Masashi Yokoi won his third championship with Masato Kawabata winning the Tanso (Solo Run) championship.
Regulation Changes
In an attempt to reduce grip from specialised tires, D1GP now mandates the UN/ECE R117-02 international standard for wet performance, noise and rolling resistance.[3] The grip reduction is implemented in order to decrease damaged cause by tires to the road surfaces and also to increase tire choices. The tires that will be used will undergo an inspection before being able to be use in competition. This rule change caused Linglong and Sailun to withdraw from the series because of an inability to provide tires with such specification.
Following dispute over a pit time limit in Autopolis, the time given to service a vehicle between rounds is limited to three minutes. An official will be observing the clock as the cars are being serviced.
Fuji Speedway return to the calendar after last held D1GP event in 2016.The competition will be held alongside Motor Fan Festa with the Qualifying and Top 16 held on Saturday and Top 8 onwards held the following day.
The Ebisu event will now be held on the West Course, which previously used in 2020. The former South Course has been converted to rally style gravel and not suitable for drifting.
Ebisu Circuit will also host the last two rounds of the season with a newly finished banked corner on its West Course, making it the third different layout in the Ebisu Circuit complex.
Okuibuki Motorpark will only hold two rounds as supposed to the four of the previous season.
Linglong Tire and Sailun Tires withdraw as tyre supplier for this season as they could not comply with the 2022 tyre regulation. As of results Team Orange who have Linglong as title sponsor compete full time in Formula Drift Japan instead, but later Kanta Yanaguida who acquired D1GP license by winning twice in D1 Lights the previous year will compete for the team with Yokohama tires, Akinori Utsumi would not compete in D1GP for the first time since 2001, Kazumi Takahashi will only compete in Formula Drift Japan following Sailun withdrawal while Seimi Tanaka and Yusuke Kitaoka changes tyre maker to Vitour.
Shibata Racing changes tyre maker to their own in-house built tire Shibatire working together with Rydanz with Masakazu Hashi joining the team as second driver.
Yokohama return as tyre supplier for Daigo Saito and Takahiro Ueno after last supplying tires in 2016 season.
Despite using Yokohama during Exhibition event in 2022 Tokyo Auto Salon Masashi Yokoi and DMAX remain using Nankang but no longer became team's title sponsor
Sayaka Shimoda joined the competition and became the first female driver to compete in D1GP since Michie Mimoto in 2015
Hiroki Vito graduate to D1GP after winning D1 Lights the previous year
Teruyoshi Iwai changes tyre supplier from Vitour to Federal.
Tetsura Nakata return to D1GP after missing the whole 2021 season.
Fat Five Racing became Trail Motor Apex Racing and at same time collaborating with Team Vertex and Naoki Nakamura but due to schedule clash with Formula Drift Japan they missed the first round.
Naoki Nakamura's S13 V8 Silvia had an engine issue during the opening round, and used his previous car, an S15 Silvia for that roundround.Masato Kawabata newly build GR86Team Toyo Tires will debut the new Toyota GR86 build by Wisteria and will be driven by Masato Kawabata and Hideyuki Fujino.
Katsuhiro Ueo replace S15 Silvia to 180SX which he use in Formula Drift Japan the previous year.
Tai Xiao-Hsang became the first non-Japanese driver to compete in series since Charles Ng and Daychapon Toyingcharoen in 2019
Yokohama TOYOPET X 俺だっ!レーシング will only compete in final two round of the season with Tsuyoshi Tezuka returning since last competing in 2017 and will use Yokohama tyres.[13]
Mitsuru Murakami misses the final two round of the season to focus on next year of the competition.
Ranking
Overall Drivers' Ranking
Rank.
Driver
Fuji
Okuibuki
Ebisu
Autopolis
Ebisu
Total.
