The 2014 D1 Grand Prix series is the fourteenth season for the D1 Grand Prix series and the ninth for the D1 Street Legal spinoff series. The season began on March 29 at Fuji Speedway for the D1GP[1] and April 12 for D1SL at Bihoku Highland Circuit.[2] The series will conclude on October 19 with the D1 Champions' event at Odaiba Tokyo Street Course.
Regulation changes
[edit]Starting in the 2014 season, nitrous use was banned and cars are required to have catalytic converters. Also, exhaust pipes have to be pointed towards the ground.[3]
Schedule
[edit]| Round | Venue | Location | Date | Winner | Car | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1GP | D1SL | |||||
| 1 | Fuji Speedway | Shizuoka Prefecture | March 29–30 | Kazuya Matsukawa1 | Toyota AE85 | |
| 1 | Bihoku Highland Circuit | Hiroshima Prefecture | April 12–13 | Naoki Nakamura | Nissan PS13 | |
| 2 | Maze Sea Circuit | Niigata Prefecture | May 10–11 | Ono Toruno | Nissan C33 | |
| 2 | Suzuka Circuit | Mie Prefecture | May 24–25 | Kenji Takayama[4] | Lexus GRS191 | |
| 3 | Seto Inland Sea Circuit | Ehime Prefecture | June 7–8 | Naoki Nakamura | Nissan PS13 | |
| 4 | Ebisu Circuit | Fukushima Prefecture | July 12–13 | |||
| 3 | Autopolis | Ōita Prefecture | July 26–27 | Kuniaki Takahashi[5] | Toyota GRX130 | |
| 4 | Ebisu Circuit | Fukushima Prefecture | August 23 | Yukio Matsui[6] | Mazda FD3S | |
| 5 | August 24 | Masashi Yokoi[7] | Nissan S15 | |||
| 5 | Meihan Sportsland | Nara Prefecture | September 6–7 | |||
| 6 | Nikkō Circuit | Tochigi Prefecture | October 4–5 | |||
| 6 | Odaiba | Tokyo Prefecture | October 17–18 | Masao Suenaga[8] | Mazda FD3S | |
| D1 Champions' | Odaiba | Tokyo Prefecture | October 19 | Kuniaki Takahashi | Toyota GRX130 | |
- Event was cancelled due to weather[9]
Drivers' rankings
[edit]D1GP
[edit]| Position | Driver | Car | Rd.1 | Rd.2 | Rd.3 | Rd.4 | Rd.5 | Rd.6 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st |  Kuniaki Takahashi |
Toyota GRX130 | 13.5 | 27 | 35 | 21 | 30 | 12 | 138.5 |
| 2nd | Masao Suenaga |
Maxda FD3S | 8.5 | 30 | 8 | 27 | 20 | 35 | 128.5 |
| 3rd | Masashi Yokoi |
Nissan S15 | 10 | 14 | 30 | 3 | 35 | 15 | 107 |
| 4th | Tetsuya Hibino |
Toyota ZN6 | 2 | 21 | 14 | 30 | 19 | 20 | 106 |
| 5th | Yukio Matsui |
Mazda FD3S | 0 | 10 | 27 | 35 | 4 | 21 | 97 |
| 6th | Masato Kawabata |
Nissan R35 | 1.5 | 11 | 22 | 15 | 10 | 30 | 89.5 |
| 7th | Youichi Imamura |
Toyota ZN6 | 7 | 0 | 25 | 17 | 25 | 13 | 87 |
| 8th | Kenji Takayama |
Lexus GRS191 | 4 | 25 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 25 | 86 |
| 9th | Naoto Suenaga |
Nissan S15 | 11 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 78 |
| 10th | Kazuya Bai |
Nissan RPS13 | 10.5 | 13 | 21 | 2 | 12 | 17 | 75.5 |
| 11th | Tomohiro Murayama |
Nissan S14 | 0 | 25 | 19 | 12 | 15 | 1 | 72 |
| 12th | Tsuyoshi Tezuka |
Toyota JZX100 | 12.5 | 6 | 15 | 20 | 7 | 10 | 70.5 |
| 13th | Manabu Orido |
Toyota ZN6 | 6 | 22 | 2 | 25 | 14 | 0 | 69 |
| 14th | Seimi Tanaka |
Nissan S15 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 27 | 65 |
| 15th | Daigo Saito |
Lexus GSE20 | 7.5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 22 | 62.5 |
| 16th | Tatsuya Sakuma |
Nissan S15 | 2.5 | 19 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 60.5 |
| 17th | Akinori Utsumi |
Nissan S15 | 9.5 | 15 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 52.5 |
| Kazuya Matsukawa |
Toyota AE85 | 17.5 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 19 | 52.5 | |
| 19th | Tatsuya Kataoka |
Toyota JZA80 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 8 | 50 |
| 20th | Takahiro Ueno |
BMW E92 | 5 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 35 |
| 21st | Minowa Shinji |
Nissan S15 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 22 | 5 | 31 |
| 22nd | Kunihiko Teramachi |
Nissan S15 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 27 |
| 23rd | Nobushige Kumakubo |
Nissan S15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 25 |
| Yoshifumi Tadokoro |
Toyota AE86 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 11 | 25 | |
| 25th |  Emmanuel Amandio |
Toyota JZX100 | 5.5 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 24.5 |
| 26th | Masayoshi Tokita |
Toyota GRS184 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| 27th | Nobuteru Taniguchi |
Toyota ZN6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| 28th | Tsutomu Fujio |
Nissan ER34 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Teruyoshi Iwai |
Daihatsu A35 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 20 | |
| 30th | Yuji Tanaka |
Toyota JZA80 | 6.5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 17.5 |
| 31st | Akira Hirashima |
Nissan S15 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 16 |
| 32nd | Saito Ikuo |
Toyota JZX100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| 33rd | Shinji Sagisaka |
Toyota SXE10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 34th | Manabu Fujinaka |
Maxda FD3S | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 35th |  Robbie Nishida |
Nissan ECR33 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 36th |  Andy Gray |
Toyota JZX100 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
 Feng Chih-Jen |
Nissan S15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
| 38th | Atsushi Taniguchi |
Toyota JZX100 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.5 |
| 39th | Tomohiro Ooshima |
Toyota GZ20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 40th | Ajimoto Michie |
Nissan S14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 41st | Takamasa Kuroi |
Toyota JZX100 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 |
References
[edit]- ^ "2014 Event Schedule". d1gp.co.jp. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- ^ "2014 Event Schedule". d1sl.jp. Archived from the original on 28 March 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- ^ "D1GP going green in 2014". wreckedmagazine.com. 16 January 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ^ "D1 Grand Prix Round 2 at Suzuka Results". wreckedmagazine.com. 29 May 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- ^ "Round 3 Report". d1gp.co.jp. 28 July 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ "Round 4 Report". d1gp.co.jp. 25 August 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ "Round 5 Report". d1gp.co.jp. 25 August 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ "Round 6 Report". d1gp.co.jp. 19 October 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ "TRUST Event Coverage from D1GP Rd.1 Fuji". greddy-gr9.blogspot.com. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in Japanese)