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Hideyuki Fujino entered the season as defending champion in both Overall and Single run championship. [2] Naoki Nakamura won his second Overall and Solo Run championship at the final round of the season from Daigo Saito and Tetsuya Hibino. [3] Shibata Racing Team wins the team championship for the first time.
Fuji Speedway will only held an exhibition event rather than championship round as previous season. Odaiba returned to host D1GP round for the first time since 2018 season, 2019 was the last time D1GP ever held any event at Odaiba as the venue was in use for 2020 Summer Olympics. The round will be certified as JAF CUP. [2]
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 ...
Fuji Speedway return to the calendar after last held D1GP event in 2016.The competition will be held alongside Motor Fan Festa with the Qualifying and Top 16 held on Saturday and Top 8 onwards held the following day. The Ebisu event will now be held on the West Course, which previously used in 2020. The former South Course has been converted to ...
Hideyuki Fujino (藤野 秀之, Fujino Hideyuki, born 26 June 1974, Saitama Prefecture) is a Japanese professional drifting driver. He currently competes in the D1 Grand Prix series for Team Toyo Tires Drift, and is the 2017 and 2023 series champion.
Kawabata compete in the inaugural FIA Intercontinental Drift Cup at Odaiba which is the first drifting competition held under FIA driving the same Nissan GT-R he use in D1GP where he become the inaugural champion after winning the first leg and runner-up in second leg. He continued to compete in the next two edition of the competition but ...
Daigo Saito (斎藤 太吾, Saitō Daigo, 7 March 1980, Saitama) is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series and Formula Drift Japan. He formerly competed in Formula DRIFT USA and World Championship series for Achilles Radial. He was the first driver to win the two drifting majors, D1GP in 2008 ...
In the final round he grabbed his first D1GP [4] and ended the season 6th in the standings. In 2020 he grabbed another win in round 7 of the season and finished 5th in the standings. The 2021 season was his best year as he grabbed 4 overall and solo run wins and sealed the championship in the penultimate round. He scored 204 points, the first ...