RD.1
RD.2
RD.3
RD.4
RD.5
RD.6
RD.7
RD.8
RD.9
1
Masashi Yokoi
21
15
21
22
11
28
0
16
16*
150
2
Masato Kawabata
26
10
15
9
19
7
28
10
15
139
3
Naoki Nakamura
0
25
29
24
0†
11
16
16
16*
137
4
Masao Suenaga
16
19
16
11
0
0
10
25
18*
115
5
Yusuke Kitaoka
11
4
21
5
6
20
19
13
10
109
6
Hideyuki Fujino
22
5
1
12
12
10
8
21
6
107
7
Koudai Sobagiri
7
10
5
6
3
25
25
7
17
105
8
Hokuto Matsuyama
0
16
6
18
29
0
11
5
8
93
9
Kojiro Mekuwa
1
17
12
25
7
0
6
6
7
81
10
Daigo Saito
0
0
0
7
11
5
12
22
12
69
11
Hiroki Vito
12
7
0
0
0
13
4
4
16*
56
12
Katsuhiro Ueo
15
21
0
1
10
3
2
0
0
52
13
Seimi Tanaka
6
6
7
0
13
1
7
2
5
47
14
Ryusei Akiba
0
0
4
10
5
12
15
0
0
46
15
Yukio Matsui
0
11
2
0
2
17
5
0
0
37
16
Teruyoshi Iwai
11
0
0
13
4
2
0
0
2
32
17
Sayaka Shimoda
0
0
10
-
-
4
0
11
0
25
18
Kanta Yanaguida
-
-
-
4
16
-
-
-
-
20
19
Tsuyoshi Tezuka
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
10
3
13
20
Takahiro Mori
5
2
0
0
0
0
1
0
4
12
21
Takahiro Ueno
0
0
0
0
0
8
3
1
0
12
22
Mitsuru Murakami
0
3
3
0
0
6
0
-
-
12
13
Tetsuro Nakata
10
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
11
24
Kazuyuki Masuda
0
0
9
0
0
-
-
-
-
9
25
Takeshi Mogi
3
0
0
3
1
0
0
0
0
7
26
Shinichiro Saito
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
0
0
4
27
Kouji Yamaguchi
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
3
28
Wataru Yamamoto
-
-
0
2
0
-
-
-
-
2
29
Masakazu Hashi
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
30
Yoshifumi Tadokoro
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
Note:
†: Naoki Nakamura gets second place but according to the regulation due to his rear tire debeaded he did not awarded any point
*: Due to debris flying and injured one of the spectator the event were not continued and as per regulation the Top 4 were given the same point (excluding Tanso point) and the winner is given to the highest quailifier[14]
Solo Run Ranking
Rank.
Driver
RD.1
RD.2
RD.3
RD.4
RD.5
RD.6
RD.7
RD.8
RD.9
Total
1
Masato Kawabata
14
12
15
14
14
11
16
15
16
127
2
Sobagiri Kodai
8
15
7
11
4
20
20
12
20
117
3
Masashi Yokoi
12
16
12
20
16
16
0
16
8
116
4
Yusuke Kitaoka
16
5
16
8
8
15
14
14
12
108
5
Hideyuki Fujino
20
6
8
7
11
5
13
13
10
93
6
Kojiro Mekuwa
1
20
11
13
13
0
7
10
11
86
7
Hokuto Matsuyama
-
7
10
15
20
0
8
7
13
80
8
Naoki Nakamura
0
8
20
16
0
7
12
11
5
79
9
Daigo Saito
-
0
0
12
10
6
11
20
14
73
10
Seimi Tanaka
7
10
13
0
12
1
10
2
6
61
11
Masao Suenaga
11
14
5
6
0
0
5
3
15
59
12
Hiroki Vito
13
11
0
0
0
12
4
5
7
52
13
Ryusei Akiba
0
0
6
4
7
10
15
0
0
42
14
Yukio Matsui
0
13
2
0
3
14
6
0
0
38
15
Teruyoshi Iwai
10
0
0
10
6
2
0
0
2
30
16
Katsuhiro Ueo
15
3
0
1
5
3
2
0
0
29
17
Takahiro Ueno
0
0
0
0
0
13
3
1
0
17
18
Sayaka Shimoda
0
0
4
-
-
4
0
8
0
16
19
Mitsuru Murakami
0
4
3
0
0
8
0
-
-
15
20
Kazuyuki Masuda
0
0
14
-
-
-
-
-
-
14
21
Takahiro Mori
6
2
0
0
0
0
1
0
4
13
22
Tsuyoshi Tezuka
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
3
9
23
Takeshi Mogi
4
0
0
3
1
0
0
0
0
8
24
Yanagikuida Kanta
-
-
-
5
2
-
-
-
-
7
25
Shinichiro Saito
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
0
0
5
26
Koji Yamaguchi
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
0
4
27
Tetsuro Nakata
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
0
1
3
28
Yoshifumi Tadokoro
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
29
Wataru Yamamoto
-
-
-
2
0
-
-
-
-
2
10
Masakazu Hashi
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
Teams' Ranking
Rank.
