2024 D1 Grand Prix Series is the 24th season of D1 Grand Prix drifting competition set to be started in May 10 at Okuibuki Motorpark and ended between November 10 at Odaiba. The series is run by Sunpros under Japanese Automobile Federation (JAF) official semi-national competition format. The competition will be held as JAF Japan Drift Championship as drifting category is added to Japan Championship by JAF. [1]
Hideyuki Fujino is the defending champion in both Overall and Single run championship. [2]
| Round | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Okuibuki Motorpark, Shiga Prefecture | May 11 |
| 2 | May 12 | |
| 3 |  Tsukuba Circuit, Ibaraki Prefecture | June 29 |
| 4 | June 30 | |
| 5 |  Ebisu Circuit, Fukushima Prefecture | September 28 |
| 6 | September 29 | |
| 7 |  Autopolis, Oita Prefecture | October 26 |
| 8 | October 27 | |
| 9 |  Odaiba, Tokyo Bay | November 9 |
| 10 | November 10 |
On 21st March, D1GP changes tire allocation rules. [4]
Under the new regulation, tires allocation for each round is limited to :
For this season the tires of the car had to be inside the clipping point as opposed to only body parts in previous season. This is to prevent teams and drivers fitting an overly extended parts on the car.
| Team | No | Driver | Machine | Tires | Round |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team Toyo Tires Drift | 66 |  Hideyuki Fujino | Toyota GR86 (ZN8) | Toyo Tires | 1-2 |
| 88 | Masato Kawabata | 1-2 | |||
| Team Toyo Tires Drift +Leno Racing | 77 | Hokuto Matsuyama | Toyota GR Corolla (E210) | 1-2 | |
| Valino x N-Style | 99 | Naoki Nakamura | Nissan Silvia (S13) | Valino | 1-2 |
| Shibata Racing Seimi Style Drift | 2 | Seimi Tanaka | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Shibatire | 1-2 |
| Shibata Racing Team | 31 | Koudai Sobagiri | Toyota GR86 (ZN8) | Shibatire | 1-2 |
| 18 | Tetsuya Hibino | 1-2 | |||
| Team D-Max Racing | 70 | Masashi Yokoi | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Toyo Tires | 1-2 |
| 80 | Yuki Tano | 1-2 | |||
| Drift Star Racing | 98 | Hiroki Vito | Nissan Onevia (S13) | Valino | 1-2 |
| 75 | Yumeto Hatanaka | Toyota Chaser (JZX100) | 1-2 | ||
| Vazestra | 15 | Katsuhiro Ueo | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Valino | 1-2 |
| Repair Create × Result Japan | 23 | Mitsuru Murakami | Toyota GR86 (ZN8) | Shibatire | 1-2 |
| TOP Team G-Meister | 79 | Kojiro Mekuwa | BMW 3-Series (E92) | Valino | 1-2 |
| 16 | Koji Yamaguchi | 1-2 | |||
| 広島トヨタ team DROO-P | 33 | Junya Ishikawa | Toyota GR86 (ZN8) | Dunlop | 1-2 |
| 55 | Kazuya Matsukawa | Toyota Sprinter (AE85) | 1-2 | ||
| Racing Service Watanabe | 51 | Teruyoshi Iwai | Mazda RX-7 (FC3S) | Antares | 1-2 |
| 43 | Yosifumi Tadokoro | Toyota Sprinter (AE86) | Habilead | 1-2 | |
| Fat Five Racing | 87 | Daigo Saito | Toyota Supra (J29/DB) | Shibatire | 1-2 |
| Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG | TBC | ||||
| 21 |  Tengku Djan Ley | Toyota GR86 (ZN8) | Toyo Tires | 1-2 | |
| TEAM RE雨宮 マツモトキヨシ シバタイヤ | 7 | Yukio Matsui | Mazda RX-7 (FD3S) | Shibatire | 1-2 |
| Team Vertex | 78 | Takahiro Ueno | Lexus RC (XC10) | Shibatire | 1-2 |
| 95 |  Daychapon Toyingcharoen (Pond) | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Toyo Tires | 1-2 | |
| GP Sports × Greentop | 56 | Takahiro Mori | Nissan 180SX (RPS13) | Valino | 1-2 |
| 47 | Hisato Yonai | 1-2 | |||
| Nexzter Drive to Drift | 63 | Konpicit Toyingcharoen (Pay) | Nissan 180SX (RPS13) | Shibatire | 1-2 |
| 89 | Lattapon Keawchin (Pop) | Toyota GR86 (ZN8) | 1-2 | ||
