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2016 D1 Grand Prix Series
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 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. 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. Schedule Drivers' rankings D1GP References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:2016 D1 Grand Prix Season D1 Grand Prix seasons D1 Grand Prix ...
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D1 Grand Prix
The , abbreviated as D1GP and subtitled ''Professional Drift'', is a production car drifting (motorsport), drifting series from Japan. After several years of hosting amateur drifting contests, Daijiro Inada, founder of ''Option (car magazine), Option'' magazine and Tokyo Auto Salon, and drifting legend, Keiichi Tsuchiya hosted a professional level drifting contest in 1999 and 2000 to feed on the ever increasing skills of drifting drivers who were dominating drifting contests in various parts of Japan. In October 2000, they reformed the contest as a five-round series. In the following year for the following round, the introduction of the two car tsuiou battle, run in a single-elimination tournament format, a common tradition for tōge races which became popular with car enthusiasts. Since then, the series has spread from the United States to United Kingdom and Malaysia to New Zealand with an ever increasing fanbase all over the world. The series has become a benchmark for all drif ...
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Tetsuya Hibino
(born 10 April 1974, Aichi) is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Shibata Racing Team. Like many of the drivers in the D1 Grand Prix, he is the owner of his own tuning shop called SunRise, and works on his car himself. Before starting in D1GP, he was part of a team called, "Dropout Racing". He is quite a popular driver as he is one of the best drivers of the Toyota AE86 chassis in the D1GP today. He began competing in the D1GP in the sixth round in 2002, though he did not get any recognition until round 3 of 2004 when out of nowhere he defeated many well known names to take second place, and first exhibited his ''jumping drift'' which took the crowd and judges by storm. He has always drove the Toyota Corolla Levin since he began and the combination of its light weight and his aggressive driving style make him a formidable opponent. As he carried on in D1GP, he has another Levin which is a 3-door while his N.A. Cream-Beige ...
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Masashi Yokoi
Masashi Yokoi (横井 昌志, ''Yokoi Masashi'', 29 October 1982, Gifu) is a Japanese professional drifter, he currently competing in D1 Grand Prix and win the championship in 2018, 2019 and 2022 making him the second driver to win back-to-back championship. he is nicknamed as Zombie Yokoi or Galaxy Yokoi Career Yokoi gained D1 license after competing and winning in ''Ikaten'' event and started to competing in D1 Street Legal in 2007 with Nissan Silvia S15 he nicknamed Zombie after he still able to run his car despite crashing in to the wall during Solo run. he also debuted in D1 Grand Prix and advanced to the Top 16 for the first time in round 6 the following year. in 2009 he won his first D1 Street Legal win in final round, 3 years later still competing in D1SL he won three time during the season and winning the championship while racing for D-MAX in D1GP. From 2013 he began to compete full time in D1GP and won his first round the following year in round 5 at Ebisu Circuit d ...
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Nissan Silvia
The is the series of small sports cars produced by Nissan. Versions of the Silvia have been marketed as the 200SX or 240SX for export, with some export versions being sold under the Datsun brand. The name "Silvia" is derived from Sylvia, the name of the nymph who served Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt and chastity. The name also means "forest" in Latin. CSP311 In 1962, Albrecht Graf von Goertz has previously worked as a consultant for BMW, having created the BMW 507, and saw the potential of Japanese manufacturers. Yamaha had created the Technical Research Institute to develop their own sports car in 1959, and had built the YX30 sports car. As Yamaha had a working relationship with Nissan, work began on project A550X, but at some point the project fell apart and work was cancelled. Kazuo Kimura and Fumio Yoshida were both working on Project A550X and when the professional relationship between Nissan and Goertz ended in 1964, the work on the project contributed ...
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Hideyuki Fujino
is a Japanese professional drifting driver. He currently competes in the D1 Grand Prix series for Team Wisteria, and is the 2017 series champion. He is based in Fukaya is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 229,517 in 142,803 households in 60804 households and a population density of 1023 persons per km². The total area of the city is . It is famous for a .... Career Fujino started to compete in D1GP on its early day of competition but due to his results not being good enough he stopped competing in 2003 After the D1 Street Legal was launched in 2006 he start to compete in it instead, he claim his first D1SL win in opening round of the 2013 season. He's also compete in The Drift Musle and claimed the championship 3 times from 2014 to 2016 2015 mark his return to D1GP driving an SR20 powered 180SX he managed to finishes second on his return to the series after long time. he along with Masato Kawabata later launch the ...
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Nissan GT-R
The Nissan GT-R (Japanese: 日産・GT-R, ''Nissan GT-R''), is a high-performance sports car and grand tourer produced by Nissan, unveiled in 2007. It is the successor to the Skyline GT-R, a high performance variant of the Nissan Skyline. Although this car was the sixth-generation model to bear the GT-R name, the model is no longer part of the Nissan Skyline model line up since that name is now reserved for Nissan's luxury-sport vehicles. The GT-R is built on the exclusively-developed Nissan PM platform, which is an enhanced evolution of the Nissan FM platform used in the separate Nissan Skyline luxury car and the Nissan Z sports car. The GT-R abbreviation stands for ''Gran Turismo–Racing'', obtained from the Skyline GT-R''.'' In 2006, then-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn determined that the GT-R would be a global icon for the Nissan brand, as unlike its predecessors which were only sold in Japan, the GT-R would be sold all around the world. The production version of the GT-R was ...
