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	Ken Nomura	1–6
	Pacific Racing Team	Nissan S14	14	Tomohiro Murayama [jp]	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 [th]	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

Odaiba

Tsukuba

Maishima

Ebisu

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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^[broken anchor]	1		5	12	1		1	20
25	Yusuke Kitaoka	Toyota JZX100^[broken anchor]		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 [th]	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.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)