2023 D1 Grand Prix series explained

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.^[1]

Masashi Yokoi is the series reigning champion.

Hideyuki Fujino win both Overall and Tanso series championship for the second time.

Schedule

Calendar released by D1GP

!Round!Venue!Date

Kick Off Drift	Makuhari Messe, Chiba Prefecture	January 14 & 15
0 (Exhibition)	Fuji Speedway, Shizuoka Prefecture	April 23
1	Okuibuki Motorpark, Shiga Prefecture	May 13
2		May 14
3	Tsukuba Circuit, Ibaraki Prefecture	June 24
4		June 25
5	Ebisu Circuit, Fukushima Prefecture	August 26
6		August 27
7	Autopolis, Oita Prefecture	October 28
8		October 29
9	Odaiba, Tokyo Bay	November 11
10		November 12

Changes

• 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]
• After 1 year absent D1GP planned to return to Tsukuba Circuit.
• Okuibuki and Ebisu round will held alongside D1 Lights.

Drivers and Teams

!Team!No!Driver!Machine!Tires!Rounds

D-MAX RACING TEAM	70	Masashi Yokoi	Nissan Silvia (S15)	Goodride	All
	46	Masao Suenaga	Nissan Silvia (S15)		All
TEAM TOYO TIRES DRIFT	88	Masato Kawabata	Toyota GR86 (ZN8)	Toyo Tires	All
	66	Hideyuki Fujino	Toyota GR86 (ZN8)		All
VALINO x N-STYLE	99	Naoki Nakamura	Toyota GR86 (ZN8)	Valino	All
TEAM MORI	52	Yusuke Kitaoka	Toyota Mark II (JZX100)	Shibatire	All
SHIBATA RACING TEAM	31	Koudai Sobagiri	Infiniti Q60	Shibatire	All
	18	Tetsuya Hibino	Toyota GR86 (ZN8)		All
SHIBATA RACING SEIMI STYLE DRIFT	2	Seimi Tanaka	Nissan Silvia (S15)		All
+Leno Racing watanabe	77	Hokuto Matsuyama	Toyota GR Supra (J29/DB)	Toyo Tires	All
TMS RACING G-MEISTER	16	Koji Yamaguchi	BMW 3-Series (E92)	Valino	All
	79	Kojiro Mekuwa	BMW 3-Series (E92)		All
FAT FIVE RACING	87	Daigo Saito	Toyota GR Supra (J29/DB)	Goodride	1-2
				Shibatire	3-10
DRIFT STAR RACING X RACING GEAR	98	Hiroki Vito	Nissan Silvia (S13)	Valino/ Drift Star	All
VALINO VAZESTRA	15	Katsuhiro Ueo	Nissan Silvia (S15)	Valino	1-8
Z CHALLENGER x BOOSTAR	69	Ryusei Akiba	Nissan Silvia (S15)	Valino	All
	75	Yumeto Hatanaka	Toyota Chaser (JZX100)		5-10
TEAM RE雨宮 ﾏﾂﾓﾄｷﾖｼ APA	7	Yukio Matsui	Mazda RX-7 (FD3S)	Toyo Tires	All
RS WATANABE SPEEDMASTER	43	Yoshifumi Tadokoro	Toyota AE86	Habilead	All
	51	Teruyoshi Iwai	Mazda RX-7 (FC3S)	Federal	All
Mercury 車楽人 VALINO	38	Sayaka Shimoda	Nissan Silvia (S15)	Valino	All
GP SPORTS	56	Takahiro Mori	Nissan 180SX (RPS13)	Valino	All
WEINS Toyota Kanagawa x OREDA RACING	90	Genki Mogami	Toyota GR Supra (J29/DB)	Yokohama	All
Team VERTEX x NEXZTER x D2D	78	Takahiro Ueno	Lexus RC	Goodride	1-2
				Shibatire	3-10
	95	Daychapon Toyingcharoen	Toyota Soarer (Z30)	Toyo Tires	1-4
			Nissan Silvia (S15)		5-8
Repair Create x 326Power	11	Mitsuru Murakami	Toyota GR86 (ZN8)	Shibatire	All
TEAM TNR	30	Tetsuro Nakata	Toyota Mark II (JZX100)	Zestino	3-4
GUNSAI Racing SHIBATIRE	27	Takeshi Mogi	Nissan Silvia (S15)	Shibatire	All
EWALU RACING SHIBATIRE	84	Masakazu Hashi	Nissan Skyline (R34)	Shibatire	1-2,9-10
HIRANO TIRE ★ VALINO RACING	8	Tetsuya Kume	Nissan Silvia (S15)	Valino	All
	93	Hiroki Kano	Nissan Silvia (S15)		All
FORGEDcrew x SATO RANCH	9	Wataru Yamamoto	Nissan Silvia (S15)	Shibatire	3-10
DSL.com	86	Shigehisa Sasayama	Toyota GR86 (ZN8)	Valino	3-6,9-10
			Toyota Chaser (JZX100)		7-8
Team miyaseimitsu	38	Hisashi Saito	Nissan Silvia (S15)	Valino	5-6
浅井工業 SP security レーシングチーム	6	Akinori Utsumi	Nissan Silvia (S15)	TBA	3-4,8-10
MUSEE PLATINUM DxD	12	Sumika Kubokawa	Nissan 180SX (RPS13)	Shibatire	All
HIROSHIMA TOYOTA Team DRoo-P	55	Kazuya Matsukawa	Toyota Sprinter (AE85)	Dunlop	All
	33	Junya Ishikawa	Toyota GR86 (ZN8)		All
TBA	29	Yuji Saito	Nissan Silvia (S15)	TBA	1-2,9-10
GOODRIDE x NEXZTER	45	Chanatpon Kerdpiam	Nissan Silvia (S15)	Goodride	1-6,9-10
Hot Wheels x Rocket Bunny Racing	39	Toshiki Nagai	Nissan Silvia (S13)	Toyo Tires	3-10
NEXZTER DRIVE TO DRIFT	63	Konpichit Toyingcharoen	Nissan 180SX (RPS13)		5-10
	89	Lattapon Keawchin	Toyota Supra (J29/DB)		5-8
			Toyota GR86 (ZN8)		9-10

