2023 D1 Grand Prix series

2023 Gran Turismo D1 Grand Prix series will be the 23rd season of D1 Grand Prix planned to be started in May 13 in Okuibuki Motorpark and finished at Odaiba in November 12th.[1]

Masashi Yokoi is the series reigning champion.

Schedule

Calendar released by D1GP[1]

Round Venue Date Winner Report
Solo Run Battle
Kick Off Drift Makuhari Messe, Chiba Prefecture January 14 & 15 Exhibition only
0 (Exhibition) Fuji Speedway, Shizuoka Prefecture April 23 Hideyuki Fujino Hideyuki Fujino [2]
1 Okuibuki Motorpark, Shiga Prefecture May 13 Seimi Tanaka Masashi Yokoi [3]
2 May 14 Masashi Yokoi Masashi Yokoi [4]
3 Tsukuba Circuit, Ibaraki Prefecture June 24 Koudai Sobagiri Katsuhiro Ueo [5]
4 June 25 Koudai Sobagiri Koudai Sobagiri [6]
5 Ebisu Circuit, Fukushima Prefecture August 26 Hideyuki Fujino Masato Kawabata [7]
6 August 27 Hokuto Matsuyana Hideyuki Fujino [8]
7 Autopolis, Oita Prefecture October 28
8 October 29
9 Odaiba, Tokyo Bay November 11
10 November 12

Changes
  • Fuji Speedway will only held an exhibition event rather than championship round as previous season.
  • Odaiba returned to host D1GP round for the first time since 2018 season, 2019 was the last time D1GP ever held any event at Odaiba as the venue was in use for 2020 Summer Olympics. The round will be certified as JAF CUP.[9]
  • After 1 year absent D1GP planned to returned to Tsukuba Circuit.
  • Okuibuki and Ebisu round will held alongside D1 Lights.

Drivers and Teams
Team No Driver Machine Tires Rounds
D-MAX RACING TEAM 70 Japan Masashi Yokoi Nissan Silvia (S15) Goodride 1-6
46 Japan Masao Suenaga Nissan Silvia (S15) 1-6
TEAM TOYO TIRES DRIFT 88 Japan Masato Kawabata Toyota GR86 (ZN8) Toyo Tires 1-6
66 JapanHideyuki Fujino Toyota GR86 (ZN8) 1-6
VALINO x N-STYLE 99 Japan Naoki Nakamura Toyota GR86 (ZN8) Valino 1-6
TEAM MORI 52 Japan Yusuke Kitaoka Toyota Mark II (JZX100) Shibatire 1-6
SHIBATA RACING TEAM 31 Japan Koudai Sobagiri Infiniti Q60 Shibatire 1-6
18 Japan Tetsuya Hibino Toyota GR86 (ZN8) 1-6
SHIBATA RACING SEIMI STYLE DRIFT 2 Japan Seimi Tanaka Nissan Silvia (S15) 1-6
+Leno Racing watanabe 77 Japan Hokuto Matsuyama Toyota GR Supra (J29/DB) Toyo Tires 1-6
TMS RACING G-MEISTER 16 Japan Koji Yamaguchi BMW 3-Series (E92) Valino 1-6
79 Japan Kojiro Mekuwa BMW 3-Series (E92) 1-6
36 Japan Kazumi Takahashi BMW 3-Series (E92) TBA TBA
FAT FIVE RACING 87 Japan Daigo Saito Toyota GR Supra (J29/DB) Goodride 1-2
Shibatire 3-6
DRIFT STAR RACING X RACING GEAR 98 Japan Hiroki Vito Nissan Silvia (S13) Valino/ Drift Star 1-6
VALINO 15 Japan Katsuhiro Ueo Nissan Silvia (S15) Valino 1-6
Z CHALLENGER x BOOSTAR 69 Japan Ryusei Akiba Nissan Silvia (S15) Valino 1-6
75 Japan Yumeto Hatanaka Toyota Chaser (JZX100) 5-6
TEAM RE雨宮 ﾏﾂﾓﾄｷﾖｼ APA 7 Japan Yukio Matsui Mazda RX-7 (FD3S) Toyo Tires 1-6
RS WATANABE SPEEDMASTER 43 Japan Yoshifumi Tadokoro Toyota AE86 Habilead 1-6
51 Japan Teruyoshi Iwai Mazda RX-7 (FC3S) Federal 1-6
Mercury 車楽人 VALINO 38 Japan Sayaka Shimoda Nissan Silvia (S15) Valino 1-6
GP SPORTS 56 Japan Takahiro Mori Nissan 180SX (RPS13) Valino 1-6
WEINS Toyota Kanagawa x OREDA RACING 90 Japan Genki Mogami Toyota GR Supra (J29/DB) Yokohama 1-6
Team VERTEX x NEXZTER x D2D 78 Japan Takahiro Ueno Lexus RC Goodride 1-6
95 Thailand Daychapon Toyingcharoen Toyota Soarer (Z30) Toyo Tires 1-4
Nissan Silvia (S15) 5-6
Repair Create x 326Power 11 Japan Mitsuru Murakami Toyota GR86 (ZN8) Shibatire 1-6
TEAM TNR 30 Japan Tetsuro Nakata Toyota Mark II (JZX100) Zestino 3-4
GUNSAI Racing SHIBATIRE 27 Japan Takeshi Mogi Nissan Silvia (S15) Shibatire 1-6
EWALU RACING SHIBATIRE 84 Japan Masakazu Hashi Nissan Skyline (R34) Shibatire 1-2
HIRANO TIRE ★ VALINO RACING 8 Japan Tetsuya Kume Nissan Silvia (S15) Valino 1-6
93 Japan Hiroki Kano Nissan Silvia (S15) 1-6
FORGEDcrew x SATO RANCH 9 Japan Wataru Yamamoto Nissan Silvia (S15) Shibatire 3-6
DSL.com 86 Japan Shigehisa Sasayama Toyota GR86 (ZN8) Valino 3-6
Team miyaseimitsu 38 Japan Hisashi Saito Nissan Silvia (S15) Valino 5-6
浅井工業 SP security レーシングチーム 6 Japan Akinori Utsumi Nissan Silvia (S15) TBA 3-4
MUSEE PLATINUM DxD 12 Japan Sumika Kubokawa Nissan 180SX (RPS13) Shibatire 1-6
HIROSHIMA TOYOTA Team DRoo-P 55 Japan Kazuya Matsukawa Toyota Sprinter (AE85) Dunlop 1-6
33 Japan Junya Ishikawa Toyota GR86 (ZN8) 1-6
TBA 29 Japan Yuji Saito Nissan Silvia (S15) TBA 1-2
GOODRIDE x NEXZTER 45 Thailand Chanatpon Kerdpiam Nissan Silvia (S15) Goodride 1-6
Hot Wheels x Rocket Bunny Racing 39 JapanToshiki Nagai Nissan Silvia (S13) Toyo Tires 3-6
NEXZTER DRIVE TO DRIFT 63 Thailand Konpichit Toyingcharoen Nissan 180SX (RPS13) 5-6
89 Thailand Lattapon Keawchin Toyota Supra (J29/DB) 5-6

