2021 D1 Grand Prix series

The 2021 Gran Turismo D1 Grand Prix series is the twenty-first season of D1 Grand Prix started on April 24 at Okuibuki Motopark and ended on November 21 at Ebisu Circuit.[1]

Masanori Kohashi is the defending champions.

Teams and Drivers

Team No Driver Machine Tires Round
LINGLONG TIRE DRIFT Team ORANGE 4 Japan Masanori Kohashi Nissan Silvia (S15) Linglong All
9 Japan Naoto Suenaga Nissan Silvia (S15) All
NANKANG TIRE DRIFT TEAM D-MAX 70 Japan Masashi Yokoi Nissan Silvia (S15) Nankang All
46 Japan Masao Suenaga Nissan Silvia (S15) All
Team TOYO TIRES DRIFT 66 Japan Hideyuki Fujino Toyota 86 (ZN6) Toyo Tires All
90 Japan Masato Kawabata Toyota GR Supra (A90) All
MUGEN PLUS team ALIVE VALINO 99 Japan Naoki Nakamura Nissan Silvia (S15) Valino All
TEAM SAILUN TIRE 2 Japan Seimi Tanaka Nissan Silvia (S15) Sailun All
6 Japan Akinori Utsumi Nissan Silvia (S15) All
FAT FIVE RACING 87 Japan Daigo Saito Toyota GR Supra (A90) Sailun 1-2,7-10,5-6
77 Japan Hokuto Matsuyama Toyota GR Supra (A90) Toyo Tires All
Team RE雨宮 K&N 7 Japan Yukio Matsui Mazda RX-7 (FD3S) Toyo Tires All
TEAM VERTEX SAILUN TIRE 78 Japan Takahiro Ueno Lexus RC (GSC10) Sailun 1-7,9-10
VALINO 15 Japan Katsuhiro Ueo Nissan Silvia (S15) Valino All
TEAM MORI 52 Japan Yusuke Kitaoka Toyota Mark II (JZX100) Linglong All
横浜トヨペット SAILUN 俺だっ！ 91 Japan Shingo Hatanaka Toyota GR Supra (A90) Sailun All
TEAM SHIBATA SAILUN TIRE 31 Japan Koudai Sobagiri Infiniti Q60 (Q60) Sailun All
RS WATANABE SPEED MASTER BUY NOW JAPAN 43 Japan Yoshifumi Tadokoro Toyota Sprinter Trueno (AE86) Toyo Tires All
51 Japan Teruyoshi Iwai Mazda RX-7 (FC3S) Vitour All
alpinestars LINGLONG G-MEISTER 16 Japan Koji Yamaguchi Nissan Silvia (S15) Linglong All
79 Japan Kojiro Mekuwa Nissan 180SX (RPS13) All
TMS RACING TEAM SAILUN TIRE 36 Japan Kazumi Takahashi BMW 3 Series (E92) Sailun All
VITOUR TIRE & SPEED MASTER 27 Japan Takeshi Mogi Nissan Silvia (S15) Vitour All
Team M2 Racing 33 Japan Shigehisa Sasayama Toyota Chaser Valino All
25 Japan Masataka Kawashima Toyota GR Supra (A90) Toyo Tires 1-2,7-10,5-6
AUTO-TEC-RACING 19 Japan Kentaro Kawai Toyota Chaser Sailun All
MSR.kitakyushu 17 Japan Masaru Fuchigami Nissan Silvia (S15) Sailun All
Team CM Feeling 23 Japan Mitsuru Murakami Nissan Silvia (S15) Toyo Tires 1-2,7-10,5-6
OS-GIKEN SUNOCO 48 Japan Tomoyuki Kitashiba Toyota 86 (ZN6) Goodride 9-10
GP SPORTS 56 Japan Takahiro Mori Nissan 180SX (RPS13) Vitour All
Team BOOSTAR 69 Japan Ryusei Akiba Nissan Silvia (S15) Valino 7-8,5-6
GARAGE わいず 76 Japan Teruaki Shimoda Nissan Silvia (S13) Sailun 9-10
PEACE WORKS 男気  DRIFT Racing 84 Japan Masakazu Hashi Nissan Silvia (S15) Valino All

