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To celebrate Spoon’s 20-year racing history in the U.S., KurumaNFT will be launching an officially-licensed Spoon Collection x KurumaCards. This limited collection of 1950 digital cards contains ALL of Spoon’s past Thunderhill race cars, including the latest FK8 Civic Type R that the team ran in partnership with GoTuning Unlimited. Piloting this machine were automotive celebrities Tarzan Yamada and Dai Yoshihara. This race was also Spoon founder Tatsuru Ichishima’s final race before his retirement from the company.
Spoon Collection 2023 Set For Holiday Release.
Utility:
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Collect all 7 cars and the first 10 people get a digital poster.
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Collect all race cars Dai Yoshihara has raced: ZF1, FD2 and FK9. The first 10 people get a gift from Dai.
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Special Gift at Honda Meet 2023 USA
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Virtual Meet & Greet with Aaron Wang, Spoon Sports USA President, and Dai Yoshihara
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In the early 2000’s while I was still at my previous company, the president of Spoon Japan, Ichishima-san, contacted me about bringing over a JDM Honda Accord EuroR (CL7) race car to the U.S. Our team had helped Spoon with its U.S. marketing in the past, and we accepted the amazing opportunity right away. As content marketers, we knew the kind of attention a Spoon race car could generate.
The EuroR wasn’t exactly a Type R, but it was still an R-badged Honda from its JDM lineup, along with the DC5 Integra and EP3 Civic Type R. At the time, there were no "R" offerings in the U.S.
Once the car arrived in Los Angeles, we displayed it at various events and made it available to major tuner and motorsports magazines. But Ichishima-san’s grand vision was for Spoon to challenge the 25 Hours of Thunderhill in December of 2003. This is how Spoon’s official U.S. racing history kicked off.
Since that day, Spoon has entered the 25 Hours of Thunderhill numerous times with different vehicles that ranged from various Civic Type Rs to even a Honda Fit. The latest was in December 2021 where the team won its class with the FK8 Civic Type R. These projects have always been a collaborative effort between the JDM tuner brand’s U.S. representatives and a group of drivers and mechanics flying out from the homeland. The race cars were always built in Japan and flown to the U.S. Spoon has always believed endurance racing was the best way to conduct R&D, build teamwork and market the brand. It has stuck to this formula from the very beginning.
We are very excited about this collaboration to offer a piece of Spoon's racing heritage. Stay tuned for more information about this epic collection!
Best regards,
Taro Koki
Co-founder, President & CEO
KurumaNFT
Spoon
CL7 Race Car
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Spoon CL7 Race Car
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While most people in the U.S. wouldn’t consider a popular midsize sedan an ideal candidate for a race car, Spoon transformed this European spec model, which was noticeably sportier than our version, into a menacing track monster. This machine won its class at the 2004 25 Hours of Thunderhill.
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FD2 Race Car
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Spoon FD2 Race Car
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The Spoon FD2 race car was entered in the 2009 25 Hours of Thunderhill with Tatsuru Ichishima, Kazunori Yamauchi of Sony Gran Turismo fame, pro-driver Naoki Hattori and KurumaNFT’s own Sam Mitani taking turns behind the steering wheel. While being denied the finish line two years before, this car breezed to the end, finishing 7th in a competitive class that included entrants with much higher horsepower levels.
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FK8 Race Car
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Spoon FK8 Race Car
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The Spoon FK8 race car took home the class title at the 2021 25 Hours of Thunderhill with an all-star lineup of Japanese drivers, including Formula Drift champ Dai Yoshihara and Japanese racer/personality Tarzan Yamada. This race was the final race in which Spoon founder Tatsuru Ichishima competed before retiring the following year.
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FL5 CTR
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Spoon FL5 CTR
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What makes the Spoon FL5 CTR special is that it’s the only road car in the collection. Serving as the foundation for this machine is the all-new 2023 model, so a race version is definitely in the works. In fact, Spoon has revealed that this car is currently being used for research and development for a future product.
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GD1 Race Car
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Spoon GD1 Race Car
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What made Spoon so special in the motorsports world was that it could turn anything into a race car, including this popular compact people-hauler. The Spoon GD1 race car entered the 25 Thunderhill twice, finishing on the podium on both occasions. In 2003, it placed 2nd in class, while in 2005 it took the class win.
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KB1 Race Car
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Spoon KB1 Race Car
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Based on the legendary 2005 KB1, this Spoon race car took part in a couple of 25 Hours of Thunderhill races. The first time, in 2005, the car experienced some mechanical issues and was forced to retire; however, it was back in 2006 and finished the race, placing 6th in class. This result set up the successes of future 25-hour entries from Spoon.
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ZF1 Race Car
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Spoon ZF1 Race Car
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Perhaps the most race-car-looking candidate among Spoon’s 25-hour machines is the ZF1. The sleek 2-door hot hatch was the first Spoon model to race at Thunderhill with a hybrid system. It placed 3rd in class at the 2013 25 Hours of Thunderhill with drivers Tatsuru Ichishima, drifter Dai Yoshihara, pro-driver Naoki Hattori, Hidetoshi Mitsusada.
