Masao Suenaga

Masao Suenaga
Nationality	Japan
Born	February 13, 1978 (1978-02-13) (age 33) Kagoshima
Related to	Naoto Suenaga
2011 D1 Grand Prix
Debut season	2002
Current team	RE Amemiya with Greddy
Wins	3
Best finish	2 in 2005
Previous series
2006-2007	D1 Street Legal

Masao Suenaga (末永正雄, Suenaga Masao^?, 13 February 1978, Kagoshima) is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for RE Amemiya and Greddy. He is the younger brother of Naoto who both were taught by Nobushige Kumakubo.

He began his motorsport career racing minibikes in the Kyūshū area, later winning a title. Following this, his motorcycle racing career ended at the age of 20 caused by injuries. As Naoto was involved in the Gowasu hashiriya group, he also became involved which he was taught how to drift by Naoto.^[1]

He has been competing in the D1 Grand Prix series since 2002. In 2002 and 2003 he was the youngest driver to compete in the top 16 and he was soon picked up by RE Amemiya a renowned tuner of rotary powered cars. So he switched from his Nissan Silvia to a Mazda RX-7 (FD3S) went from strength to strength. The Silvia would be driven by Naoto until he became one of the Kumakubo led Team Orange drivers. Masao took his first win in 2005 and went on to place second overall. He had a slight lull in his performance in 2006, but was back on form in 2007 winning twice and finishing the season in third.

He is one of the few D1GP drivers to compete the spinoff D1 Street Legal series in his own FD RX-7 winning the first two rounds of the inaugural season.

Complete Drifting Results

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D1 Grand Prix

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Position	Points
2002		Toyota Corolla Levin AE86	BHH TAN	EBS DNQ	SGO 6	TKB 16	EBS DNQ	SEK TAN	NIK 4		12	24
2003		Nissan Silvia PS13	TKB 16	BHH 10	SGO 5	FUJ 16	EBS TAN	SEK 16	TKB 8		13	20
2004	RE Amemiya	Nissan Silvia S13	IRW 16								16	14
		Mazda RX-7 FD3S		SGO 8	EBS 16	APS TAN	ODB DNQ	EBS TAN	TKB 7
2005	RE Amemiya	Mazda RX-7 FD3S	IRW 6	ODB 5	SGO 6	APS 3	EBS 4	FUJ 1	TKB 4		2	96
2006	RE Amemiya	Mazda RX-7 FD3S	IRW TAN	SGO 3	FUJ TAN	APS 6	EBS 6	SUZ 10	FUJ 16	IRW 6	8	51
2007	RE Amemiya	Mazda RX-7 FD3S	EBS 3	FUJ 2	SUZ 1	SGO 4	EBS 11	APS 13	FUJ 1		3	92
2008	RE Amemiya	Mazda RX-7 FD3S	EBS 4	FUJ 4	SUZ 13	OKY 5	APS 6	EBS NS	FUJ 1		3	89

D1 Street Legal

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Position	Points
2006		Mazda RX-7 FD3S	SEK 1	EBS 1	SGO	FUJ	APS	EBS	SEK
2007		Mazda RX-7 FD3S	SEK	SUZ	SGO	EBS	SEK

Source

• D1 Grand Prix

References

1. ^ [1]

External links

• (Japanese)Gowasu?のホームページ - Official page
• (Japanese)D1 Supporter profile
• (Japanese)D1 Supporter profile (D1SL)

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Name	Suenaga, Masao
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Date of birth	13 February 1978
Place of birth	Kagoshima
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