Changes

• D-MAX changes their tire supplier to Goodride, ending 7 year partnership with Nankang.^[3]
• Naoki Nakamura return as Valino's works driver alongside Katsuhiro Ueo and will debut a newly build 2JZ powered GR86.
• On Toyo Tires talkshow at 2023 Tokyo Auto Salon, Daigo Saito announce that he will be using Toyo Tires for this season replacing Yokohama. but on first round he's using Goodride instead of Toyo. He will also compete under Fat Five Racing team after TMAR fell through in 2021. For round 3 onwards Daigo use Shibatire and would be supported by them.^[4]
• After 2 years out of D1GP, Tetsuya Hibino return as Shibatire Racing Team second driver and will be driving a Toyota GR86 previously driven by Koudai Sobagiri in Formula Drift Japan^[5] he replace Masakazu Hashi who will compete as privateer and still using Shibatire. On later date Seimi Tanaka is announced to be joining the team and Shibatire will support Yusuke Kitaoka, Masakazu Hashi, Takeshi Mogi, Wataru Yamamoto and Sumika Kubokawa as tire supplier.^[6]
• Both Team G-Meister driver Koji Yamaguchi and Kojiro Mekuwa will participate in E92 BMW 3 Series with support from TMS Racing and entered as "TMS RACING G-MESITER", Kazumi Takahashi planned to pariticipate as spot driver but never participate throughout the season.^[7]
• Hiroki Vito will compete under Team Drift Star x RG.^[8]
• RE Amemiya reform partnership with their old JGTC sponsor Matsumoto Kiyoshi as their main sponsor.
• Takahiro Mori switch tires from Vitour to Valino.
• Mitsuru Murakami replace his car to Toyota GR86
• Genki Mogami graduate from D1 Lights and elected to be the driver for WEINS Toyota Kanagawa x OREDA! Racing after an audition held by Oreda Racing.
• Takahiro Ueno planned to debut his second Lexus RC with aim of it being lighter than his previous car. He will be joined by returning Daychapon Toyingcharoen who will borrowing Toyota Soarer from Ueno but later fielding his own S15 Silvia.
• Hirano Tire ★ Valino entered Tetsuya Kume and Hiroki Kano with both driver using a Nissan Silvia S15.^[9]
• Wataru Yamamoto will compete in a S15 Silvia replacing A90 Supra he use in 2022.
• Shigehisa Sasayama will use Toyota GR86 previously driven by Hokuto Matsuyama in Formula Drift Japan.
• Former D1 Ladies League champions, Sumika Kubokawa will make her debut in D1GP, Kubokawa had previously competed in D1 Street Legal and D1 Lights.^[10]
• Team Droo-P returned to D1GP after last competing in 2018 with Kazuya Matsukawa and Junya Ishikawa as driver both returning to D1GP along with Dunlop.^[11]
• Yumeto Hatanaka graduate from D1 Lights to join Ryusei Akiba in Z CHALLENGER x BOOSTAR Team.
• Chanatpon Kerdiam make his returm to D1GP.
• Toshiki Nagai makes his debut with Hot Wheels x Rocket Bunny Racing driving an S13 Silvia starting from round 3.
• NEXZTER DRIVE TO DRIFT enter 2 Thai driver Konpichit Toyingcharoen and Lattapon Keawchin, debuting from round 5.

