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Ryuji Miki
Nationality	Japan
Born	(1975-06-14)14 June 1975 (age 49) Tottori Prefecture
Formula D career
Debut season	2007
Current team	A'PEXi
Former teams	Top Secret
Best finish	14 in2005
Previous series
2001-2005	D1 Grand Prix
Championship titles
2004	1

Ryuji Miki (三木竜二,Miki Ryuji, 14 June 1975) is a racing and drifting driver fromTottori Prefecture,Japan. Miki was the2004D1 Grand Prix champion driving theTop SecretSilvia S15. Miki also competed in theNet'z Cup, aone make series for theToyota Altezza between 2005 and its final season in 2006^{[1][2][failed verification]} and is nicknamed Doki-Doki kun due to his drifting style.

Ryuji Miki started in the series in his own S14 Silvia, before switching to theTop Secret modified S15 for the2002 season. During the2004 season, partway through the season whenNobuteru Taniguchi switched to theToyota Altezza, leading to a sudden change of fortune, as many felt that Miki was fortunate as he also managed to get score his sole win atOdaiba, allowing Miki to finish the season with the title that year, beating Taniguchi by 28pts, currently the widest margin of the series.

For the2005 season, following the openingIrwindale round, Miki switched to aTop Secret modifiedFairlady Z Z33 powered by aRB26. He was unable to follow on his successes of the previous season as he only managed to scrape 16 pts. Much of it was, at the time, the Z33 was still in development to be fully competitive in drifting, due to its weight, one of its reason why it befell many of its drivers.

His last win was at theSilverstone exhibition event in his old S15, that year was to be his last season in the series. For the2006 season, rivalYouichi Imamura's team and title sponsor,A'PEXi withdrew from the series due to a redirection in the company's business strategies, leading him to take over Miki's Z33. As of 2007, incidentally, Miki would compete inFormula D driving with Imamura's previous D1 sponsor, APEX'i (partnering withBergenholtz Racing) and driving a white FD3S.

Throughout the 2007 season, in light of issues he faced with adapting to driving a left hand drive car for the first time, not to mention within a full season of racing, Ryuji managed to finish the Formula D season impressively. Reaching the rank of top 16 within 4 events, Ryuji finally adapted to the car within the 6th and 7th rounds finishing 14th overall for the season. Continuing on in 2008 with major backing by Bergenholtz Racing, Nitto Tires, and MAZDA, Ryuji Miki will continue to pilot the APEX RX-7 with plans to potentially unveil a new car for 2009. According to Keith Covey and Chuck Griffice of APEX Integration's R&D department, the new setup on the 2008 car has been completely redone and Ryuji will be adapting to what essentially amounts to a new car.

• When driver's position are highlighted inblue, this indicates either the driver earned 100pt or 100pt tansou (solo run) bonus has been awarded, with the latter being in use for Pre-2005.

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