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]


Hideyuki Fujino win his first D1GP championship.

Teams and drivers

D1GP

Tire Team Car No. Drivers Round(s)
Dunlop Pacific Racing Team Nissan ER34 3 Japan Ken Nomura 1–6
Pacific Racing Team Nissan S14 14 Japan Tomohiro Murayama [jp] 1–6
広島トヨタ team DROO-P Toyota ZN6 33 Japan Kazuki Hayashi 1–7
Tanabe Team Toyota JZX100 38 Japan Tadahiro Fukada 1–6
Gator Team-Ryoji Nissan C33 44 Japan Kenji Kiguchi 1–7
OTG Toyota ZN6 60 Japan Youichi Imamura 1–7
広島トヨタ team DROO-P Toyota AE85 99 Japan Kazuya Matsukawa 1–7
Goodride Team TNR PROSHOP Wave Nissan S14 16 Japan Koji Yamaguchi 1–6
BSM Japan Speed Master Nissan S15 49 Japan Hiroyuki Matsuta 1–3
Team-Tetsujin OS Giken Nissan S15 55 Japan Kunihiko Teramachi 1–7
Stealth Team Red Nissan S15 58 Japan Tachiki Sato 1–3
Team Hanpen Wako's Toyota Verossa 72 Japan Kenichi Nakamura 3–6
TOPTUL West Auto Toyota JZX100 73 Japan Ikuo Saito 1–6
Nichiei Racing Nissan S15 86 China Zhang Shaohua 1–3
TCP Magic Mazda FD3S 88 Japan Manabu Fujinaka 1–6
Goodyear Team Mori Lexus GRS191 5 Japan Kenji Takayama 1–7
Team St.GARAGE Toyota JZX100 10 Japan Hokuto Matsuyama 1–6
AST Toyota ZN6 28 Japan Masayoshi Tokita 3, 5-6
Heart Up World Lexus GSE20 48 Japan Tomoyuki Kitashiba 1–6
Ito Auto Toyota JZX100 52 Japan Yusuke Kitaoka 1–6
Origin Labo. Nissan RPS13 81 Japan Kazuya Bai 1–6
Team Kunny'z Toyota GRX130 92 Japan Kuniaki Takahashi 1–6
Kenda Team UP GARAGE Nissan S15 18 Japan Kazuya Taguchi 1–7
Team Masaki Nissan S15 37 Japan Masaki Kasahara 1–2, 4
Nankang D-MAX Nissan S15 70 Japan Masashi Yokoi 1–7
D-MAX Nissan S15 75 Japan Akira Hirajima 1–7
Toyo Seimi Style Drift Nissan S15 2 Japan Seimi Tanaka 1–7
Dixcel Nissan S15 6 Japan Akinori Utsumi 1–7
Team RE雨宮 GruppeM Mazda FD3S 7 Japan Yukio Matsui 1–7
Samurai Kanto Mazda FC3S 21 Japan Takahiro Imamura 1–6
C.M. Feeling Nissan S15 23 Japan Mitsuru Murakami 4–6
Do-Luck Nissan Z33 32 Thailand Daychapon Toyingcharoen [th] 1–6
Glion Trust Racing Nissan R35 35 Japan Masato Kawabata 1–7
Glion Trust Racing Nissan R35 39 Japan Masao Suenaga 1–7
Used Parts Tadokoro Toyota AE86 43 Japan Yoshifumi Tadokoro 1–6
Wisteria Nissan RPS13 66 Japan Hideyuki Fujino 1–7
Wanli Yuke's Team Orange Nissan S15 9 Japan Naoto Suenaga 1–7
Bee*Racing Toyota ZN6 22 Japan Tsuyoshi Tezuka 1–7
Yuke's Team Orange Nissan S15 27 Japan Masanori Kohashi 1–7
TMS Auto Service Mori Toyota JZX100 36 Japan Kazumi Takahashi 1–7
Fat Five Racing Toyota JZX100 45 Japan Shingo Hatanaka 1–7
Fat Five Racing Chevrolet C6 87 Japan Daigo Saito 1–7
Zestino Gulf Racing Honda AP1 8 Japan Tetsuya Hibino 1–7
Z.S.S. Racing Nissan S15 15 Japan Katsuhiro Ueo 1–4, 7
Team TNR PROSHOP Wave Toyota JZX100 30 Japan Tetsuro Nakada 1–6
MSR T-Select Nissan S15 61 Japan Masaru Fuchigami 3–4
BSM Japan Speed Master Nissan A31 65 Japan Sadaki Okumura 1–2
