2024 D1 Grand Prix series

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.

Hideyuki Fujino is the defending champion in both Overall and Single run championship.

Schedule

Rule Changes

Tire Regulation

On 21st March, D1GP changes tire allocation rules.

Under the new regulation, tires allocation for each round is limited to :

• 2 tires set for Friday practice session. If a third tire set is used for practice session, a 10 points deduction will be applied to Solo Run score.
• 4 tires set + 1 tire set (for finals) for Saturday and Sunday competition. Tire set used in morning check-run had to be used in Solo Run.
• An extra 1 tire set will be added for Autopolis and Tsukuba round.

Scoring Regulation

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.

Drivers and Teams

Changes

• Hokuto Matsuyama is set to join the main Toyo Tires team but due to limit on drivers per team, He will be entering under Team Toyo Tires Drift +Leno Racing. He will be debuting a Toyota GR Corolla replacing his previous GR Supra.
• Naoki Nakamura announced he will be reusing his V8 powered S13 Silvia he previously use in 2022 season.
• Koudai Sobagiri will compete in a Toyota GR86 replacing the Infiniti Q60 he's been using since his debut in the series.
• D-Max will be using Toyo Tires for this season. A third tire manufacturer in 3 season.
• Masao Suenaga announced his retirement from pro-drifting competition at 2024 Tokyo Auto Salon. He will be replaced by 2022 D1 Lights champion Yuki Tano.
• Fat Five Racing entered 2 car for the first time since 2021.1
  • Daigo Saito is planned to replace his GR Supra with a Mercedes SLS AMG but due to the SLS not ready on time, he will compete in Supra he previously use in 2019 for the first two round. The SLS he use is a GT3 car previously used in Super Taikyu. Shibatire will remain as his tire supplier.
  • Tengku Djan Ley will make his D1GP debut joining Daigo Saito in Fat Five Racing and will be driving Toyota GR86. Djan Ley supposed to be entering in 2020 but unable to do so due to COVID-19 pandemic.
• Drift Star Racing entered 2 car for the first time as Yumeto Hatanaka join Hiroki Vito.
• RE Amemiya will use Shibatire and entered as "TEAM RE雨宮 マツモトキヨシ シバタイヤ". Ending a partnership with Toyo Tires.
• Two-time D1 Street Legal champion Yusuke Kitaoka is leaving Team Mori after 7 season together.He will be participate in D1 Lights instead.
• 2023 D1 Lights champion Hisato Yonai will stepping up to the series joining Takahiro Mori at GP Sports. He will participate in Nissan 180SX.
• 2021 Formula Drift Japan 2 champion Maopo Yamanaka will make his series debut for 俺だっ! レーシング×ウエインズトヨタ神奈川 (Read as Ore Da! Racing x Weins Toyota Kanagawa) replacing Genki Mogami. Evangelion Racing will no longer be team's sponsor.
• Sumika Kubokawa will be sponsored by fruit candy maker Hi-Chew and entering under ハイチュウ インターナショナル (Hi-Chew International).
• Ken Nomura's son, Keiichi Nomura is set to make his debut in the series, having successfully score enough points for GP license in previous D1 Lights season..He will continue to drive his R34 Skyline he use in D1 Lights with Dunlop as tire supplier. He will be the second son of a former driver to compete in D1GP after Yumeto Hatanaka make his debut in previous season.
• "Mad" Mike Whiddett is set to return to D1GP, having previously competed in Formula Drift Japan and will be driving a Mazda RX-3 Wagon powered by a 4 rotor.
• D1 Lights driver Toshiyuki Jinno planned to enter D1GP with his S15 Silvia he previously use in D1 Lights.
• Hayato Miyoshi stepped up to D1GP and will be driving a GR86 previously driven by Shigehisa Sasayama

Results

Standings

Points System

Overall Standings

References