2016 D1 Grand Prix series

2016 D1 Grand Prix series

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The 2016 D1 Grand Prix series is the sixteenth season for the D1 Grand Prix series and the eleventh for the D1 Street Legal spinoff series. The season began on March 26 at Odaiba Tokyo Street Course for the D1GP ^[1] and ended on October 23 at the same course with Daigo Saito winning his second Championship and began on April 16 for D1SL at Bihoku Highland Circuit. ^[2] and ended on November 20 at Nikko Circuit with Katsuhiro Ueo winning his first D1SL Championship by cancellation, due to a fatal incident that happened during morning practice. ^[3]

Schedule

Round		Venue	Location	Date	Winner	Car
D1GP	D1SL
1		Odaiba	Tokyo Prefecture	March 26–27	Daigo Saito [4]	Toyota JZX100
	1	Bihoku Highland Circuit	Hiroshima Prefecture	April 16–17	Katsuhiro Ueo	Nissan Silvia S15
2		Fuji Speedway	Shizuoka Prefecture	April 23–24	Daigo Saito [5]	Toyota JZX100
	2	Ebisu Circuit	Fukushima Prefecture	May 28–29	Katsuhiro Ueo	Nissan Silvia S15
3		Tsukuba Circuit	Ibaraki Prefecture	June 25	Daigo Saito [6]	Toyota JZX100
4				June 26	Tomohiro Murayama [7]	Nissan S14
	3	Meihan Sportsland	Nara Prefecture	July 9–10	Junya Ishikawa	Nissan S14
5		Ebisu Circuit	Fukushima Prefecture	August 6	Daigo Saito [8]	Toyota JZX100
6				August 7	Tomohiro Murayama [9]	Nissan S14
	4	Maze Sea Circuit	Niigata Prefecture	August 20–21	Katsuhiro Ueo	Nissan Silvia S15
	5	Seto Inland Sea Circuit	Ehime Prefecture	October 15–16	Takatoshi Imamaeda	Nissan Silvia S14
7		Odaiba	Tokyo Prefecture	October 22–23	Daigo Saito	Toyota JZX100
	6	Nikko Circuit	Tochigi Prefecture	November 19–20	Event Cancelled	Event Cancelled

Drivers' rankings

D1GP

Pos.	Driver	Car	Rd.1	Rd.2	Rd.3	Rd.4	Rd.5	Rd.6	Rd.7	Total
1	Daigo Saito	Toyota JZX100	30	30	33	22	30		30	172
2	Masato Kawabata	Nissan R35	25	25	22	14		22	25	133
3	Hideyuki Fujino	Nissan RPS13	22	11	12		17	25	20	107
4	Masashi Yokoi	Nissan S15	7	16	25		22	17	12	99
5	Tomohiro Murayama	Nissan S14	5		10	30	7	30	9	91
6	Tetsuya Hibino	Toyota JZA80	17		20	11	1	7	14	70
7	Teruyoshi Iwai	Mazda NA6CE	1		17	12	11	9	17	67
8	Akira Hirajima	Nissan S15	1		9	20	8	1	22	61
9	Naoto Suenaga	Nissan S15	10	12			15	14	1	52
10	Kunihiko Teramachi	Nissan S15	6	17		5	16	6	1	51
11	Seimi Tanaka	Nissan S15			11	7		15	16	49
	Youichi Imamura	Toyota ZN6	1	20		17	1		10	49
13	Hokuto Matsuyama	Toyota JZX100	1		15	25	1		5	47
	Yoshifumi Tadokoro	Toyota AE86		1	16	8	20	1	1	47
15	Yukio Matsui	Mazda FD3S		8			25	12	1	46
16	Akinori Utsumi	Nissan S15	8	14		1		5	15	43
17	Tomokazu Hirota	Toyota JZX100	16	7	1	6	6		1	37
18	Kazuya Bai	Nissan RPS13	9	15	1	1		1	6	33
19	Shingo Hatanaka	Toyota JZX90 [ broken anchor ]		5		15		1	11	32
20	Kenji Takayama	Lexus GRS191	11	1	1			8	8	29
	Yusuke Kitaoka	Toyota JZX100	12					16	1	29
22	Yusuke Kusaba	Nissan PS13	20	1					7	28
23	Kazuya Matsukawa	Toyota AE85		10			14		1	25
	Shinji Minowa	Toyota JZX90 [ broken anchor ]		22	1		1		1	25
25	Daychapon Toyingcharoen  [ th ]	Nissan Z33	1		8			11		20
26	Yoshinori Koguchi	Toyota ZN6	15	1		1				17
27	Ken Nomura	Nissan ER34		6		9	1			16
	Kazumi Takahashi	Toyota JZX100				16	0			16
	Kuniaki Takahashi	Toyota GRX130	14	1	1					16
30	Takahiro Ueno	Toyota JZZ30			14					14
31	Tetsuro Nakata	Toyota JZX100		1		1	9	1		12
	Koji Yamaguchi	Nissan S14			7					12
33	Kenji Kiguchi	Nissan C33					10	1		11
	Masayoshi Tokita	Toyota ZN6		9	1			1		11
35	Kenichi Nakamura	Toyota JZX110 [ broken anchor ]						10		10
36	Ryuji Miki	Mazda FD3S			6					6
37	Kazuya Taguchi	Nissan S15				1	1			2
	Jin Horino	Nissan RPS13		1		1				2
	Tadahiro Fukada	Toyota JZX100	1		1					2
40	Ikuo Saito	Toyota JZX100						1		1
	Shinji Sagisaka	Toyota SXE10					1			1
	Yuji Saito	Nissan S15				1				1
	Shion Kono	Nissan RPS13	1							1

References

1. "2016 Schedule". d1gp.co.jp. Archived from the original on 19 March 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
2. "2016 Event Schedule". d1sl.jp. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
3. "Professional Drifting Has Its First Known Fatality". blackflag.jalopnik.com. 5 December 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
4. "Round 1 Report". d1gp.co.jp. March 27, 2016. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
5. "Round 2 Report". d1gp.co.jp. April 24, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
6. "Round 3 Report". d1gp.co.jp. June 25, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
7. "Round 4 Report". d1gp.co.jp. June 26, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
8. "Round 5 Report". d1gp.co.jp. August 6, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
9. "Round 6 Report". d1gp.co.jp. August 7, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2016.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)