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The franchise currently has three games, with two of them being released in North America under the Tokyo Xtreme Racer banner by Crave Entertainment. The series, like the main Shutokou Battle games, includes licensed cars and authentic Japanese mountain roads as courses. In Conquest Mode, the player competes during the day in drift contests ...
The D1 Grand Prix (D1グランプリ, D1 guranpuri), abbreviated as D1GP and subtitled Professional Drift, is a production car drifting series from Japan. After several years of hosting amateur drifting contests, Daijiro Inada, founder of Option magazine and Tokyo Auto Salon, and drifting legend, Keiichi Tsuchiya hosted a professional level drifting contest in 1999 and 2000 to feed on the ever ...
The series is run by Sunpros under Japanese Automobile Federation (JAF) official semi-national competition format. The competition was held as JAF Japan Drift Championship as drifting category is added to Japan Championship by JAF. [1] Hideyuki Fujino entered the season as defending champion in both Overall and Single run championship. [2]
The game includes Japanese and imported foreign cars. The foreign cars included are Alfa Romeo, Mini, Lotus, DeTomaso, and Volkswagen, depending on the version. Honda was licensed in this game (with some cars localized as Acura models in the US version) but was not available in Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 due to licensing issues.
The game features a selection of 218 licensed Japanese and European cars. [2] There are also several parodies of cars from anime and manga titles like Initial D, Wangan Midnight and Over Rev!. [3] Unlike past games in the franchise, American manufacturers have been completely omitted.
Yoshinori Koguchi (古口 美範, Koguchi Yoshinori, 2 February 1969 in Tochigi) is a Japanese professional drifting driver, who competes in the D1 Grand Prix series for Dunlop Tyres and Koguchi Power. Like many of the other D1 drivers, he owns his own tuning garage called Koguchi Power. Yoshinori does all of the work on his car himself.
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Keiichi Tsuchiya (土屋圭市, Tsuchiya Keiichi, born January 30, 1956) is a Japanese professional race car driver. He is known as the Drift King (ドリキン, Dorikin) for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport.