2021 D1 Grand Prix series
# 2021 D1 Grand Prix series

The 2021 Gran Turismo D1 Grand Prix series is the twenty-first season of D1 Grand Prix started on April 24 at Okuibuki Motopark and ended on November 21 at Ebisu Circuit.

Masanori Kohashi is the defending champions.

## Teams and Drivers

| Team | No | Driver | Machine | Tires | Round |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| LINGLONG TIRE DRIFT Team ORANGE | 4 | Masanori Kohashi | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Linglong | All |
| LINGLONG TIRE DRIFT Team ORANGE | 9 | Naoto Suenaga | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Linglong | All |
| NANKANG TIRE DRIFT TEAM D-MAX | 70 | Masashi Yokoi | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Nankang | All |
| NANKANG TIRE DRIFT TEAM D-MAX | 46 | Masao Suenaga | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Nankang | All |
| Team TOYO TIRES DRIFT | 66 | Hideyuki Fujino | Toyota 86 (ZN6) | Toyo Tires | All |
| Team TOYO TIRES DRIFT | 90 | Masato Kawabata | Toyota GR Supra (A90) | Toyo Tires | All |
| MUGEN PLUS team ALIVE VALINO | 99 | Naoki Nakamura | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Valino | All |
| TEAM SAILUN TIRE | 2 | Seimi Tanaka | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Sailun | All |
| TEAM SAILUN TIRE | 6 | Akinori Utsumi | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Sailun | All |
| FAT FIVE RACING | 87 | Daigo Saito | Toyota GR Supra (A90) | Sailun | 1-2,7-10,5-6 |
| FAT FIVE RACING | 77 | Hokuto Matsuyama | Toyota GR Supra (A90) | Toyo Tires | All |
| Team RE雨宮 K&N | 7 | Yukio Matsui | Mazda RX-7 (FD3S) | Toyo Tires | All |
| TEAM VERTEX SAILUN TIRE | 78 | Takahiro Ueno | Lexus RC (GSC10) | Sailun | 1-7,9-10 |
| VALINO | 15 | Katsuhiro Ueo | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Valino | All |
| TEAM MORI | 52 | Yusuke Kitaoka | Toyota Mark II (JZX100) | Linglong | All |
| 横浜トヨペット SAILUN 俺だっ！ | 91 | Shingo Hatanaka | Toyota GR Supra (A90) | Sailun | All |
| TEAM SHIBATA SAILUN TIRE | 31 | Koudai Sobagiri | Infiniti Q60 (Q60) | Sailun | All |
| RS WATANABE SPEED MASTER BUY NOW JAPAN | 43 | Yoshifumi Tadokoro | Toyota Sprinter Trueno (AE86) | Toyo Tires | All |
| RS WATANABE SPEED MASTER BUY NOW JAPAN | 51 | Teruyoshi Iwai | Mazda RX-7 (FC3S) | Vitour | All |
| alpinestars LINGLONG G-MEISTER | 16 | Koji Yamaguchi | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Linglong | All |
| alpinestars LINGLONG G-MEISTER | 79 | Kojiro Mekuwa | Nissan 180SX (RPS13) | Linglong | All |
| TMS RACING TEAM SAILUN TIRE | 36 | Kazumi Takahashi | BMW 3 Series (E92) | Sailun | All |
| VITOUR TIRE & SPEED MASTER | 27 | Takeshi Mogi | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Vitour | All |
| Team M2 Racing | 33 | Shigehisa Sasayama | Toyota Chaser | Valino | All |
| Team M2 Racing | 25 | Masataka Kawashima | Toyota GR Supra (A90) | Toyo Tires | 1-2,7-10,5-6 |
| AUTO-TEC-RACING | 19 | Kentaro Kawai | Toyota Chaser | Sailun | All |
| MSR.kitakyushu | 17 | Masaru Fuchigami | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Sailun | All |
| Team CM Feeling | 23 | Mitsuru Murakami | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Toyo Tires | 1-2,7-10,5-6 |
| OS-GIKEN SUNOCO | 48 | Tomoyuki Kitashiba | Toyota 86 (ZN6) | Goodride | 9-10 |
| GP SPORTS | 56 | Takahiro Mori | Nissan 180SX (RPS13) | Vitour | All |
| Team BOOSTAR | 69 | Ryusei Akiba | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Valino | 7-8,5-6 |
| GARAGE わいず | 76 | Teruaki Shimoda | Nissan Silvia (S13) | Sailun | 9-10 |
| PEACE WORKS 男気 DRIFT Racing | 84 | Masakazu Hashi | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Valino | All |