Results and Point Standing

Results

Round! rowspan="2"

Event	Winner		Report
Solo Run	Battle
Kick Off Drift	Kick Off Drift	Exhibition only
0 (Exhibition)	D1GP Round Zero	Hideyuki Fujino	Hideyuki Fujino	^[12]
1	Okuibuki Drift	Seimi Tanaka	Masashi Yokoi	^[13]
2†		Masashi Yokoi	Masashi Yokoi	^[14]
3	Tsukuba Drift	Koudai Sobagiri	Katsuhiro Ueo	^[15]
4		Koudai Sobagiri	Koudai Sobagiri	^[16]
5	Ebisu Drift	Hideyuki Fujino	Masato Kawabata	^[17]
6		Hokuto Matsuyana	Hideyuki Fujino	^[18]
7	Autopolis Drift	Naoki Nakamura	Masao Suenaga	^[19]
8		Naoki Nakamura	Naoki Nakamura	^[20]
9	Tokyo Drift	Junya Ishikawa	Hideyuki Fujino	^[21]
10		Hideyuki Fujino	Hokuto Matsuyama	^[22]

Overall Drivers' Ranking

Rank.	Driver	Okuibuki		Tsukuba		Ebisu		Autopolis		Odaiba		Total
		RD.1	RD.2†	RD.3	RD.4	RD.5	RD.6	RD.7	RD.8	RD.9	RD.10
1	Hideyuki Fujino	12	3	13	11	17	28	10	-	27	25	146
2	Hokuto Matsuyama	18	6	21	1	12	25	13	-	13	25	134
3	Naoki Nakamura	11	-	DSQ	7	16	18	22	29	21	-	124
4	Seimi Tanaka	17	4	12	12	18	12	22		11	9	117
5	Koudai Sobagiri	-	10	12	29	-	10	19	20	9	-	109
6	Masao Suenaga	21	9	9	4	-	-	27	-	7	10	87
7	Tetsuya Hibino	-	12	2	24	10	16	1	11	1	-	77
8	Masashi Yokoi	28	15	DSQ	DSQ	3	14	-	11	-	3	74
9	Masato Kawabata	-	3	-	13	26	-	5	12	-	13	72
10	Hiroki Vito	16	7	11	8	-	4	6	13	-	-	65
11	Katsuhiro Ueo	-	5	25	17	-	-	12	5	-	-	64
12	Mitsuru Murakami	6	4	-	-	24	6	4	-	6	11	61
13	Ryusei Akiba	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	21	10	16	58
14	Yusuke Kitaoka	8	-	-	6	1	10	-	-	19	12	56
15	Kojiro Mekuwa	1	-	17	-	7	3	7	-	12	-	47
16	Junya Ishikawa	-	-	-	-	4	11	-	1	22	7	45
17	Teruyoshi Iwai	10	1	4	-	11	1	-	6	3	-	36
18	Chanatpon Kerdpiam (S)	5	2	6	10	10	-	-	-	-	-	33
19	Daigo Saito	3	2	-	-	6	2	-	17	-	2	32
20	Yukio Matsui	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	5	18	26
21	Yuji Saito	10	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	20
22	Tetsuya Kume	-	-	10	5	-	5	-	-	-	-	20
23	Takahiro Mori	-	-	-	-	5	7	-	7	-	-	19
24	Sayaka Shimoda	4	-	-	-	2	-	-	10	-	-	16
25	Daychapon Toyingcharoen (Pond)	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	13
26	Kazuya Matsukawa	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	5	9
27	Sumika Kubokawa	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	-	-	8
28	Genki Mogami	-	-	-	3	-	-	3	-	-	-	6
29	Lattapon Keawchin (Pop)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	4
30	Hirotaka Kanou	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	4
31	Yumeto Hatanaka	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	-	-	4
32	Koji Yamaguchi	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	3
33	Akinori Utsumi	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
34	Takeshi Mogi	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1

