FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

D1 Grand Prix
D1 Grand Prix USA vs Japan 2005
Irvine, CA September 27, 2005 - D1 Grand Prix has officially announced that it will be hosting its USA vs JAPAN event this year on December 16 and 17th. D1 USA vs Japan is a special exhibition round showcasing the worlds top professional drifters from Japan and putting them head to head with the upcoming US drivers in a competitive arena.

This 2 day event will be held in California at the Irwindale Speedway. Friday the 16th will be a qualifying day where licensed D1 drivers from both sides of the pacific will be fighting for a spot to race on Saturday the 17th. Competition day will start off with an equal number of drivers on both sides that will be competing. Once the drivers are selected , tandem drifting (Dog Fights) at speeds over 110MPH will take place.

D1 expects to fill the venue to maximum capacity again this year with its unmatched drifting and special attractions. For the first time ever there will be a Pre Tokyo Auto Salon show held in the vendor village. Special cars such as RE Amemiyas 2006 FD3S will be showcased as well as other 2006 Japanese tuner cars. Along with the hot cars from Japan, there will also be hot JDM campaign girls representing manufactures booths.

 

Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28T
28T
30
31
32
33T
33T
35
36T
36T
38T
38T
38T

Driver
Yasuyuki Kazama
Masao Suenaga
Youichi Imamura
Shigenobu Kumakubo
Masato Kawabata
Ken Nomura
Katsuhiro Ueo
Tatsuya Sakuma
Toshiki Yoshioka
Nobuteru Taniguchi
Tetsuya Hibino
Manabu Orido
Kazuhiro Tanaka
Tsuyoshi Tezuka
Takahiro Ueno
Ryuji Miki
Shinji Matsukawa
Rhys Millen
Naoto Suenaga
Ken Maeda
Masayoshi Tokita
Hidekazu Yoshioka
Kenji Takayama
Takumi Nozawa
Ken Shinose
Kouichi Yama****a
Hideo Hiraoka
Kuniaki Takahashi
Toyohisa Matsuda
Shinji Minowa
Dift Samurai
Shinichi Yamada
Michihiro Takatori
Kouji Togasaki
Manabu Fijinaka
Jyunichi Miyamoto
Yu Kakemizu
Atsushi Kuroi
Daigo Saito
Kensaku Komoro
Point
97
96
68
55
55
49
45
41
40
36
28
25
20
19
18
16
14
12
11
9
8
8
8

6
4
4
3
2
2
2
2

1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

 

Irvine, CA December 17th 2005 - D1 Grand Prix USA vs Japan All Star Exhibition,10,000+ spectators, was a night to note in drifting history. Vaughn Gittin Jr. a Falken Tire driver took first place in his Ford Mustang over the Japanese drivers. His road to victory was a worthy one for he defeated Yasuyuki Kazama, the 2005 series champion and Youichi Imamura the 2003 series champion. Many drivers leading up to the qualifying had troubles adjusting to the mirrored clockwise track change. Rhys Millen the leading US points leader of the 2005 series was the first to crash in practice causing him to retire. The father of Rhys, Rod Millen the famous Rally driver had his first shot in D1 and qualified up to the best 16 along with the US D1 favorites, Alex Pfeiffer, Samuel Hubinette, and Tanner Foust.

 

MARCH 4, 2006
D1GP World Title Point Series (Rd-1) 70+ New '06 world class D1 Competition Machines & Top D1 USA Teams !!

Irwindale Speedway, CA
MARCH. 4, '06 D1GP

Sponsor/Exhibitor Packet
Sponsor & Booth Application Form

Driver Entry Application Form

Contact to: D's Club Inc.
PH-949-753-0202 FX-949-753-0234

 

God I love drifting, lol.

 

the hachi' GTS.... S 13'S / S14'S..... but wait.....dont forget the tang G.T.!!!....lolz

 

Lol man I just really, really want to see some really, really old school RWD cars drift sometime.

 

heres one for yah....

March 4, Saturday 2006 D1GP Rd-1 Time Schedule
10:00 AM Gate Opens for General Public
10:00 AM Top 32 Final Competitors Practice
11:30 AM Practice Ends
12:00 PM Half Time
2:30 PM Opening Celemony
4:30 PM Elimination Round-1 (Top-32 Single Runs)
5:30 PM Best-16 Elimination Round (Twin Drift)
6:15 PM Best-16 Elimination Round (Twin Drift)
6:45 PM Best-4 Elimination Round to Final (Twin Drift)
7:00 PM Award Celemony
9:00 PM Gate Closed

 

2006 D1GP Point Series
Season Opener (Rd-1) March 4 (Sat)
at Irwindale Speedway, CA

Spnsor/Booth Application Form

2006 ļ¼¤ļ¼‘ GRAND PRIX POINT SERIES


D1GP RD-1 March 3/4(Sat) Irwindale Speedway, California USA

D1GP RD-2 Apr.29/30(Sun) Sports Land SUGO, Miyagi, Japan

D1GP RD-3 May 13/14(Sun) FUJI Speedway, Shizuoka, Japan

D1GP RD-4 July 29/30(Sun) Autopolis, Oita-ken, Japan

D1GP RD-5 Aug. 26/27(Sun) EBISU South Course, Fukushima, Japan

D1GP RD-6 Sep. 9/10(Sun) SUZUKA, Mie, Japan

D1GP RD-7 Oct. 21/22(Sun) FUJI Speedway, Shizuoka, Japan

D1GP RD-8 December California, USA


Exhibition RD-1 Jun 3/4(Sun) Shanghai, China

Exhibition RD-2 Jun 17/18(Sun) Silver Stone, UK

Exhibition RD-3 July 14/15(Sun) Las Vegas, NV. USA



2006 D1 STREET LEGAL SERIES

D1SL-1 Feb. 4/5(Sun) Sekiya Hills Kumamoto, Japan

D1SL-2 Apr. 15/16(Sun) EBISU South Course, Fukushima, Japan

D1SL-3 Apr. 29/30(Sun) SUGO, Miyagi, Japan (D1GP Week)

D1SL-4 May 13/14(Sun) FUJI Spdway, Shizuoka, Japan (D1GP Week)

D1SL-5 July 29/30(Sun) Autopolis, Oita-ken, Japan (D1GP Week)

D1SL-6 Aug. 26/27(Sun) EBISU, Fukushima, Japan (D1GP Week)

D1SL-7 Nov. 11/12(Sun) Sekiya Hills Kumamoto-ken, Japan



Domestic National Series

ā—¸ć€€USA Series

ā—¸ć€€UK Series

ā—¸ć€€Australia/ New Zealand Series

ā—¸ć€€Singapore / Malaysia Series

 

Do you actually live in Japan?