2016 D1 Grand Prix series explained

The 2016 D1 Grand Prix series is the sixteenth season for the D1 Grand Prix series and the eleventh for the D1 Street Legal spinoff series. The season began on March 26 at Odaiba Tokyo Street Course for the D1GP^[1] and ended on October 23 at the same course with Daigo Saito winning his second Championship and began on April 16 for D1SL at Bihoku Highland Circuit.^[2] and ended on November 20 at Nikko Circuit with Katsuhiro Ueo winning his first D1SL Championship by cancellation, due to a fatal incident that happened during morning practice.^[3]

Schedule

Round		Venue	Location	Date	Winner	Car
D1GP	D1SL
1		Odaiba	Tokyo Prefecture	March 26–27	Daigo Saito^[4]	Toyota JZX100
	1	Bihoku Highland Circuit	Hiroshima Prefecture	April 16–17	Katsuhiro Ueo	Nissan Silvia S15
2		Fuji Speedway	Shizuoka Prefecture	April 23–24	Daigo Saito^[5]	Toyota JZX100
	2	Ebisu Circuit	Fukushima Prefecture	May 28–29	Katsuhiro Ueo	Nissan Silvia S15
3		Tsukuba Circuit	Ibaraki Prefecture	June 25	Daigo Saito^[6]	Toyota JZX100
4				June 26	Tomohiro Murayama^[7]	Nissan S14
	3	Meihan Sportsland	Nara Prefecture	July 9–10	Junya Ishikawa	Nissan S14
5		Ebisu Circuit	Fukushima Prefecture	August 6	Daigo Saito^[8]	Toyota JZX100
6				August 7	Tomohiro Murayama^[9]	Nissan S14
	4	Maze Sea Circuit	Niigata Prefecture	August 20–21	Katsuhiro Ueo	Nissan Silvia S15
	5	Seto Inland Sea Circuit	Ehime Prefecture	October 15–16	Takatoshi Imamaeda	Nissan Silvia S14
7		Odaiba	Tokyo Prefecture	October 22–23	Daigo Saito	Toyota JZX100
	6	Nikko Circuit	Tochigi Prefecture	November 19–20	Event Cancelled	Event Cancelled

Drivers' rankings

D1GP

Pos.	Driver	Car	Rd.1	Rd.2	Rd.3	Rd.4	Rd.5	Rd.6	Rd.7	Total
1			30	30	33	22	30		30	172
2			25	25	22	14		22	25	133
3			22	11	12		17	25	20	107
4			7	16	25		22	17	12	99
5			5		10	30	7	30	9	91
6			17		20	11	1	7	14	70
7			1		17	12	11	9	17	67
8			1		9	20	8	1	22	61
9			10	12			15	14	1	52
10			6	17		5	16	6	1	51
11					11	7		15	16	49
			1	20		17	1		10	49
13			1		15	25	1		5	47
				1	16	8	20	1	1	47
15				8			25	12	1	46
16			8	14		1		5	15	43
17			16	7	1	6	6		1	37
18			9	15	1	1		1	6	33
19				5		15		1	11	32
20			11	1	1			8	8	29
			12					16	1	29
22			20	1					7	28
23				10			14		1	25
				22	1		1		1	25
25			1		8			11		20
26			15	1		1				17
27				6		9	1			16
						16	0			16
			14	1	1					16
30					14					14
31				1		1	9	1		12
					7					12
33							10	1		11
				9	1			1		11
35								10		10
36					6					6
37						1	1			2
				1		1				2
			1		1					2
40								1		1
							1			1
						1				1
			1							1

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2016 Schedule . d1gp.co.jp . 2 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160319150519/http://www.d1gp.co.jp/03_sche/gp2016/gp2016_index-e.html . 19 March 2016 . dead .
2. Web site: 2016 Event Schedule . d1sl.jp . 2 April 2016.
3. Web site: Professional Drifting Has Its First Known Fatality . blackflag.jalopnik.com . 5 December 2016 . 12 November 2017.
4. Web site: Round 1 Report . March 27, 2016 . d1gp.co.jp . April 2, 2016.
5. Web site: Round 2 Report . April 24, 2016 . d1gp.co.jp . April 27, 2016.
6. Web site: Round 3 Report . June 25, 2016 . d1gp.co.jp . September 22, 2016.
7. Web site: Round 4 Report . June 26, 2016 . d1gp.co.jp . September 22, 2016.
8. Web site: Round 5 Report . August 6, 2016 . d1gp.co.jp . September 22, 2016.
9. Web site: Round 6 Report . August 7, 2016 . d1gp.co.jp . September 22, 2016.