2017 D1 Grand Prix series

The 2017 D1 Grand Prix series was the seventeenth season for the D1 Grand Prix series. The season began on April 1 at Odaiba Tokyo Street Course[1] and ended on October 8 at the same course, with Hideyuki Fujino winning the D1GP Championship. The D1 Street Legal series did not run this year, and was replaced by the 2018 season with the D1 Lights series.[2]


Teams and drivers

D1GP

Tire Team Car No. Drivers Round(s)
Dunlop Pacific Racing Team Nissan ER34 3 Ken Nomura 1–6
Pacific Racing Team Nissan S14 14 Tomohiro Murayama 1–6
広島トヨタ team DROO-P Toyota ZN6 33 Kazuki Hayashi 1–7
Tanabe Team Toyota JZX100 38 Tadahiro Fukada 1–6
Gator Team-Ryoji Nissan C33 44 Kenji Kiguchi 1–7
OTG Toyota ZN6 60 Youichi Imamura 1–7
広島トヨタ team DROO-P Toyota AE85 99 Kazuya Matsukawa 1–7
Goodride Team TNR PROSHOP Wave Nissan S14 16 Koji Yamaguchi 1–6
BSM Japan Speed Master Nissan S15 49 Hiroyuki Matsuta 1–3
Team-Tetsujin OS Giken Nissan S15 55 Kunihiko Teramachi 1–7
Stealth Team Red Nissan S15 58 Tachiki Sato 1–3
Team Hanpen Wako's Toyota Verossa 72 Kenichi Nakamura 3–6
TOPTUL West Auto Toyota JZX100 73 Ikuo Saito 1–6
Nichiei Racing Nissan S15 86 Zhang Shaohua 1–3
TCP Magic Mazda FD3S 88 Manabu Fujinaka 1–6
Goodyear Team Mori Lexus GRS191 5 Kenji Takayama 1–7
Team St.GARAGE Toyota JZX100 10 Hokuto Matsuyama 1–6
AST Toyota ZN6 28 Masayoshi Tokita 3, 5-6
Heart Up World Lexus GSE20 48 Tomoyuki Kitashiba 1–6
Ito Auto Toyota JZX100 52 Yusuke Kitaoka 1–6
Origin Labo. Nissan RPS13 81 Kazuya Bai 1–6
Team Kunny'z Toyota GRX130 92 Kuniaki Takahashi 1–6
Kenda Team UP GARAGE Nissan S15 18 Kazuya Taguchi 1–7
Team Masaki Nissan S15 37 Masaki Kasahara 1–2, 4
Nankang D-MAX Nissan S15 70 Masashi Yokoi 1–7
D-MAX Nissan S15 75 Akira Hirajima 1–7
Toyo Seimi Style Drift Nissan S15 2 Seimi Tanaka 1–7
Dixcel Nissan S15 6 Akinori Utsumi 1–7
Team RE雨宮 GruppeM Mazda FD3S 7 Yukio Matsui 1–7
Samurai Kanto Mazda FC3S 21 Takahiro Imamura 1–6
C.M. Feeling Nissan S15 23 Mitsuru Murakami 4–6
Do-Luck Nissan Z33 32 Daychapon Toyingcharoen 1–6
Glion Trust Racing Nissan R35 35 Masato Kawabata 1–7
Glion Trust Racing Nissan R35 39 Masao Suenaga 1–7
Used Parts Tadokoro Toyota AE86 43 Yoshifumi Tadokoro 1–6
Wisteria Nissan RPS13 66 Hideyuki Fujino 1–7
Wanli Yuke's Team Orange Nissan S15 9 Naoto Suenaga 1–7
Bee*Racing Toyota ZN6 22 Tsuyoshi Tezuka 1–7
Yuke's Team Orange Nissan S15 27 Masanori Kohashi 1–7
TMS Auto Service Mori Toyota JZX100 36 Kazumi Takahashi 1–7
Fat Five Racing Toyota JZX100 45 Shingo Hatanaka 1–7
Fat Five Racing Chevrolet C6 87 Daigo Saito 1–7
Zestino Gulf Racing Honda AP1 8 Tetsuya Hibino 1–7
Z.S.S. Racing Nissan S15 15 Katsuhiro Ueo 1–4, 7
Team TNR PROSHOP Wave Toyota JZX100 30 Tetsuro Nakada 1–6
MSR T-Select Nissan S15 61 Masaru Fuchigami 3–4
BSM Japan Speed Master Nissan A31 65 Sadaki Okumura 1–2
Exedy R Magic D1 Racing Mazda NA6CE 77 Teruyoshi Iwai 1–7
Vertex Toyota JZZ30 78 Takahiro Ueno 1–6
N/A Origin Labo. Sunoco Nissan S14 12 Yoshikazu Kawakami 4

