than any highlight edit.

We have not watched and graded the runs in this video, and nothing above should be read as a description of what is in it.

The round's qualifying part one is on YouTube, posted by ふるっぴRCチャンネル (Furuppi RC Channel), the channel the organiser thanked for recording the round.

If you are following the series, the practical move is to open that video, then work through the rest of the channel's Rd.3 set: 予選２, the second qualifying block, and the PURE, UNDER and TOP tournament battles, all posted by 26 September. Those are the files that will still be the record of 2026-09-20 in five years.