Exedy R Magic D1 Racing Mazda NA6CE 77 Japan Teruyoshi Iwai 1–7
Vertex Toyota JZZ30 78 Japan Takahiro Ueno 1–6
N/A Origin Labo. Sunoco Nissan S14 12 Japan 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 Japan Hideyuki Fujino Japan Hideyuki Fujino Report
2 April 2 Japan Masashi Yokoi Japan Seimi Tanaka Report
3 Tsukuba Circuit, Ibaraki Prefecture June 24–25 Japan Masato Kawabata Japan Tetsuya Hibino Report
4 Maishima Sports Island, Osaka Prefecture July 23–24 Japan Hideyuki Fujino Japan Hideyuki Fujino Report
5 Ebisu Circuit, Fukushima Prefecture August 19 Japan Hideyuki Fujino Japan Hideyuki Fujino Report
6 August 20 Japan Daigo Saito Japan Yukio Matsui Report
7 Odaiba, Tokyo Prefecture October 7–8 Japan Masashi Yokoi Japan 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 Japan Hideyuki Fujino Nissan RPS13 30 22 6 17 30 10 22 131
2 Japan Masashi Yokoi Nissan S15 22 30 1 14 12 20 30 128
3 Japan Daigo Saito Chevrolet C6 6 25 22 1 30 25 109
4 Japan Akira Hirajima Nissan S15 20 7 14 20 14 25 14 107
5 Japan Masato Kawabata Nissan R35 17 20 30 8 7 15 16 106
6 Japan Naoto Suenaga Nissan S15 14 1 16 20 16 20 87
7 Japan Yukio Matsui Mazda FD3S 1 11 25 10 17 17 81
8 Japan Youichi Imamura Toyota ZN6 12 17 16 1 22 6 1 74
9 Japan Masanori Kohashi Toyota SXE10 25 1 1 9 25 7 6 73
10 Japan Shingo Hatanaka Toyota JZX100 8 9 15 16 8 8 64
11 Japan Masao Suenaga Nissan R35 22 30 1 1 1 55
12 Japan Akinori Utsumi Nissan S15 1 7 11 22 12 53
13 Japan Kazuya Matsukawa Toyota AE85 5 25 1 15 1 5 52
14 Japan Tsuyoshi Tezuka Toyota ZN6 15 16 8 1 1 9 50
15 Japan Seimi Tanaka Nissan S15 9 12 10 1 1 15 48
16 Japan Tetsuya Hibino Honda AP1 10 11 12 1 1 1 11 46
17 Japan Teruyoshi Iwai Mazda NA6CE 1 8 1 6 11 12 7 45
18 Japan Kunihiko Teramachi Nissan S15 9 15 17 1 42
19 Japan Katsuhiro Ueo Nissan S15 7 10 17 1 1 36
20 Japan Kazuya Taguchi Nissan S15 11 1 10 10 32
21 Japan Kenji Kiguchi Nissan C33 16 1 9 1 1 28
22 Japan Kenji Takayama Lexus GRS191 6 1 7 5 1 1 21
Japan Kazuki Hayashi Toyota ZN6 20 1 21
24 Japan Kazumi Takahashi Toyota JZX100[broken anchor] 1 5 12 1 1 20
25 Japan Yusuke Kitaoka Toyota JZX100[broken anchor] 1 14 15
Japan Kazuya Bai Nissan RPS13 14 1 15
Japan Kuniaki Takahashi Toyota GRX130 15 15
28 Japan Tomohiro Murayama Nissan S14 1 1 1 11 14
29 Japan Takahiro Ueno Toyota JZZ30 14 1 1 13
30 Japan Hokuto Masuyama Toyota JZX100 9 9
31 Japan Kenichi Nakamura Toyota Verossa 8 8
32 Japan Masayoshi Tokita Toyota ZN6 6 1 7
33 Japan Mitsuru Murakami Nissan S15 5 5
34 Japan Ken Nomura Nissan ER34 1 1 2
Japan Manabu Fujinaka Mazda FD3S 1 1 2
36 Thailand Daychapon Toyingcharoen [th] Nissan Z33 1 1
Japan Ikuo Saito Toyota JZX100 1 1
Japan Masaru Fuchigami Nissan S15 1 1
Japan Koji Yamaguchi Nissan S14 1 1
Japan Yoshifumi Tadokoro Toyota AE86 1 1
Japan 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.