# 2019 D1 Grand Prix series

The 2019 D1 Grand Prix series is the nineteenth season for the D1 Grand Prix series. The season began on June 29 at Tsukuba Circuit, and ended on November 3 at Autopolis.

## Teams and drivers

| Tire | Team | Car | Engine/Turbo | No. | Drivers | Round(s) |
| 5FIVEX | Seimi Style Drift | Nissan S15 | Toyota 2JZ/GCG Garrett GTX3582RS | 2 | Seimi Tanaka | 1-6 |
| 5FIVEX | Dixcel D1 Racing | Nissan S15 | Toyota 2JZ/GCG Garrett GTX4088 | 5 | Akinori Utsumi [jp] | 1-6 |
| Dunlop | 激☆滑走団 IK BNJ | Nissan S14 | Nissan SR20/GCG Garrett GTX3582R | 14 | Tomohiro Murayama [jp] | 1-2 |
| Goodride | adidas a-unit G-meister | Nissan S15 | Toyota 2JZ/HKS T04Z | 16 | Koji Yamaguchi | 1-6 |
| Goodride | 北九州 MSR | Nissan S15 | Nissan SR20/GCG Garrett GTX3076R | 31 | Masaru Fuchigami | 1-2 |
| Goodride | スピードマスター BUY NOW JAPAN | Mazda FC3S | Mazda 20B/TBA | 51 | Teruyoshi Iwai | 1-2, 5-6 |
| Goodride | nichiei racing | Nissan S15 | TBA | 61 | Kunihiko Teramachi | 1-6 |
| Goodride | nichiei racing | Nissan ER34 | TBA | 62 | Junya Ishikawa | 1-6 |
| Goodyear | AST D1 project & 俺だRacing | Toyota ZN6 | Toyota 2JZ/Trust T88-34D | 8 | Masayoshi Tokita | 1-6 |
| Goodyear | Origin Labo. Racing | Nissan RPS13 | Nissan SR20/Garrett GT3582 | 81 | Kazuya Bai | 1-2 |
| Linglong | DRIFT Team ORANGE | Nissan S15 | Toyota 2JZ/GCG Garrett GTX35 | 4 | Masanori Kohashi | 1-6 |
| Linglong | DRIFT Team ORANGE | Nissan S15 | Toyota 2JZ/GCG Garrett GTX4088 | 9 | Naoto Suenaga | 1-6 |
| Nankang | D-MAX Racing Team | Nissan S15 | Toyota 2JZ/GCG Garrett GTX4088 | 70 | Masashi Yokoi | 1-6 |
| Nankang | D-MAX Racing Team | Nissan S15 | Toyota 2JZ/GCG Garrett GTX4088 | 84 | Charles Ng | 1-6 |
| Toyo | Team RE雨宮 K&N | Mazda FD3S | Mazda 20B/Trust T88-34D | 7 | Yukio Matsui [jp] | 1-6 |
| Toyo | Used Parts Tadokoro | Toyota AE86 | Toyota 2JZ/GCG Garrett 3584RS | 43 | Yoshifumi Tadokoro | 1-6 |
| Toyo | Team Toyo Tires Drift - 1 | Nissan RPS13 | Toyota 2JZ/Trust T88-34D | 66 | Hideyuki Fujino | 1-6 |
| Toyo | Team Toyo Tires Drift - 1 | Toyota A90 | Toyota 2JZ/BorgWarner | 90 | Masato Kawabata | 1-6 |
| Toyo | Team Toyo Tires Drift - 2 | Toyota ZN6 | Nissan VR38DETT/HKS GT1000+ | 95 | Daychapon Toyingcharoen [th] | 1-6 |
| Toyo/Rydanz | TMS Racing Team | Toyota JZX100 | Toyota 2JZ/GCG BorgWarner EFR9174 | 36 | Kazumi Takahashi | 1-6 |
| TRI-ACE | Team TNR T,C,L,S | Toyota JZX100 | Toyota 2JZ/GCG Garrett | 30 | Tetsuro Nakada | 1-2 |
| TRI-ACE | Moty's West Auto | Toyota JZX100 | Toyota 2JZ/Mitsubishi TF-08 SPL | 73 | Ikuo Saito | 1-2, 5-6 |
| Valino | Team ZSS Racing | Nissan S15 | Nissan VR38DETT/HKS GT1000 | 15 | Katsuhiro Ueo | 1-2 |
| Valino | K'SPEC SunRISE Racing | Nissan S14 | Toyota 2JZ/GCG Garrett GTX3582RS | 18 | Tetsuya Hibino | 1-6 |
| Valino | IGM Racing | Toyota JZX100 | Toyota 2JZ/HKS GTIII-4R | 45 | Shingo Hatanaka | 1-6 |
| Valino | Auto Garage Kataoka ESR | Nissan S15 | Toyota 2JZ/ BorgWarner S300 | 49 | Hiroyuki Matsuta | 1-2, 5-6 |
| Valino | Team Mori | Toyota JZX100 | Toyota 2JZ/GCG Garrett GTX3584RS | 52 | Yusuke Kitaoka | 1-6 |
| Valino | Team Vertex | Lexus GSC10 | TBA | 78 | Takahiro Ueno | 1-6 |
| Valino | スピードマスター BUY NOW JAPAN | Toyota AE86 | Nissan SR20/Trust T67-25G | 86 | Noboru Morita | 1-2, 5-6 |
| Valino | N-Style Alive FNATZ | Nissan S15 | Toyota 2JZ/TBA | 99 | Naoki Nakamura | 1-6 |
| Vitour | Hirano Tire | Nissan C33 | Toyota 2JZ/HKS T04Z | 22 | Kenji Kiguchi | 1-2, 5-6 |
| Zeknova | Fat Five Racing | Toyota A90 | Toyota 2JZ/HKS GTIII-4R | 87 | Daigo Saito | 1-6 |
| N/A | MMM Racing | Ferrari 550 | Nissan VR38DETT/GCG Garrett GTX4202 | 60 | Youichi Imamura | 1-2 |

