2026 D1 Grand Prix series
The 2026 D1 Grand Prix series (known for sponsorship reason as 2026 Gran Turismo D1 Grand Prix series) is a planned professional drifting competition based in Japan which will be the twenty-sixth season of the D1 Grand Prix series. The competition is organized by Sunpros under Japanese Automobile Federation (JAF) Semi national competition format and recognize as Japan Drift Championship. The championship is planned to be contested over 10 rounds starting at Aichi Sky Expo on 24th of March 2026.
The season is celebrated as the twenty-fifth anniversary of D1 Grand Prix and D1 in general.
Hideyuki Fujino is the defending champion.[1]
Schedule
Provisional schedule was released following the final round of 2025 season. Aichi Sky Expo in Nagoya will host the opening two rounds of the season. The venue is located near Centrair which have previously held D1GP round back in 2013. In turns, Okuibuki Motorpark will not held any round for the first time since 2019. The rest of the calendar will be held at same weekend as previous year.[2]
| Round | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aichi Sky Expo, Aichi Prefecture | 9 May |
| 2 | 10 May | |
| 3 | Tsukuba Circuit, Ibaraki Prefecture | 27 June |
| 4 | 28 June | |
| 5 | Ebisu Circuit, Fukushima Prefecture | 26 September |
| 6 | 27 September | |
| 7 | Autopolis, Oita Prefecture | 24 October |
| 8 | 25 October | |
| 9 | TBA | TBA |
| 10 | TBA |
Teams and drivers
| Teams | Tires | Car | Engine | No | Drivers | Round | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHIBATA SEIMI with harukichiRacing | Shibatire | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 2 | Seimi Tanaka | TBC | [3] |
| URAS Racing | Dunlop | Nissan Skyline (R34) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 3 | Keiichi Nomura | TBC | [4] |
| RE Amemiya | Shibatire | Mazda RX-7 (FD3S) | Custom 4-rotor | 7 | Yukio Matsui | TBC | [3] |
| VEHIQL RACING×VALINO | Valino | Nissan 180SX (RPS13) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 8 | Takuya Inaoka | TBC | [5] |
| TBA | Valino | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 15 | Yuta Fujiwara | TBC | [6] |
| CarGuy Team G-Meister A | TBA | BMW 3-Series (E92) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 16 | Koji Yamaguchi | TBC | [7] |
| Toyota GR86 (ZN8) | 86 | Shigehisa Sasayama | TBC | ||||
| CarGuy Team G-Meister B | Toyota Supra (A80) | TBA | Yoshichika Tamagawa R | TBC | |||
| Repair Create×GR Garage Seifuto×Result Japan | Shibatire | Toyota GR86 (ZN8) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 23 | Mitsuru Murakami | TBC | [7] |
| Shibata Racing Team | Shibatire | Toyota GR86 (ZN8) | Nissan VR38 V6 | 31 | Koudai Sobagiri | TBC | [8] |
| CUSCO Racing | Yokohama | Toyota GR86 (ZN8) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 32 | Kuoji Tada | TBC | [9] |
| Toyota GR Yaris (GXPA16) | TBA | Yoshitatsu Kaneda | TBC | ||||
| 広島トヨタ team マッハ＆DRoo-P | Dunlop | Toyota GR86 (ZN8) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 33 | Junya Ishikawa | TBC | [10] |
| Toyota Sprinter Trueno (AE85) | Toyota 2GR V6 | 55 | Kazuya Matsukawa | TBC | |||
| Team miyaseimitsu | TBA | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Custom 4-rotor | 38 | Hisashi Saito | TBC | [7] |
| Gyeon Racing | TBA | Nissan 180SX (RPS13) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 47 | Hisato Yonai | TBC | [11] |
| Team BuzzBreak | Valino | Toyota Mark II (JZX100) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 50 | Ryo Ishii | TBC | [12] |
| Racing Service Watanabe | Antares | Mazda RX-7 (FC3S) | Mazda 20B 3-rotor | 51 | Teruyoshi Iwai | TBC | [7] |
| GP Sports | Drift Star | Nissan 180SX (RPS13) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 56 | Takahiro Mori | TBC | [13] |
| Team Toyo Tires Drift-1 | Toyo Tires | Toyota GR86 (ZN8) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 66 | Hideyuki Fujino | TBC | [14] |
| 88 | Masato Kawabata | TBC | |||||
| Team Toyo Tires Drift-2 | Toyota GR Corolla (GZEA14) | 77 | Hokuto Matsuyama | TBC | |||
| Toyota GR86 (ZN8) | 80 | Yuki Tano | TBC | ||||
| Team Toyo Tires Drift-3 | Toyota GT86 (ZN6) | Nissan VR38 V6 | 14 | Shiina Tamaki | TBC | ||
| Mind Control Racing | Shibatire | Nissan Silvia (S14) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 70 | Masashi Yokoi | TBC | [15] |
| Drift Star Racing | Drift Star | Toyota Chaser (JZX100) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 75 | Yumeto Hatanaka | TBC | [16] |
| Nissan Silvia (S13) | 76 | Ryu Nakamura | TBC | ||||
| Team Vertex | Shibatire | Lexus RC (XC10) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 78 | Takahiro Ueno | TBC | [3] |
