SHIBATA says HAYATO took a second straight SDC World Championship

GRK is the drift RC chassis brand of Shibata Jidosha Co., Ltd. of Sakahogi, Gifu. The company set itself up in 2010 and built a fine-asphalt RC drift circuit beside its car business; the first GRK chassis followed in May 2012, according to the brand's own history page. The range today runs from the AWD GRK GLOBAL and GLOBAL STANDARD kits through the switchable GLOBAL2 and GS2, to RWD cars including the GRK4, GRK5, GRK5-R, GS2 EVO and GS2 Modified, plus the short-wheelbase GRK-M.

That matters for reading a result like this one: a win by a driver on a team carrying the maker's name is also a shop window for the maker's chassis. The post, though, does not say which car either driver ran, so this piece does not either. Note too that the team writes as SHIBATA and GRK RACING TEAM in the same post — the brand's site styles itself DR GRK, while its manuals read SHIBATA GRK.

SDC is the Super Drift Competition, the competition series run by Super-G R/C Drift Arena in Baldwin Park, California, judged with a replay system. Super-G announced its SDC Worlds 2025 for 3–5 October 2025. The SHIBATA post does not name the venue or give dates for the edition HAYATO has just won, and YAW has not seen an event page for it, so treat the location and schedule as unconfirmed here rather than carried over from last year's announcement.

The same caution applies to format. Judged RC drift competition is usually solo qualifying followed by tandem battles, where each driver leads one run and chases one and the chase car is scored on matching the lead's line with angle and proximity. Whether SDC's 2026 edition ran that way, and how many rounds it took, is for the organizer's own rulebook and results to say.

The back-to-back claim is the team's. It is a clear statement in the post, but YAW has not independently matched it against a published 2025 result sheet.

The closing line of the post is the one with the longest reach: GRK RACING TEAM says it wants to keep entering big overseas events, and asks readers to support that. No specific event, series or date is named.

For a Japanese chassis brand, sending two drivers to a US competition is a visible commitment — travel, spares and a layout nobody has practiced on. TAKU's inclusion reads, from the post's own wording, as development rather than a result chase. What that means for the team's 2027 calendar is not in the material.