## Schedule

| Round | Venue | Date | Winner | Report |
| 1 | Tsukuba Circuit, Ibaraki Prefecture | June 29 | Masashi Yokoi | Report |
| 2 | Tsukuba Circuit, Ibaraki Prefecture | June 30 | Masashi Yokoi | Report |
| 3 | Tokachi International Speedway, Hokkaido Prefecture | July 27 | Yukio Matsui | Report |
| 4 | Tokachi International Speedway, Hokkaido Prefecture | July 28 | Yukio Matsui | Report |
| 5 | Ebisu Circuit, Fukushima Prefecture | August 24 | Masanori Kohashi | Report |
| 6 | Ebisu Circuit, Fukushima Prefecture | August 25 | Masanori Kohashi | Report |
| 7 | Autopolis, Ōita Prefecture | November 2-3 | Naoki Nakamura | Report |

## Drivers' rankings
### D1GP

| Pos. | Driver | Rd.1 | Rd.2 | Rd.3 | Rd.4 | Rd.5 | Rd.6 | Rd.7 | Total |
| 1 | Masashi Yokoi | 29 | 27 | 23 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 97 |
| 2 | Yukio Matsui | 11 | 0 | 25 | 25 | 13 | 16 | 0 | 90 |
| 3 | Masanori Kohashi | 0 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 25 | 25 | 3 | 85 |
| 4 | Hideyuki Fujino | 0 | 0 | 18 | 21 | 17 | 22 | 11 | 89 |
| 5 | Naoto Suenaga | 10 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 21 | 21 | 87 |
| 6 | Tetsuya Hibino | 24 | 17 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 65 |
| 7 | Akinori Utsumi | 0 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 11 | 5 | 66 |
| 8 | Naoki Nakamura | 0 | 0 | 17 | 14 | 21 | 4 | 26 | 82 |
| 9 | Yusuke Kitaoka | 16 | 6 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 68 |
| 10 | Shingo Hatanaka | 19 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 60 |
| 11 | Seimi Tanaka | 1 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 43 |
| 12 | Masato Kawabata | 12 | 5 | 15 | DSQ | 2 | 6 | 10 | 50 |
| 13 | Daychapon Toyingcharoen [th] | 3 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 41 |
| 14 | Katsuhiro Ueo | 10 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 52 |
| 15 | Charles Kaki Ng | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 28 |
| 16 | Kazumi Takahashi | 13 | 2 | DSQ | DSQ | 0 | 10 | | 25 |
| 17 | Daigo Saito | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | | 24 |
| 18 | Teruyoshi Iwai | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 14 | | 21 |
| 19 | Takahiro Ueno | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 19 |
| 20 | Junya Ishikawa | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | | 10 |
| 21 | Koji Yamaguchi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | | 9 |
| 21 | Yoshifumi Tadokoro | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | | 9 |
| 23 | Tomohiro Murayama | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 5 |
| 24 | Kunihiko Teramachi | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 4 |
| 24 | Masaru Fuchigami | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 4 |
| 26 | Ikuo Saito | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | | 3 |
| 27 | Hiroyuki Matsuta | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | | 2 |
| 28 | Kenji Kiguchi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | | 1 |