Tanso Drivers' Ranking

Rank.	Driver	Okuibuki		Tsukuba		Ebisu		Autopolis		Odaiba		Total
		RD.1	RD.2	RD.3	RD.4	RD.5	RD.6	RD.7	RD.8	RD.9	RD.10
1	Hideyuki Fujino	12	5	13	6	20	16	6	-	15	20	113
2	Koudai Sobagiri	-	15	20	20	-	8	16	15	14	-	108
3	Seimi Tanaka	20	7	8	8	12	12	14	-	11	15	107
4	Hokuto Matsuyama	8	11	12	1	13	20	13	-	13	12	103
5	Naoki Nakamura	7	-	0	12	10	13	20	20	4	-	86
6	Masao Suenaga	13	14	15	4	-	-	15	-	10	2	73
7	Mitsuru Murakami	11	8	-	-	16	7	4	-	7	16	69
8	Masashi Yokoi	16	20	0	0	4	14	-	5	-	6	65
9	Hiroki Vito	3	13	7	13		5	8	13	-	-	62
10	Yusuke Kitaoka	14	-	-	10	1	15	-	0	16	4	60
11	Tetsuya Hibino	-	16	4	16	3	3	1	16	1	-	60
12	Masato Kawabata	-	6	-	11	14	-	5	10	-	8	54
13	Kojiro Mekuwa	1	-	14	-	11	4	11	-	12	-	53
14	Junya Ishikawa	-	-	-	-	5	11	-	-	20	14	50
15	Chanatpon Kerdpiam (S)	10	3	11	5	15	-	-	-	-	-	44
16	Katsuhiro Ueo	-	10	1	14	-	-	10	7	-	-	42
17	Daigo Saito	5	4	-	-	8	2	-	14	-	5	38
18	Teruyoshi Iwai	4	1	6	-	7	1	-	11	3	-	33
19	Yuji Saito	15	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	32
20	Ryusei Akiba	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	6	8	7	28
21	Takahiro Mori	-	-	-	-	6	10	-	12	-	-	28
22	Yukio Matsui	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	6	13	24
23	Tetsuya Kume	-	-	3	7	-	6	-	-	-	-	16
24	Kazuya Matsukawa	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	11	15
25	Sumika Kubokawa	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	-	12
26	Lattapon Keawchin (Pop)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	10
27	Sayaka Shimoda	6	-	-	-	2	-	-	1	-	-	9
28	Daychapon Toyingcharoen (pon)	-	2	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	7
29	Genki Mogami	-	-	-	3	-	-	3	-	-	-	6
30	Hirotaka Kano	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	4
31	Yuto Hatanaka	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	-	-	4
32	Koji Yamaguchi	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	3
33	Akinori Utsumi	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
34	Takeshi Mogi	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1