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Masato Kawabata
is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Team TOYO TIRES DRIFT. Biography Kawabata first received his license at 18 and at that point he bought the Nissan 180SX. He practiced alone until he met late D1 driver Atsushi Kuroi who started to teach and advise Kawabata. At age 19, Kawabata entered a drift magazine sponsored contest and took first place. At 21, GP Sports started to sponsor Kawabata with a full line of aero parts and later he work for them moving from his hometown to Niigata where GP Sports based. Kawabata and first appeared in the D1 Grand Prix in round 4 of 2002. Kawabata was hired by Trust to replace Hideo Hiraoka and drove an S15 Silvia built by GP Sports, he took his first win at Fuji Speedway in and went on to finish 4th in the overall points. In 2007 he did even better however winning two rounds and the overall title by one point over Nobushige Kumakubo. In 2008 he change his car to 180SX in second roun ...
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Tochigi Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Tochigi Prefecture has a population of 1,943,886 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,408 Square kilometre, km2 (2,474 Square mile, sq mi). Tochigi Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the west, Saitama Prefecture to the south, and Ibaraki Prefecture to the southeast. Utsunomiya is the capital and largest city of Tochigi Prefecture, with other major cities including Oyama, Tochigi, Oyama, Tochigi, Tochigi, Tochigi, and Ashikaga, Tochigi, Ashikaga. Tochigi Prefecture is one of only eight landlocked prefectures and its mountainous northern region is a popular tourist region in Japan. The Nasu District, Tochigi, Nasu area is known for its onsens, local sake, and Skiing, ski resorts, the villa of the Imperial House of Japan, Imperial Family, and the station of the Shinkansen railway line. The city of Nikkō, Tochigi, Nikkō, with its ancient Shinto s ...
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Nikko Circuit
Nikko may refer to: Places * Nikkō, Tochigi, a Japanese city and tourist destination * Nikko Botanical Garden, operated by the University of Tokyo * Nikkō National Park, in Kantō, Japan Organizations, products, and services * ''Nikkō'' (train), a train service in Japan * Nikko Cordial, a Japanese brokerage firm * Nikko Citigroup, a Japanese financial services company * Nikko R/C, a toy-grade radio control manufacturer * Nikko Ceramics, a Japanese manufacturer of fine ceramics * Nikko Hotels, an international hotel chain * ''Nikkō'' (lens designation) (日光), an early brand used by Nikon Corporation Fictional characters * Nikko, the leader of the Winged Monkeys in the 1939 film ''The Wizard of Oz'' * Nikko, an old man in L. Frank Baum's 1907 novel and 1914 film '' The Last Egyptian'' * Nikko, a character in the comic-strip '' Minimum Security'' * Nikko Halloran, a character in the 1993 film '' RoboCop 3'' played by Remy Ryan Other uses * Nikko (name), incl ...
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Ehime Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Ehime Prefecture has a population of 1,342,011 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 5,676 km2 (2,191 sq mi). Ehime Prefecture borders Kagawa Prefecture to the northeast, Tokushima Prefecture to the east, and Kōchi Prefecture to the southeast. Matsuyama is the capital and largest city of Ehime Prefecture and the largest city on Shikoku, with other major cities including Imabari, Niihama, and Saijō. Notable past Ehime residents include three Nobel Prize winners: they are Kenzaburo Oe (1994 Nobel Prize in Literature), Shuji Nakamura (2014 Nobel Prize in Physics), and Syukuro Manabe (2021 Nobel Prize in Physics). History Until the Meiji Restoration, Ehime Prefecture was known as Iyo Province. Since before the Heian period, the area was dominated by fishermen and sailors who played an important role in defending Japan against pirates and Mongolian invasions. After the Battle of Sekigahara, the Tokugaw ...
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Seto Inland Sea Circuit
Seto may refer to: Places * Seto, Aichi, production place of Japanese pottery and venue of Expo 2005 *Seto, Ehime, facing the Seto Inland Sea *Seto, Okayama, adjacent to Okayama, in Okayama Prefecture *Seto Inland Sea of Japan *Setomaa (''Seto land''), region in Estonia and Russia People and fictional characters *Situ (surname), a Chinese surname (司徒), romanised from Cantonese as Seto or Szeto **Robert M. M. Seto (born 1936), American federal judge and law professor **Michael C. Seto (born 1967), Canadian psychologist and sex researcher ** Andy Seto (born 1969), Hong Kong comic artist **Carwai Seto (born 1973), Canadian swimmer * A Japanese surname (瀬戸) **Masato Seto (born 1953), Japanese photographer ** Asaka Seto (born 1976), Japanese actress **Rocky Seto (born 1976), American football coach ** Haruki Seto (born 1978), Japanese football player ** Saori Seto (born 1983), Japanese voice actress ** Taiki Seto (born 1983), Japanese Go player ** Kōji Seto (born 1988), Japa ...
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