2018 D1 Grand Prix series

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The 2018 D1 Grand Prix series is the eighteenth season for the D1 Grand Prix series. The season began on March 31 at Maishima Sports Island in Osaka, and ended on November 3 at the Odaiba Tokyo Street Course.[1] This season also marked the commencement of the new D1 Lights series, with the preseason match on January 20, at Nikko Circuit, with the season ending on December 1 at the same venue.[2]

Teams and drivers edit

Tire Team Car No. Drivers Round(s)
Dunlop Pacific Racing Team Nissan ER34 3   Ken Nomura 1-8
Pacific Racing Team Nissan S14 14   Tomohiro Murayama [jp] 1-8
Hirano Tire Toyota JZX100 22   Kenji Kiguchi 1-2, 5-7
広島トヨタ team DROO-P Toyota ZN6 33   Kazuki Hayashi 1-8
Tanabe SSR Team Toyota JZX100 38   Tadahiro Fukada [jp] 1-3
Fat Five Racing Toyota JZX100 45   Shingo Hatanaka 1-8
Silky House OTG Toyota ZN6 60   Youichi Imamura 1-2
広島トヨタ team DROO-P Toyota AE85 99   Kazuya Matsukawa 1-8
Goodride adidas a-unit G-meister Nissan S15 16   Koji Yamaguchi 1-8
GARAGE わいず Nissan PS13 17   Teruaki Shimoda 3
北九州 MSR Nissan S15 31   Masaru Fuchigami 3, 5-7
MMM Chroma Racing Ferrari 550 42   Kunihiko Teramachi -
Nichiei Racing Nissan S15 61   Feng Jen-Chih 1-2
Moty's West Auto Toyota JZX100 73   Ikuo Saito 1-3, 5
Fat Five Racing Chevrolet C6 87   Daigo Saito 1-2, 5
TCP Magic Mazda FD3S 88   Manabu Fujinaka 1-2
Goodyear AST Toyota ZN6 28   Masayoshi Tokita 1-8
Sunoco Lexus GSE20 48   Tomoyuki Kitashiba 1-3, 5
Origin Labo. Nissan RPS13 81   Kazuya Bai 1-8
Team Kunny'z Toyota GRX130 92   Kuniaki Takahashi 4-7
Nankang かいとりちゃん オルビスレーシング Nissan S15 46   Yoshitatsu Kaneda 6-7
D-MAX Nissan S15 70   Masashi Yokoi 1-8
D-MAX Nissan S15 75   Akira Hirajima 1-2
Toyo Seimi Style Drift Nissan S15 2   Seimi Tanaka 5-8
Dixcel Nissan S15 6   Akinori Utsumi [jp] 1-8
Team RE雨宮 K&N Mazda FD3S 7   Yukio Matsui [jp] 1-8
Fun Style Racing Toyota AE86 19   Noboru Morita 6-7
Samurai Kanto Mazda FC3S 21   Takahiro Imamura 4-7
Team C.M.Feeling Nissan S15 23   Mitsuru Murakami 1-3
Do-Luck Toyota ZN6 32   Daychapon Toyingcharoen [th] 1-8
Glion Trust Racing Nissan R35 35   Masato Kawabata 1-8
TMS Racing Team Toyota JZX100 36   Kazumi Takahashi 1-8
Glion Trust Racing Nissan R35 39   Masao Suenaga 1-8
Used Parts Tadokoro Toyota AE86 43   Yoshifumi Tadokoro 1-7
Wisteria Nissan RPS13 66   Hideyuki Fujino 1-8
Team Julius Nissan RPS13 84   Charles Ng 1-8
TRI-ACE Team Mori パーツオフ Toyota JZX100 30   Tetsuro Nakada 1-8
Team Mori パーツオフ Toyota JZX100 52   Yusuke Kitaoka 1-8
Zestino Yuke's Team Orange Nissan S15 4   Masanori Kohashi 1-8
Navigate KRC Nissan S14 5   Takatoshi Imamaeda 1-2
K'SPEC SunRISE Racing Honda AP1 8   Tetsuya Hibino 1-7
Yuke's Team Orange Nissan S15 9   Naoto Suenaga 1-8
Team ZSS Racing Nissan S15 15   Katsuhiro Ueo 1-8
R Magic H.D.O D1 Racing Mazda NA6CE 77   Teruyoshi Iwai 1-7
Team Vertex Digicam Toyota JZZ30 78   Takahiro Ueno 1-8
N/A Origin Labo. Sunoco Nissan S14 12   Yoshikazu Kawakami 1-2

