# 2022 D1 Grand Prix series

2022 Gran Turismo D1 Grand Prix series is the 22nd season of D1 Grand Prix started from April 24 on Fuji Speedway and ended on November 6 on Ebisu Circuit.
Naoki Nakamura entered the season as the Defending Champion.
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. 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.

## Schedule

| Round | Venue | Date | Winner | Winner | Report |
| Round | Venue | Date | Single-Run | Follow-up | Report |
| 1 | Fuji Speedway, Shizuoka Prefecture | April 23 | Hideyuki Fujino | Masato Kawabata | |
| 1 | Fuji Speedway, Shizuoka Prefecture | April 24 | Hideyuki Fujino | Masato Kawabata | |
| 2 | Okuibuki Motorpark, Shiga Prefecture | June 11 | Kojiro Mekuwa | Naoki Nakamura | |
| 3 | Okuibuki Motorpark, Shiga Prefecture | June 12 | Naoki Nakamura | Naoki Nakamura | |
| 4 | Ebisu Circuit (West Course), Fukushima Prefecture | August 20 | Masashi Yokoi | Kojiro Mekuwa | |
| 5 | Ebisu Circuit (West Course), Fukushima Prefecture | August 21 | Hokuto Matsuyama | Hokuto Matsuyama | |
| 6 | Autopolis, Ōita Prefecture | October 22 | Koudai Sobagiri | Masashi Yokoi | |
| 7 | Autopolis, Ōita Prefecture | October 23 | Koudai Sobagiri | Masato Kawabata | |
| 8 | Ebisu Circuit (Bank Course), Fukushima Prefecture | November 12 | Daigo Saito | Masao Suenaga | |
| 9 | Ebisu Circuit (Bank Course), Fukushima Prefecture | November 13 | Koudai Sobagiri | Masao Suenaga | |

### Changes

* 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.

## Drivers and Teams

Entry list as of round 8 and 9
| Team | No. | Driver | Machine | Tires | Round |
| TMAR x TEAM 紫 | 99 | Naoki Nakamura | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Valino | 1 |
| TMAR x TEAM 紫 | 99 | Naoki Nakamura | Nissan Silvia (S13) | Valino | 2-9 |
| TEAM 紫 TOPTUL x VALINO TIRES | 98 | Hiroki Vito | Nissan Silvia (S13) | Valino | All |
| DMAX RACING TEAM | 70 | Masashi Yokoi | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Nankang | All |
| DMAX RACING TEAM | 46 | Masao Suenaga | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Nankang | All |
| Team ORANGE | 57 | Kanta Yanaguida | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Yokohama | 4-5 |
| TMAR | 87 | Daigo Saito | Toyota GR Supra | Yokohama | 2-9 |
| TMAR | 77 | Hokuto Matsuyama | Toyota GR Supra | Toyo Tires | 2-9 |
| Freem TEAM G-meister | 16 | Koji Yamaguchi | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Valino | All |
| Freem TEAM G-meister | 79 | Kojiro Mekuwa | Nissan 180SX (RPS13) | Valino | All |
| TEAM RE雨宮 K & N | 7 | Yukio Matsui | Mazda RX-7 (FD3S) | Toyo Tires | All |
| TEAM TOYO TIRES DRIFT | 66 | Hideyuki Fujino | Toyota GR86 | Toyo Tires | All |
| TEAM TOYO TIRES DRIFT | 88 | Masato Kawabata | Toyota GR86 | Toyo Tires | All |
| VITOUR RACING SEIMI STYLE DRIFT | 2 | Seimi Tanaka | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Vitour | All |
| TMAR x TEAM VERTEX | 78 | Takahiro Ueno | Lexus RC | Yokohama | All |
| TEAM MORI | 52 | Yusuke Kitaoka | Toyota Mark II (JZX100) | Vitour | All |
| Yokohama TOYOPET X 俺だっ!レーシング | 90 | Tsuyoshi Tezuka | Toyota GR Supra | Yokohama | 8-9 |
| SHIBATA RACING TEAM SHIBATIRE | 31 | Koudai Sobagiri | Infiniti Q60 | Shibatire | All |
| SHIBATA RACING TEAM SHIBATIRE | 84 | Masakazu Hasi | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Shibatire | All |
| VALINO | 15 | Katsuhiro Ueo | Nissan 180SX (RPS13) | Valino | All |
| Team CM Feeling. | 23 | Mitsuru Murakami | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Toyo Tires | 1-5 |
| Team CM Feeling. | 23 | Mitsuru Murakami | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Shibatire | 6-7 |
| RS WATANABE SPEED MASTER BUY NOW JAPAN | 43 | Yoshifumi Tadokoro | Toyota AE86 | Habilead | All |
| RS WATANABE SPEED MASTER BUY NOW JAPAN | 51 | Teruyoshi Iwai | Mazda RX-7 (FC3S) | Federal | All |
| OKUTONE FP IWANACENTER | 27 | Takeshi Mogi | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Shibatire | All |
| VITOUR Racing GP SPORTS | 56 | Takahiro Mori | Nissan 180SX (RPS13) | Vitour | All |
| DSL.com | 33 | Shigehisa Sasayama | Toyota Chaser (JZX100) | Valino | 8-9 |
| SPAN Racing | 9 | Wataru Yamamoto | Toyota GR Supra | Shibatire | 4-5 |
| TEAM TNR | 30 | Tetsuro Nakata | Toyota Mark II (JZX100) | Tri-Ace | 1,8-9 |
| Mercury 車楽人 VALINO | 38 | Sayaka Shimoda | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Valino | 1-3,6-7 |
| OS GIKEN SUNOCO | 48 | Tomoyuki Kitashiba | Toyota GT86 (ZN6) | Shibatire | 1 |
| Team miyaseimitsu | 55 | Hisashi Saito | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Vitour | 1 |
| Team BOOSTAR VALINO | 69 | Ryusei Akiba | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Valino | All |
| HIRANO TIRE Auto Garage KATAOKA | 93 | Kazuyuki Masuda | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Goodride | 1-5 |
| CAR GUY Racing | 97 | Shinichiro Saito | Toyota GR Supra | Goodride | 1-3,8--9 |
| BC Racing | 91 | Tai Xiao-Hsang | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Toyo Tires | 2-3 |

### Changes

* 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.
* 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 | Okuibuki | Ebisu | Ebisu | Autopolis | Autopolis | Ebisu | Ebisu | Total. |
| Rank. | Driver | RD.1 | RD.2 | RD.3 | RD.4 | RD.5 | RD.6 | RD.7 | RD.8 | RD.9 | Total. |
| 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

### 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