2018 D1 Grand Prix series

The 2018 D1 Grand Prix series is the eighteenth season for the D1 Grand Prix series. The season began on March 31 at Maishima Sports Island in Osaka, and ended on November 3 at the Odaiba Tokyo Street Course.^[1] This season also marked the commencement of the new D1 Lights series, with the preseason match on January 20, at Nikko Circuit, with the season ending on December 1 at the same venue.^[2]

2018 D1 Grand Prix series

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2017

Next

2019

Teams and drivers

Tire	Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Round(s)
Dunlop	Pacific Racing Team	Nissan ER34	3	Ken Nomura	1-8
	Pacific Racing Team	Nissan S14	14	Tomohiro Murayama [jp]	1-8
	Hirano Tire	Toyota JZX100	22	Kenji Kiguchi	1-2, 5-7
	広島トヨタ team DROO-P	Toyota ZN6	33	Kazuki Hayashi	1-8
	Tanabe SSR Team	Toyota JZX100	38	Tadahiro Fukada [jp]	1-3
	Fat Five Racing	Toyota JZX100	45	Shingo Hatanaka	1-8
	Silky House OTG	Toyota ZN6	60	Youichi Imamura	1-2
	広島トヨタ team DROO-P	Toyota AE85	99	Kazuya Matsukawa	1-8
Goodride	adidas a-unit G-meister	Nissan S15	16	Koji Yamaguchi	1-8
	GARAGE わいず	Nissan PS13	17	Teruaki Shimoda	3
	北九州 MSR	Nissan S15	31	Masaru Fuchigami	3, 5-7
	MMM Chroma Racing	Ferrari 550	42	Kunihiko Teramachi	-
	Nichiei Racing	Nissan S15	61	Feng Jen-Chih	1-2
	Moty's West Auto	Toyota JZX100	73	Ikuo Saito	1-3, 5
	Fat Five Racing	Chevrolet C6	87	Daigo Saito	1-2, 5
	TCP Magic	Mazda FD3S	88	Manabu Fujinaka	1-2
Goodyear	AST	Toyota ZN6	28	Masayoshi Tokita	1-8
	Sunoco	Lexus GSE20	48	Tomoyuki Kitashiba	1-3, 5
	Origin Labo.	Nissan RPS13	81	Kazuya Bai	1-8
	Team Kunny'z	Toyota GRX130	92	Kuniaki Takahashi	4-7
Nankang	かいとりちゃん オルビスレーシング	Nissan S15	46	Yoshitatsu Kaneda	6-7
	D-MAX	Nissan S15	70	Masashi Yokoi	1-8
	D-MAX	Nissan S15	75	Akira Hirajima	1-2
Toyo	Seimi Style Drift	Nissan S15	2	Seimi Tanaka	5-8
	Dixcel	Nissan S15	6	Akinori Utsumi [jp]	1-8
	Team RE雨宮 K&N	Mazda FD3S	7	Yukio Matsui [jp]	1-8
	Fun Style Racing	Toyota AE86	19	Noboru Morita	6-7
	Samurai Kanto	Mazda FC3S	21	Takahiro Imamura	4-7
	Team C.M.Feeling	Nissan S15	23	Mitsuru Murakami	1-3
	Do-Luck	Toyota ZN6	32	Daychapon Toyingcharoen [th]	1-8
	Glion Trust Racing	Nissan R35	35	Masato Kawabata	1-8
	TMS Racing Team	Toyota JZX100	36	Kazumi Takahashi	1-8
	Glion Trust Racing	Nissan R35	39	Masao Suenaga	1-8
	Used Parts Tadokoro	Toyota AE86	43	Yoshifumi Tadokoro	1-7
	Wisteria	Nissan RPS13	66	Hideyuki Fujino	1-8
	Team Julius	Nissan RPS13	84	Charles Ng	1-8
TRI-ACE	Team Mori パーツオフ	Toyota JZX100	30	Tetsuro Nakada	1-8
	Team Mori パーツオフ	Toyota JZX100	52	Yusuke Kitaoka	1-8
Zestino	Yuke's Team Orange	Nissan S15	4	Masanori Kohashi	1-8
	Navigate KRC	Nissan S14	5	Takatoshi Imamaeda	1-2
	K'SPEC SunRISE Racing	Honda AP1	8	Tetsuya Hibino	1-7
	Yuke's Team Orange	Nissan S15	9	Naoto Suenaga	1-8
	Team ZSS Racing	Nissan S15	15	Katsuhiro Ueo	1-8
	R Magic H.D.O D1 Racing	Mazda NA6CE	77	Teruyoshi Iwai	1-7
	Team Vertex Digicam	Toyota JZZ30	78	Takahiro Ueno	1-8
N/A	Origin Labo. Sunoco	Nissan S14	12	Yoshikazu Kawakami	1-2

