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Drift Masters (also known as DM) is a European drifting series founded in 2014. [1] The championship was originally called Drift Masters Grand Prix until aligning with Zigen Promotions (parent company of the Irish Drift Championship and British Drift Championship) to create an official partnership and rebranding to Drift Masters European Championship. [2]
The 2024 Drift Masters season is the tenth full season of the Drift Masters series. The season began on May 11 at Circuit Ricardo Tormo and concluded on September 14 at PGE Narodowy custom built track after six events. Lauri Heinonen, driving his Nissan 180SX, won his first-ever Championship.
This sense of drift is not to be confused with the four wheel drift, a classic cornering technique established in Grand Prix and sports car racing. [citation needed] As a motoring discipline, drifting competitions were first popularized in Japan in the 1970s and further popularized by the 1995 manga series Initial D. Drifting competitions are ...
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.
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 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 ...
Deane began his career in competition drifting in 2006, driving a Ford Sierra in the Prodrift Junior Championship, finishing third in the series. In 2007, Deane won his first ever professional event in the main Prodrift series at Rosegreen at the age of fifteen, which is believed to have made him the youngest professional drift event winner in the world at the time.
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.