Source : 2021 D1GP Drivers

Schedule

Round Venue Date Winner
Single Run Follow-up
1 Okuibuki Motorpark, Shiga Prefecture April 24 Hokuto Matsuyama Daigo Saito [2]
2 April 25 Hokuto Matsuyama Masashi Yokoi [3]
3 Tsukuba Circuit, Ibaraki Prefecture June 26 Naoki Nakamura Akinori Utsumi [4]
4 June 27 Yukio Matsui Masanori Kohashi [5]
7 Okuibuki Motorpark, Shiga Prefecture October 2 Koudai Sobagiri Naoki Nakamura [6]
8 October 3 Naoki Nakamura Naoki Nakamura [7]
9 Autopolis, Oita Prefecture October 30 Naoki Nakamura Yukio Matsui [8]
10 October 31 Naoki Nakamura Naoki Nakamura [9]
5 Ebisu Circuit, Fukushima Prefecture November 20 Masashi Yokoi Naoto Suenaga [10]
6 November 21 Masashi Yokoi Naoki Nakamura [11]

Note : Round 5 and 6 supposed to be held on August 21 and 22, but were postponed due to the rising COVID-19 cases in Japan. The event was moved to November 20 and 21 but the event was not renamed.[12]

Ranking

Drivers' Ranking

Pos Driver Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Rd.4 Rd.7 Rd.8 Rd.9 Rd.10 Rd.5 Rd.6 Total
1 Naoki Nakamura 11 21 12 15 25 29 17 29 20 27 206
2 Masashi Yokoi 5 25 19 21 16 21 15 8 17 22 169
3 Kazumi Takahashi 16 18 14 20 11 13 19 3 0 11 125
4 Masao Suenaga 16 16 7 10 7 23 10 11 11 0 111
5 Kojiro Mekuwa 13 16 0 3 22 10 0 2 21 16 103
6 Yukio Matsui 0 6 21† 17 0 9 25 0 15 4 97
7 Masanori Kohashi 0 0 10 25 20 0 0 0 17 22 94
8 Hokuto Matsuyama 22 12 0 2 4 11 21 18 1 0 91
9 Seimi Tanaka 3 14 11 16 6 1 0 12 8 16 87
10 Naoto Suenaga 10 2 16 0 0 12 5 5 25 0 75
11 Hideyuki Fujino 23 12 0 0 5 16 0 0 6 12 74
12 Daigo Saito 25 10 0 0 16 0 6 0 7 2 66
13 Yusuke Kitaoka 8 4 1 5 12 3 4 13 0 8 58
14 Koudai Sobagiri 4 0 16 9 12 6 0 6 0 0 53
15 Akinori Utsumi 6 5 21† 6 0 0 0 11 3 0 52
16 Shingo Hatanaka 7 0 6 7 0 4 10 0 10 5 49
17 Takahiro Ueno 1 3 0 4 10 0 0 23 0 7 48
18 Masato Kawabata 0 7 0 11 3 5 16 0 0 6 48
19 Mitsuru Murakami 0 0 0 0 0 7 11 10 0 0 28
20 Katsuhiro Ueo 0 1 0 0 0 0 7 16 2 0 26
21 Shigehisa Sasayama 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 5 10 20
22 Yoshifumi Tadakoro 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 7
23 Takeshi Mogi 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6
24 Teruyoshi Iwai 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 6
25 Takahiro Mori 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5
26 Koji Yamagauchi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4
27 Ryusei Akiba 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
28 Masakazu Hashi 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 3
29 Masaru Fuchigami 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
30 Hisashi Saito 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Note :

  • Bold : Tsuiso (Dual-run) Winner
  • Italic : Tanso (Single-run) WInner
  • † - Round 3 at Tsubaka was abandoned before the final because of curfew. Both finalists were co-champions for championship purposes, and the points for both first and second place were combined and split, with each driver awarded 21 points each as co-champions. Akinori Utsumi was symbolically the winner based on higher seed.[4]