Schedule

2017 D1 Grand Prix race locations
Round Venue Date Tsuiso
(dual run)
winner
Tanso
(solo run)
winner
Report
1 Odaiba, Tokyo Prefecture April 1 Hideyuki Fujino Hideyuki Fujino Report
2 April 2 Masashi Yokoi Seimi Tanaka Report
3 Tsukuba Circuit, Ibaraki Prefecture June 24–25 Masato Kawabata Tetsuya Hibino Report
4 Maishima Sports Island, Osaka Prefecture July 23–24 Hideyuki Fujino Hideyuki Fujino Report
5 Ebisu Circuit, Fukushima Prefecture August 19 Hideyuki Fujino Hideyuki Fujino Report
6 August 20 Daigo Saito Yukio Matsui Report
7 Odaiba, Tokyo Prefecture October 7–8 Masashi Yokoi Daigo Saito Report

Drivers' rankings

D1GP

Pos. Driver[3] Car Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Rd.4 Rd.5 Rd.6 Rd.7 Total
1 Hideyuki Fujino Nissan RPS13 30 22 6 17 30 10 22 131
2 Masashi Yokoi Nissan S15 22 30 1 14 12 20 30 128
3 Daigo Saito Chevrolet C6 6 25 22 1 30 25 109
4 Akira Hirajima Nissan S15 20 7 14 20 14 25 14 107
5 Masato Kawabata Nissan R35 17 20 30 8 7 15 16 106
6 Naoto Suenaga Nissan S15 14 1 16 20 16 20 87
7 Yukio Matsui Mazda FD3S 1 11 25 10 17 17 81
8 Youichi Imamura Toyota ZN6 12 17 16 1 22 6 1 74
9 Masanori Kohashi Toyota SXE10 25 1 1 9 25 7 6 73
10 Shingo Hatanaka Toyota JZX100 8 9 15 16 8 8 64
11 Masao Suenaga Nissan R35 22 30 1 1 1 55
12 Akinori Utsumi Nissan S15 1 7 11 22 12 53
13 Kazuya Matsukawa Toyota AE85 5 25 1 15 1 5 52
14 Tsuyoshi Tezuka Toyota ZN6 15 16 8 1 1 9 50
15 Seimi Tanaka Nissan S15 9 12 10 1 1 15 48
16 Tetsuya Hibino Honda AP1 10 11 12 1 1 1 11 46
17 Teruyoshi Iwai Mazda NA6CE 1 8 1 6 11 12 7 45
18 Kunihiko Teramachi Nissan S15 9 15 17 1 42
19 Katsuhiro Ueo Nissan S15 7 10 17 1 1 36
20 Kazuya Taguchi Nissan S15 11 1 10 10 32
21 Kenji Kiguchi Nissan C33 16 1 9 1 1 28
22 Kenji Takayama Lexus GRS191 6 1 7 5 1 1 21
Kazuki Hayashi Toyota ZN6 20 1 21
24 Kazumi Takahashi Toyota JZX100 1 5 12 1 1 20
25 Yusuke Kitaoka Toyota JZX100 1 14 15
Kazuya Bai Nissan RPS13 14 1 15
Kuniaki Takahashi Toyota GRX130 15 15
28 Tomohiro Murayama Nissan S14 1 1 1 11 14
29 Takahiro Ueno Toyota JZZ30 14 1 1 13
30 Hokuto Masuyama Toyota JZX100 9 9
31 Kenichi Nakamura Toyota Verossa 8 8
32 Masayoshi Tokita Toyota ZN6 6 1 7
33 Mitsuru Murakami Nissan S15 5 5
34 Ken Nomura Nissan ER34 1 1 2
Manabu Fujinaka Mazda FD3S 1 1 2
36 Daychapon Toyingcharoen Nissan Z33 1 1
Ikuo Saito Toyota JZX100 1 1
Masaru Fuchigami Nissan S15 1 1
Koji Yamaguchi Nissan S14 1 1
Yoshifumi Tadokoro Toyota AE86 1 1
Tomoyuki Kitashiba Lexus GSE20 1 1

References

  1. ^ "Tokyo Drift". d1gp.co.jp. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  2. ^ "新ドリフトシリーズ開催のお知らせ". d1gp.co.jp. 5 December 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
  3. ^ "2017 Drivers Ranking". d1gp.co.jp. Retrieved 11 November 2017.