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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 ...
2024 Gran Turismo D1 Grand Prix Series was the 24th season of D1 Grand Prix drifting competition. It started in May 10 at Okuibuki Motorpark and ended in November 10 at Odaiba. The series is run by Sunpros under Japanese Automobile Federation (JAF) official semi-national competition format. The competition was held as JAF Japan Drift ...
2023 Gran Turismo D1 Grand Prix series is the 23rd season of D1 Grand Prix. Started in May 13 in Okuibuki Motorpark and finished at Odaiba in November 12. Started in May 13 in Okuibuki Motorpark and finished at Odaiba in November 12.
He practiced alone until he met late D1 driver Atsushi Kuroi who started to teach and advise Kawabata. At age 19, Kawabata entered a drift magazine sponsored contest and took first place. At 21, GP Sports started to sponsor Kawabata with a full line of aero parts and later he work for them moving from his hometown to Niigata where GP Sports based.
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.
Option Video has always covered drifting, even hosting one of the first drift contests in 1989 with Keiichi Tsuchiya called the Ikaten. Option would continue to cover drift events especially their own Ikaten, until in October 2000, they would introduce the D1 Grand Prix which appears exclusively on the videos.
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2022 Gran Turismo D1 Grand Prix series is the 22nd season of D1 Grand Prix started from April 24 on Fuji Speedway and ended on November 6 on Ebisu Circuit. [1] Naoki Nakamura entered the season as the Defending Champion. [2] Masashi Yokoi won his third championship with Masato Kawabata winning the Tanso (Solo Run) championship.