Teams' Ranking

Rank.	Team	Okuibuki		Tsukuba		Ebisu		Autopolis		Odaiba		Total
		RD.1	RD.2	RD.3	RD.4	RD.5	RD.6	RD.7	RD.8	RD.9	RD.10
1	TEAM TOYO TIRES DRIFT	6	2	6	6	26	26	6	6	26	20	130
2	+LenoRacing watanabe	15	3	20	3	6	20	6	-	6	26	105
3	D-MAX RACING TEAM	26	13	3	3	3	6	26	6	3	6	95
4	TEAM VALINO × N-style	6	-	0	3	10	15	15	26	20	-	95
5	SHIBATIRE RACING	-	10	3	26	6	10	10	15	3	-	83
6	SHIBATIRE RACING SEIMI STYLE D	6	2	6	6	15	6	20	-	6	3	70
7	VALINO VAZESTRA	-	3	26	10	-	-	6	3	-	-	48
8	Z CHALLENGER × BOOSTAR	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	20	6	10	42
9	Repair Create × 326power	3	2	-	-	20	3	3	-	3	3	37
10	DRIFT STAR Racing × RACING GEAR	10	3	6	3	-	3	3	6	-	-	34
11	TMS Racing Team G-meister	3	-	10	-	3	3	3	3	6	-	31
12	広島トヨタ team DROO-P	-	-	-	-	3	6	-	3	15	3	30
13	TEAM MORI	3	-	-	3	3	3	-	-	10	6	28
14	RS Watanabe SPEED MASTER	6	2	3	-	6	3	-	3	3	-	26
15	FAT FIVE RACING	3	2	-	-	3	3	-	10	-	3	24
16	TEAM RE雨宮 マツモトキヨシ APA	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	3	15	21
17	HIRANO TIRE ★ VALINO RACING	3	-	6	3	-	3	-	-	3	-	18
18	GOODRIDE × NEXZTER	3	2	3	6	3	-	-	-	-	-	17
19	Mercury 車楽人 VALINO	3	-	-	-	3	-	-	6	-	-	12
20	TEAM VERTEX × NEXZTER × D2D	-	2	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	11
21	CAR SHOP GLITTER × Carlife ORANGE × Next Dream	3	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	9
22	GP SPORTS	-	-	-	-	3	3	-	3	-	-	9
23	ウエインズトヨタ神奈川 俺だっ！レーシング	-	-	-	3	-	-	3	-	-	-	6
24	NEXZTER DRIVE TO DRIFT	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	3
25	GUNSAI Racing SHIBATIRE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	3	3
26	MUSEE PLATINUM DxD	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	3
27	浅井工業 SP security レーシングチーム	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	3

Notes :

• † - Round 2 is cancelled after the Solo Run due to weather condition, the results was taken from Solo Run results and only half points were awarded.

Notes and References

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2. Web site: 2023-08-24 . 今年のお台場大会はJAFカップとして認定‼ . 2023-09-07 . ja.
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5. Web site: 『【コラム】日比野選手紹介！』 . 2023-01-25 . ⚡シバタイヤ⚡社長のブログ . ja.
6. Web site: 『【速報】シバタ⚡チーム体制の発表！』 . 2023-03-30 . ⚡シバタイヤ⚡ . ja.
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8. Web site: #DRIFTSTAR #秋葉瑠世 #ヴィトー博貴 #粟野如月 #RollingDancer. 2023-01-25 . Twitter . en.
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10. Web site: Sumika Kubokawa on Instagram . 2023-03-12 . Instagram . en.
11. Web site: Ayumu Matuoka . 2023-04-03 . www.facebook.com . en.
12. Web site: D1GP RD.0 富士 詳細レポート . 2023-04-30 . ja.
13. Web site: 2023-05-13 . D1GP RD.1 奥伊吹 詳細レポート . 2023-05-17 . ja.
14. Web site: 2023-05-14 . D1GP RD.2 奥伊吹 詳細レポート . 2023-05-17 . ja.
15. Web site: 2023-06-24 . D1GP RD.3 筑波 詳細レポート . 2023-07-03 . ja.
16. Web site: 2023-06-25 . D1GP RD.4 筑波 詳細レポート . 2023-07-03 . ja.
17. Web site: 2023-08-26 . D1GP RD.5 エビス 詳細レポート . 2023-09-07 . ja.
18. Web site: 2023-08-27 . D1GP RD.6 エビス 詳細レポート . 2023-09-07 . ja.
19. Web site: 2023-10-28 . D1GP RD.7 AP 詳細レポート . 2023-11-18 . ja.
20. Web site: 2023-10-29 . D1GP RD.8 AP 詳細レポート . 2023-11-18 . ja.
21. Web site: 2023-11-11 . D1GP RD.9 お台場 詳細レポート . 2023-11-18 . ja.
22. Web site: 2023-11-12 . D1GP RD.10 お台場 詳細レポート . 2023-11-18 . ja.