PROFILPELAJAR.COM

Yoshinori Koguchi
Yoshinori Koguchi
Nationality	Japan
Born	2 February 1969 (age 55); Tochigi, Japan
D1 Grand Prix career
Debut season	2001
Current team	Dunlop Tyres
Wins	1
Best finish	10th in 2007
Previous series
	(previous series with line breaks)
Championship titles
	(championship titles)

Yoshinori Koguchi (古口美範, Koguchi Yoshinori, 2 February 1969 in Tochigi) is a Japanese professional drifting driver, who competes in the D1 Grand Prix series for Dunlop Tyres and Koguchi Power.

Like many of the other D1 drivers, he owns his own tuning garage called Koguchi Power. Yoshinori does all of the work on his car himself.^{[citation needed]} He has a following of Nissan 180SX enthusiasts as he is one of the top 180SX drivers, also his car is the same one that he started out in. His car uses mostly off the shelf parts. His nickname is 'Emperor'.^{[citation needed]}

He has been competing in D1 since it began in 2001 and scored points in his Nissan 180SX in the first three seasons. He then switched to a Nissan Silvia S15 sponsored by tuning firm High Power Improvement, he did not do well in the car or the Toyota Chaser he used after. So in 2007 he changed back to his 180SX and has done well. Usually if he makes it into the top 16 he will score big points, gaining his first win in round 2 of the 2008 season.^{[citation needed]}

Drifting results

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Last 4 [Semi-final]
Blue	Last 8 [Quarter-final]
Purple	Last 16 (16) [1st Tsuiou Round OR Tandem Battle] (Numbers are given to indicate Top 10 finish)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ) (Given to indicate that the driver has been stripped of their position through disqualification)
White	First Round (TAN) [Tansou OR Qualifying Single Runs]
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)

When driver's position are highlighted in blue, this indicates either the driver earned 100pt or 100pt tansou (solo run) bonus has been awarded, with the latter being in use for Pre-2005.

D1 Grand Prix

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Position	Points
2001	Koguchi Power	Nissan 180SX RPS13	EBS 8	NIK	BHH TAN	EBS TAN	NIK 8				16	12
2002	Koguchi Power	Nissan 180SX RPS13	BHH TAN	EBS TAN	SGO TAN	TKB TAN	EBS 8	SEK DNQ	NIK 5		17	18
2003	Koguchi Power	Nissan 180SX RPS13	TKB TAN	BHH TAN	SGO TAN	FUJ DNQ	EBS 9	SEK	TKB DNQ		22	4
2004	HPI	Nissan 180SX RPS13	IRW TAN								-	0
2004	HPI	Nissan Silvia S15		SGO 16	EBS TAN	APS DNQ	ODB DNQ	EBS DNQ	TKB DNQ		-	0
2005	HPI	Nissan Silvia S15	IRW TAN	ODB DNQ	SGO DNQ	APS DNQ	EBS DNQ	FUJ DNQ	TKB DNQ		-	0
2006		Toyota Chaser JZX100	IRW TAN	SGO DNQ	FUJ DNQ	APS TAN	EBS DNQ	SUZ DNQ	FUJ DNQ	IRW TAN	-	0
2007	Koguchi Power	Nissan 180SX RPS13	EBS DNQ	FUJ 5	SUZ	SGO TAN	EBS DNQ	APS DNQ	FUJ 2		10	31
2008	Dunlop Tyres	Nissan 180SX RPS13	EBS TAN	FUJ 1	SUZ TAN	OKY 8	APS 16	EBS	FUJ 5		11	50