| TBA | TBA | 89 | Lattapon Keawchin (Pop) | TBC | |||
| Team D-Max Racing | Valino | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 79 | Kojiro Mekuwa | TBC | [17] |
| 81 | Kenshiro Wada | TBC | |||||
| WEINS Toyota Kanagawa × 俺だっ！Racing | Valino | Toyota GR Supra (J29/DB) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 90 | Maopo Yamanaka | TBC | [7] |
| Team Valino Works | Valino | Toyota GR86 (ZN8) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | 99 | Naoki Nakamura | TBC | [18] |
| TBA | Sayaka Shimoda | TBC | |||||
| SIMsupportSpark×GarageHANGOUT | Shibatire | Nissan Silvia (S14) | Toyota 2JZ I6 | TBA | Kazutaka Yanagi R | TBC | [19] |
| TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | Daiki Nishiyama R | TBC |
R Eligible for Rookie of the year award
Changes
- Masashi Yokoi leave D-Max Racing Team at the end of the 2025 season after 13 years. He planned to compete with his own Mind Control Racing team and driving a Nissan Silvia S14 he entered World Time Attack Challenge Drift class with.[20][15]
- D-Max announced Kojiro Mekuwa transferred from G-Meister to replace Masashi Yokoi who left the team and changed tire supplier from Toyo Tires to Valino.[17]
- Shibata Racing Team downscale to one car with Koudai Sobagiri and not renewed Tetsuya Hibino's contract.[8][21]
- D1 Lights runner-up, Kazutaka Yanagi announced he will stepping up to D1GP driving the same team and car as in D1 Lights.[19]
- Super GT's Team Mach joined Droo-P as the team title sponsor alongside Hiroshima Toyota and entered as Hiroshima Toyota team Mach & Droo-P.[10]
- Sayaka Shimoda returns to the series after 2 year away. She joined Naoki Nakamura on Valino's works team and driving a Toyota GR86.[18]
- Ryu Nakamura joined Drift Star works team replacing Masakazu Doi.[16]
- 2023 D1 Lights champion, Hisato Yonai returns to the series after a year off. He is sponsored by car care product Gyeon and will drive the same Nissan 180SX he previously use in 2024.[11]
- Daiki Nishiyama will step up from D1 Lights.
- Cusco moved Yoshitatsu Kaneda and his Toyota GR Yaris from their Formula Drift Japan line-up to replace Atsuki Hoshi and his GR Corolla respectively. Kaneda will make his first D1GP appearance since 2018 with his GR Yaris being the first example to compete in the series.[9]
- Team G-Meister partner with CARGUY and entered two teams under A and B designation. G-Meister owner Koji Yamaguchi return to his team joined by Shigehisa Sasayama both after a year away from the series on the A team while Yoshichika Tamagawa graduate from D1 Lights drive his A80 Supra he previously use in Formula Drift Japan is on the B team.[7]
- Lattapon Keawchin (Pop) joined Takahiro Ueno in Team Vertex replacing his compatriot and senior Daychapon Toyingcharoen (Pond).
Results and standings
Results
| Round | Venue | Winner | Report | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tanso | Tsuiso | |||
| 1 | Aichi Sky Expo, Aichi Prefecture | |||
| 2 | ||||
| 3 | Tsukuba Circuit, Ibaraki Prefecture | |||
| 4 | ||||
| 5 | Ebisu Circuit, Fukushima Prefecture | |||
| 6 | ||||
| 7 | Autopolis, Oita Prefecture | |||
| 8 | ||||
| 9 | TBA | |||
| 10 | ||||
Driver's standings
Final classification within each round is determined by highest qualifying position; for example, of the two drivers eliminated in the Best Four, the driver who qualified higher is awarded 3rd position and the final place on the podium.
Point system
| Positions | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Point | 25 | 21 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Tanso point | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Tiebraker is determined by higher points in tanso standings.
| Pos | Driver | Aichi | Tsukuba | Ebisu | Autopolis | TBA | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rd.1 | Rd.2 | Rd.3 | Rd.4 | Rd.5 | Rd.6 | Rd.7 | Rd.8 | Rd.9 | Rd.10 | ||
Tanso standings
Point system
| Positions | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 20 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Pos | Driver | Aichi | Tsukuba | Ebisu | Autopolis | TBA | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rd.1 | Rd.2 | Rd.3 | Rd.4 | Rd.5 | Rd.6 | Rd.7 | Rd.8 | Rd.9 | Rd.10 | ||
Teams' standings
Points scored by the highest finishing driver in each round.
| Positions | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 26 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Pos | Team | Aichi | Tsukuba | Ebisu | Autopolis | TBA | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rd.1 | Rd.2 | Rd.3 | Rd.4 | Rd.5 | Rd.6 | Rd.7 | Rd.8 | Rd.9 | Rd.10 | ||
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