Schedule edit

2018 D1 Grand Prix race locations
Round Venue Date Winner Report
1 Maishima Sports Island, Osaka Prefecture March 31   Shingo Hatanaka Report
2 April 1   Hideyuki Fujino Report
3 Autopolis, Ōita Prefecture April 14–15   Masashi Yokoi Report
4 Tokachi International Speedway, Hokkaido Prefecture June 9–10   Masashi Yokoi Report
5 Tsukuba Circuit, Ibaraki Prefecture July 21–22   Yukio Matsui Report
6 Ebisu Circuit, Fukushima Prefecture August 25   Masanori Kohashi Report
7 August 26   Masashi Yokoi Report
8 Odaiba, Tokyo Metropolis November 3   Akinori Utsumi Report

Drivers' rankings edit

D1GP edit

Pos. Driver[3] Car Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Rd.4 Rd.5 Rd.6 Rd.7 Rd.8 Total
1   Masashi Yokoi Nissan S15 20 9 30 30 DSQ 25 30 22 166
2   Masato Kawabata Nissan R35 25 12 22 22 17 17 20 11 134
3   Naoto Suenaga Nissan S15 11 16 25 25 22 DSQ 7 12 118
4   Masao Suenaga Nissan R35 22 20 12 1 16 15 25 111
  Yusuke Kitaoka Toyota JZX100 22 25 1 1 7 20 16 20 111
6   Hideyuki Fujino Nissan RPS13 17 30 17 11 20 9 DSQ 6 110
7   Yukio Matsui Mazda FD3S 6 17 1 1 30 12 22 16 104
8   Shingo Hatanaka Toyota JZX100 30 11 16 17 1 1 11 1 87
9   Akinori Utsumi Nissan S15 7 12 11 17 30 77
10   Katsuhiro Ueo Nissan S15 16 10 15 6 16 1 10 74
11   Daychapon Toyingcharoen [th] Toyota ZN6 15 1 10 25 1 9 8 69
12   Takahiro Ueno Toyota JZZ30 1 14 20 9 10 1 9 64
13   Masanori Kohashi Nissan S15 DSQ 1 9 1 30 8 14 63
14   Charles Ng Nissan RPS13 10 5 5 12 14 1 15 62
15   Seimi Tanaka Nissan S15 14 8 14 17 53
16   Kazuya Bai Nissan RPS13 20 11 1 11 1 1 45
17   Tetsuro Nakada Toyota JZX100 14 10 1 8 5 38
  Kazumi Takahashi Toyota JZX100 12 1 14 10 1 38
19   Koji Yamaguchi Nissan S15 7 15 5 5 1 33
20   Masayoshi Tokita Toyota ZN6 15 7 1 1 1 7 32
21   Tomohiro Murayama Nissan S14 8 1 1 6 12 1 29
22   Kazuki Hayashi Toyota ZN6 9 15 1 25
23   Kazuya Matsukawa Toyota AE85 8 1 5 1 7 1 1 24
24   Ken Nomura Nissan ER34 14 1 6 1 1 23
25   Tetsuya Hibino Honda AP1 1 1 16 1 1 20
26   Kuniaki Takahashi Toyota GRX130 1 15 1 17
27   Kenji Kiguchi Toyota JZX100 5 1 10 16
28   Takatoshi Imamaeda Nissan S14 9 6 15
29   Yoshifumi Tadokoro Toyota AE86 1 1 1 8 11
30   Tomoyuki Kitashiba Lexus GSE20 1 6 1 8
  Youichi Imamura Toyota ZN6 1 7 8
32   Yoshitatsu Kaneda Nissan S15 6 6
  Ikuo Saito Toyota JZX100 1 5 6
34   Teruyoshi Iwai Mazda NA6CE 1 1 1 1 1 5
35   Daigo Saito Chevrolet C6 1 1 2
  Mitsuru Murakami Nissan S15 1 1 2
37   Masaru Fuchigami Nissan S15 1 1
  Akira Hirajima Nissan S15 1 1
  Feng Jen Chih Nissan S15 1 1

References edit

  1. ^ "2018 Event Schedule". d1gp.co.jp. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  2. ^ "D1SLから進化した新シリーズがスタート!". d1gp.co.jp. Archived from the original on 28 December 2017. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  3. ^ "2018 Drivers Ranking". d1gp.co.jp. Retrieved 17 November 2018.

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