| 俺だっ! レーシング×ウエインズトヨタ神奈川 | 90 | Maopo Yamanaka | Toyota Supra (J29/DB) | Yokohama | 1-2 |
| ハイチュウ インターナショナル | 11 | Sumika Kubokawa | Nissan 180SX (RPS13) | Shibatire | 1-2 |
| 平野タイヤ ★ ハードコア ★ ロケットバニーレーシング | 93 | Hirotaka Kanou | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Dunlop | 1-2 |
| 27WORKS | 27 | Takeshi Mogi | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Shibatire | 1-2 |
| FORGED crew × 佐藤牧場 | 9 | Wataru Yamamoto | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Shibatire | TBC |
| Team Miyaseimitsu | 38 | Hisashi Saito | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Valino | TBC |
| Team RDS | 84 | Masakazu Hashi | Nissan Skyline (ER34) | Shibatire | 1-2 |
| Team Frontier Next | 86 | Shigehisa Sasayama | Toyota GR86 (ZN8) | Valino | 1-2 |
| URAS Racing | 3 | Keiichi Nomura | Nissan Skyline (R34) | Dunlop | 1-2 |
| Team MJ Style Valino | 10 | Hayato Miyoshi | Toyota GR86 (ZN8) | Valino | 1-2 |
| Toyo Tires × RedBull TCP Magic | 12 |  "Mad" Mike Whiddett | Mazda RX-3 (S102W) | Toyo Tires | 1-2 |
| Team Sasarin | 24 | Atsushi Hirayama | Toyota GT86 (ZN6) | Valino | TBC |
| トヨプラス Racing Team | 57 | Toshiyuki Jinno | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Valino | 1-2 |
| Round | Venue | Winner | Report | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solo Run | Battle | |||
| 1 | Okuibuki Motorpark | Naoki Nakamura | Naoki Nakamura | [26] |
| 2 | Hokuto Matsuyama | Tetsuya Hibino | [27] | |
| 3 | Tsukuba Circuit | Naoki Nakamura | Daigo Saito | [28] |
| 4 | Tetsuya Hibino | Daigo Saito | [29] | |
| 5 | Ebisu | |||
| 6 | ||||
| 7 | Autopolis | |||
| 8 | ||||
| 9 | Odaiba | |||
| 10 | ||||
| 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 |
| Rank | Driver | Okuibuki | Tsukuba | Ebisu | Autopolis | Odaiba | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RD.1 | RD.2 | RD.3 | RD.4 | RD.5 | RD.6 | RD.7 | RD.8 | RD.9 | RD.10 | |||
| 1 | Daigo Saito | 21 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 95 | ||||||
| 2 | Tetsuya Hibino | 16 | 25 | 10 | 25 | 76 | ||||||
| 3 | Naoki Nakamura | 29 | 6 | 22 | 16 | 73 | ||||||
| 4 | Masashi Yokoi | 18 | 13 | 12 | 14 | 57 | ||||||
| 5 | Yuki Tano | 21 | 16 | 6 | 43 | |||||||
| 6 | Mitsuru Murakami | 11 | 16 | 14 | 41 | |||||||
| 7 | Takahiro Ueno | 11 | 21 | 32 | ||||||||
| 8 | Seimi Tanaka | 2 | 16 | 12 | 30 | |||||||
| 9 | Hokuto Matsuyama | 12 | 12 | 5 | 29 | |||||||
| 10 | Masato Kawabata | 5 | 18 | 23 | ||||||||
| 11 | Hideyuki Fujino | 11 | 5 | 7 | 23 | |||||||
| 12 | Koudai Sobagiri | 4 | 15 | 3 | 22 | |||||||
| 13 | Takahiro Mori | 10 | 7 | 17 | ||||||||
| 14 | Kojiro Mekuwa | 13 | 3 | 16 | ||||||||
| 15 | Hiroki Vito | 4 | 11 | 15 | ||||||||
| 16 | Yukio Matsui | 7 | 7 | 14 | ||||||||
| 17 | Hirotaka Kano | 9 | 6 | 15 | ||||||||
| 18 | Hisato Yonai | 10 | 10 | |||||||||
| 19 | Hayato Miyoshi | 10 | 10 | |||||||||
| 20 | Mao Yamanaka | 5 | 1 | 4 | 10 | |||||||
| 21 | Takeshi Mogi | 8 | 1 | 9 | ||||||||
| 22 | Teruyoshi Iwai | 4 | 4 | |||||||||
| 23 | Yoshifumi Tadokoro | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
| 24 | Junya Ishikawa | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| 25 | Yumeto Hatanaka | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| 26 | Akinori Utsumi | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| 27 | Lattapon Keawchin (Pop) | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| 28 | Daychapon Toyingcharoen (pon) | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
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