Changes
  • D-MAX changes their tire supplier to Goodride, ending 7 year partnership with Nankang.[10]
  • Naoki Nakamura return as Valino's works driver alongside Katsuhiro Ueo and will debut a newly build 2JZ powered GR86.[11]
  • On Toyo Tires talkshow at 2023 Tokyo Auto Salon, Daigo Saito announce that he will be using Toyo Tires for this season replacing Yokohama.[12]but on first round he's using Goodride instead of Toyo. He will also compete under Fat Five Racing team after TMAR fell through in 2021. For round 3 onwards Daigo use Shibatire and would be supported by them.[13]
  • After 2 years out of D1GP, Tetsuya Hibino return as Shibatire Racing Team second driver and will be driving a Toyota GR86 previously driven by Koudai Sobagiri in Formula Drift Japan[14] he replace Masakazu Hashi who will compete as privateer and still using Shibatire. On later date Seimi Tanaka is announced to be joining the team and Shibatire will support Yusuke Kitaoka, Masakazu Hashi, Takeshi Mogi, Wataru Yamamoto and Sumika Kubokawa as tire supplier.[15]
  • Both Team G-Meister driver Koji Yamaguchi and Kojiro Mekuwa will participate in E92 BMW 3 Series with support from TMS Racing and entered as "TMS RACING G-MESITER", Kazumi Takahashi planned to pariticipate as spot driver. [16]
  • Hiroki Vito will compete under Team Drift Star x RG.[17]
  • RE Amemiya reform partnership with their old JGTC sponsor Matsumoto Kiyoshi as their main sponsor.[18]
  • Takahiro Mori swtich tires from Vitour to Valino.
  • Mitsuru Murakami replace his car to Toyota GR86
  • Genki Mogami graduate from D1 Lights and elected to be the driver for WEINS Toyota Kanagawa x OREDA! Racing after an audition held by Oreda Racing.[19]
  • Takahiro Ueno planned to debut his second Lexus RC with aim of it being lighter than his previous car. He will be joined by returning Daychapon Toyingcharoen who will borrowing Toyota Soarer from Ueno but later fielding his own S15 Silvia.
  • Hirano Tire ★ Valino entered Tetsuya Kume and Hiroki Kano with both driver using a Nissan Silvia S15.[20]
  • Wataru Yamamoto will compete in a S15 Silvia replacing A90 Supra he use in 2022.[21]
  • Shigehisa Sasayama will use Toyota GR86 previously driven by Hokuto Matsuyama in Formula Drift Japan.
  • Former D1 Ladies League champions, Sumika Kubokawa will make her debut in D1GP, Kubokawa had previously compete in D1 Street Legal and D1 Lights.[22]
  • Team Droo-P returned to D1GP after last competing in 2018 with Kazuya Matsukawa and Junya Ishikawa as driver both returning to D1GP.[23]
  • Yumeto Hatanaka graduate from D1 Lights to join Ryusei Akiba in Z CHALLENGER x BOOSTAR Team.
  • Chanatpon Kerdiam make his returm to D1GP.[10]
  • Toshiki Nagai makes his debut with Hot Wheels x Rocket Bunny Racing driving an S13 Silvia starting from round 3.
  • NEXZTER DRIVE TO DRIFT enter 2 Thai driver Konpichit Toyingcharoen and Lattapon Keawchin from round 5.

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