Schedule

Odaiba

Tsukuba

Maishima

Ebisu

Tokachi

Autopolis

2018 D1 Grand Prix race locations

Round	Venue	Date	Winner	Report
1	Maishima Sports Island, Osaka Prefecture	March 31	Shingo Hatanaka	Report
2		April 1	Hideyuki Fujino	Report
3	Autopolis, Ōita Prefecture	April 14–15	Masashi Yokoi	Report
4	Tokachi International Speedway, Hokkaido Prefecture	June 9–10	Masashi Yokoi	Report
5	Tsukuba Circuit, Ibaraki Prefecture	July 21–22	Yukio Matsui	Report
6	Ebisu Circuit, Fukushima Prefecture	August 25	Masanori Kohashi	Report
7		August 26	Masashi Yokoi	Report
8	Odaiba, Tokyo Metropolis	November 3	Akinori Utsumi	Report

Drivers' rankings

D1GP

Pos.	Driver[3]	Car	Rd.1	Rd.2	Rd.3	Rd.4	Rd.5	Rd.6	Rd.7	Rd.8	Total
1	Masashi Yokoi	Nissan S15	20	9	30	30	DSQ	25	30	22	166
2	Masato Kawabata	Nissan R35	25	12	22	22	17	17	20	11	134
3	Naoto Suenaga	Nissan S15	11	16	25	25	22	DSQ	7	12	118
4	Masao Suenaga	Nissan R35		22	20	12	1	16	15	25	111
	Yusuke Kitaoka	Toyota JZX100[broken anchor]	22	25	1	1	7	20	16	20	111
6	Hideyuki Fujino	Nissan RPS13	17	30	17	11	20	9	DSQ	6	110
7	Yukio Matsui	Mazda FD3S	6	17	1	1	30	12	22	16	104
8	Shingo Hatanaka	Toyota JZX100	30	11	16	17	1	1	11	1	87
9	Akinori Utsumi	Nissan S15	7		12			11	17	30	77
10	Katsuhiro Ueo	Nissan S15	16	10	15	6	16	1		10	74
11	Daychapon Toyingcharoen [th]	Toyota ZN6	15	1		10	25	1	9	8	69
12	Takahiro Ueno	Toyota JZZ30		1	14	20	9	10	1	9	64
13	Masanori Kohashi	Nissan S15		DSQ	1	9	1	30	8	14	63
14	Charles Ng	Nissan RPS13	10	5	5		12	14	1	15	62
15	Seimi Tanaka	Nissan S15					14	8	14	17	53
16	Kazuya Bai	Nissan RPS13		20	11	1	11	1		1	45
17	Tetsuro Nakada	Toyota JZX100[broken anchor]		14	10	1	8			5	38
	Kazumi Takahashi	Toyota JZX100[broken anchor]	12	1		14			10	1	38
19	Koji Yamaguchi	Nissan S15				7	15	5	5	1	33
20	Masayoshi Tokita	Toyota ZN6		15	7	1		1	1	7	32
21	Tomohiro Murayama	Nissan S14			8	1	1	6	12	1	29
22	Kazuki Hayashi	Toyota ZN6			9	15				1	25
23	Kazuya Matsukawa	Toyota AE85	8		1	5	1	7	1	1	24
24	Ken Nomura	Nissan ER34	14	1			6		1	1	23
25	Tetsuya Hibino	Honda AP1	1		1	16		1	1		20
26	Kuniaki Takahashi	Toyota GRX130				1		15	1		17
27	Kenji Kiguchi	Toyota JZX100	5	1			10				16
28	Takatoshi Imamaeda	Nissan S14	9	6							15
29	Yoshifumi Tadokoro	Toyota AE86	1	1	1	8					11
30	Tomoyuki Kitashiba	Lexus GSE20		1	6		1				8
	Youichi Imamura	Toyota ZN6	1	7							8
32	Yoshitatsu Kaneda	Nissan S15							6		6
	Ikuo Saito	Toyota JZX100		1			5				6
34	Teruyoshi Iwai	Mazda NA6CE	1		1	1		1	1		5
35	Daigo Saito	Chevrolet C6	1				1				2
	Mitsuru Murakami	Nissan S15	1		1						2
37	Masaru Fuchigami	Nissan S15					1				1
	Akira Hirajima	Nissan S15	1								1
	Feng Jen Chih	Nissan S15	1								1