Tanso series Ranking

Pos. Driver Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Rd.4 Rd.7 Rd.8 Rd.9 Rd.10 Rd.5 Rd.6 Total
1 Naoki Nakamura 10 12 20 16 7 20 20 20 15 15 155
2 Masashi Yokoi 8 13 14 8 16 16 16 14 20 20 145
3 Masao Suenaga 16 16 11 12 11 15 15 16 6 0 118
4 Kazumi Takahashi 7 7 15 15 12 13 14 7 0 10 100
5 Hokuto Matsuyama 20 20 0 2 5 11 10 11 1 0 80
6 Seimi Tanaka 3 15 13 4 8 1 0 6 13 16 79
7 Yukio Matsui 0 10 7 20 0 14 6 0 16 4 77
8 Yusuke Kitaoka 13 5 2 6 13 3 7 10 0 13 72
9 Koudai Sobagiri 4 0 12 14 20 7 0 13 0 0 70
10 Naoto Suenaga 6 3 16 0 0 12 8 12 8 0 65
11 Kojiro Mekuwa 14 1 0 3 14 10 0 3 7 11 63
12 Hideyuki Fujino 15 14 0 0 6 4 0 0 11 12 62
13 Masanori Kohashi 0 0 1 11 15 0 0 0 14 14 55
14 Masato Kawabata 0 11 0 13 4 6 11 0 0 7 52
15 Shingo Hatanaka 12 0 10 10 0 5 3 0 5 6 51
16 Daigo Saito 5 8 0 0 10 0 12 0 12 2 49
17 Akinori Utsumi 11 6 8 7 0 0 0 5 3 0 40
18 Takahiro Ueno 1 4 0 5 1 0 0 15 0 8 34
19 Shigehisa Sasayama 0 0 0 0 3 0 4 0 10 5 22
20 Katsuhiro Ueo 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 4 2 0 21
21 Mitsuru Murakami 0 0 0 0 0 8 5 2 0 0 15
22 Yoshifumi Tadokoro 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 12
23 Takeshi Mogi 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7
24 Teruyoshi Iwai 2 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 7
25 Takahiro Mori 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6
26 Koji Yamaguchi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4
27 Masukazi Hashi 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 4
28 Ryusei Akiba 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
29 Masaru Fuchigami 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
30 Hisashi Saito 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Note :

Bold : Tanso (Single-run) Winner

Teams' Ranking

Pos. Team Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Rd.4 Rd.7 Rd.8 Rd.9 Rd.10 Rd.5 Rd.6 Total
1 MUGEN PLUS team ALIVE VALINO 6 20 3 6 26 26 6 26 15 26 160
2 NANKANG TIRE DRIFT TEAM D-MAX 6 26 15 20 6 20 6 3 6 15 123
3 LINGLONG TIRE DRIFT Team ORANGE 6 3 6 26 15 6 3 3 26 20 114
4 FAT FIVE RACING 26 6 　 3 10 6 20 15 3 3 92
5 TMS RACING TEAM SAILUN TIRE 10 15 6 15 6 6 15 3 　 6 82
6 alpinestars LINGLONG G-MEISTER 6 10 　 3 20 6 　 3 20 10 78
7 Team RE雨宮 K&N 　 3 20 6 　 3 26 　 6 3 67
8 Team TOYO TIRES DRIFT 20 6 　 6 3 10 10 　 3 6 64
9 TEAM SAILUN TIRE 3 6 20 10 3 3 　 6 3 6 60
10 TEAM VERTEX SAILUN TIRE 3 3 　 3 6 　 　 20 　 3 38
11 TEAM MORI 3 3 3 3 6 3 3 6 　 3 33
12 横浜トヨペット SAILUN 俺だっ 3 　 3 3 　 3 6 　 6 3 27
13 TEAM SHIBATA SAILUN TIRE 3 　 10 3 3 3 　 3 　 　 25
14 VALINO 　 3 　 　 　 　 3 10 3 　 19
15 Team M2 Racing 　 　 　 　 3 　 3 　 3 6 15
16 Team C.M.Feeling 　 　 　 　 　 3 6 6 　 　 15
17 RS WATANABE SPEED MASTER BUY NOW JAPAN 3 　 3 　 　 　 3 3 　 　 12
18 VITOUR TIRE SPEED MASTER 　 　 3 　 　 　 　 　 　 3 6
19 GP SPORTS 　 　 3 　 　 　 　 3 　 　 6
20 PEACE WORKS 男気DRIFT Racing 　 　 　 　 3 3 　 　 　 　 6
21 Team BOOSTAR 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 3 3
22 msr kitakyushu 　 　 　 　 　 　 3 　 　 　 3
23 マチュアーミヤセイミツS15 　 　 　 3 　 　 　 　 　 　 3

Source : 2021 D1GP Series ranking

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