FDJ Suzuka Round 2: TTSPORT DR6/DR4+2 Drift Calipers Sweep the Podium
At Round 2 of the 2026 Formula Drift Japan (FDJ) championship, held May 23-24 at Suzuka Twin Circuit, TTSPORT-equipped drivers swept the podium. Zhu Yuanlu topped qualifying with a 91-point run, Xia Changhao won the Tsuiso chase final, and Kobashi Masanori took third in Tsuiso. All three cars ran TTSPORT's dedicated drift setup: a DR6 six-piston caliper up front and a dual-circuit DR4+2 six-piston caliper out back.
A Clean Sweep at Suzuka Twin
FDJ is Asia's top drift stage, and Suzuka Twin doesn't make it easy — fast, connected corners, long slides, and wall-scraping chase runs against Japan's best. Chinese driver Zhu Yuanlu set the tone in qualifying, posting a 91-point run that put him ahead of a field stacked with local talent.
In the Tsuiso chase battles, fellow Chinese driver Xia Changhao worked through the bracket and took the win, while Japanese driver Kobashi Masanori ran a steady weekend to grab third. Three drivers, three different backgrounds, one shared piece of hardware on all their cars.
Suzuka Twin: A Braking Crucible
Drift racing puts a caliper through a different kind of abuse than road racing. Drivers left-foot brake through the whole run — trail-braking into the corner, feathering mid-slide, then snapping the handbrake to break rear traction. Each of those inputs dumps heat into the rotor and pads fast, and the driver needs the pedal to feel exactly the same on lap twenty as it did on lap one.
If a caliper flexes under load or the fluid overheats, pedal feel goes soft and the driver loses the fine control that separates a clean angle from a spin. That's the environment Suzuka Twin creates, and it's why every TTSPORT car on track ran the same front-and-rear setup: DR6 six-piston calipers up front, DR4+2 dual-circuit six-piston calipers at the rear.
TTSPORT DR6 + DR4+2: Built for the Slide
The front DR6 is a six-piston forged-aluminum caliper with a large pad contact area, giving strong, linear stopping power and a firm, predictable pedal on hard entry braking. The forged body resists flex under repeated heavy stops, and the venting is tuned to shed heat quickly so the pedal doesn't get long or spongy after back-to-back chase runs.
A Dual-Circuit Rear Caliper Built Just for Drift
The rear DR4+2 is where TTSPORT solved a problem specific to drift: keeping the hydraulic handbrake and the foot brake from interfering with each other. It runs two fully independent hydraulic circuits in one six-piston caliper — circuit A is dedicated to the hydraulic handbrake, locking the rear wheels instantly to break traction, and circuit B is dedicated to the foot brake, giving the driver fine control over drift angle without the handbrake input bleeding into it. No circuit crossover, no unwanted lockup, no fighting the car mid-slide.
Across qualifying and every Tsuiso round, none of the three TTSPORT cars reported a brake failure or noticeable fade — the pedal held its bite from the first hit to the final chase pass.
Podium Results
Zhu Yuanlu, 91 points, China
Xia Changhao, China
Kobashi Masanori, Japan
What's Next
A qualifying win and a Tsuiso title from two Chinese drivers, plus a podium finish from a Japanese driver, all on the same front DR6 / rear DR4+2 setup — that's a solid data point for TTSPORT on one of Asia's toughest drift grids. The team heads into the next FDJ round with the same hardware and the same expectations.
More rounds, more testing, same brakes.
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