team
RD.1
RD.2
RD.3
RD.4
RD.5
RD.6
RD.7
RD.8
RD.9
Total
1
D-MAX RACING TEAM
20
15
20
15
3
26
6
26
Ten
141
2
TEAM TOYO TIRES DRIFT
26
6
6
6
15
6
26
20
6
117
3
TMAR × TEAM紫
0
26
26
20
0
6
10
10
10
108
4
TMAR
-
10
3
10
26
3
6
15
6
79
5
TEAM MORI
3
3
15
3
3
15
15
6
6
69
6
SHIBATA RACING TEAM SHIBATIRE
3
3
3
3
3
20
20
3
6
64
7
Freem TEAM G-meister
3
6
6
26
3
0
3
3
3
53
8
VALINO
6
20
0
3
6
3
3
0
0
41
9
TEAM 紫 TOPTUL × VALINO TIRE
6
3
0
-
-
6
3
3
10
31
Ten
VITOUR RACING SEIMI STYLE DRIFT
3
3
3
0
6
3
3
3
3
27
11
TEAM RE 雨宮 K&N
0
6
3
0
3
10
3
0
0
25
12
Team BOOSTAR VALINO
0
0
3
6
3
6
6
0
0
24
13
RS WATANABE SPEED MASTER BUY NOW JAPAN
6
0
0
6
3
3
0
0
3
21
14
Mercury 車楽人 Valino
0
0
6
-
-
3
0
6
0
15
15
Team ORANGE
-
-
-
3
10
-
-
-
-
13
16
VITOUR Racing GP SPORTS
3
3
0
0
0
0
3
0
3
12
17
Yokohama Toyopet x 俺だっ！レーシング
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
3
9
18
TEAM TNR
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
9
19
TMAR × TEAM VERTEX
0
0
0
0
0
3
3
3
0
9
20
Team CM Feeling.
0
3
3
-
-
3
0
0
0
9
21
OKUTONE FP IWANA CENTER
3
0
0
3
3
0
0
0
0
9
22
SPAN Racing
-
-
-
3
0
-
-
-
-
3
23
HIRANO TIRE Auto Garage KATAOKA
0
0
3
0
-
-
-
-
-
3
24
CAR GUY Racing
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
0
0
3
Points System
Overall Standings
Positions
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
11th
12th
13th
14th
15th
16th
Drivers Point
25
21
18
16
13
12
11
10
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Team Point
26
20
15
10
6
6
6
6
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
Tanso Points
4
3
2
1
Tanso Standings
Point
20
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Note:
†: Naoki Nakamura gets second place but according to the regulation due to his rear tire debeaded he did not awarded any point
*: Due to debris flying and injured one of the spectator the event were not continued and as per regulation the Top 4 were given the same point (excluding Tanso point) and the winner is given to the highest quailifier
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