Source : 2021 D1GP Drivers

## Schedule

| Round | Venue | Date | Winner | Winner |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Round | Venue | Date | Single Run | Follow-up |
| 1 | Okuibuki Motorpark, Shiga Prefecture | April 24 | Hokuto Matsuyama | Daigo Saito |
| 2 | Okuibuki Motorpark, Shiga Prefecture | April 25 | Hokuto Matsuyama | Masashi Yokoi |
| 3 | Tsukuba Circuit, Ibaraki Prefecture | June 26 | Naoki Nakamura | Akinori Utsumi |
| 4 | Tsukuba Circuit, Ibaraki Prefecture | June 27 | Yukio Matsui | Masanori Kohashi |
| 7 | Okuibuki Motorpark, Shiga Prefecture | October 2 | Koudai Sobagiri | Naoki Nakamura |
| 8 | Okuibuki Motorpark, Shiga Prefecture | October 3 | Naoki Nakamura | Naoki Nakamura |
| 9 | Autopolis, Oita Prefecture | October 30 | Naoki Nakamura | Yukio Matsui |
| 10 | Autopolis, Oita Prefecture | October 31 | Naoki Nakamura | Naoki Nakamura |
| 5 | Ebisu Circuit, Fukushima Prefecture | November 20 | Masashi Yokoi | Naoto Suenaga |
| 6 | Ebisu Circuit, Fukushima Prefecture | November 21 | Masashi Yokoi | Naoki Nakamura |

Note : Round 5 and 6 supposed to be held on August 21 and 22, but were postponed due to the rising COVID-19 cases in Japan. The event was moved to November 20 and 21 but the event was not renamed.

## Ranking

### Drivers' Ranking

| Pos | Driver | Rd.1 | Rd.2 | Rd.3 | Rd.4 | Rd.7 | Rd.8 | Rd.9 | Rd.10 | Rd.5 | Rd.6 | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Naoki Nakamura | 11 | 21 | 12 | 15 | 25 | 29 | 17 | 29 | 20 | 27 | 206 |
| 2 | Masashi Yokoi | 5 | 25 | 19 | 21 | 16 | 21 | 15 | 8 | 17 | 22 | 169 |
| 3 | Kazumi Takahashi | 16 | 18 | 14 | 20 | 11 | 13 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 125 |
| 4 | Masao Suenaga | 16 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 23 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 111 |
| 5 | Kojiro Mekuwa | 13 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 22 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 16 | 103 |
| 6 | Yukio Matsui | 0 | 6 | 21† | 17 | 0 | 9 | 25 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 97 |
| 7 | Masanori Kohashi | 0 | 0 | 10 | 25 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 22 | 94 |
| 8 | Hokuto Matsuyama | 22 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 21 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 91 |
| 9 | Seimi Tanaka | 3 | 14 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 16 | 87 |
| 10 | Naoto Suenaga | 10 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 25 | 0 | 75 |
| 11 | Hideyuki Fujino | 23 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 74 |
| 12 | Daigo Saito | 25 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 66 |
| 13 | Yusuke Kitaoka | 8 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 58 |
| 14 | Koudai Sobagiri | 4 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 53 |
| 15 | Akinori Utsumi | 6 | 5 | 21† | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 52 |
| 16 | Shingo Hatanaka | 7 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 49 |
| 17 | Takahiro Ueno | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 7 | 48 |
| 18 | Masato Kawabata | 0 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 48 |
| 19 | Mitsuru Murakami | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
| 20 | Katsuhiro Ueo | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 26 |
| 21 | Shigehisa Sasayama | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 20 |
| 22 | Yoshifumi Tadakoro | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 23 | Takeshi Mogi | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 24 | Teruyoshi Iwai | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 25 | Takahiro Mori | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 26 | Koji Yamagauchi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 27 | Ryusei Akiba | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 28 | Masakazu Hashi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 29 | Masaru Fuchigami | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 30 | Hisashi Saito | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

Note :

* Bold : Tsuiso (Dual-run) Winner
* Italic : Tanso (Single-run) WInner
* † - Round 3 at Tsubaka was abandoned before the final because of curfew. Both finalists were co-champions for championship purposes, and the points for both first and second place were combined and split, with each driver awarded 21 points each as co-champions. Akinori Utsumi was symbolically the winner based on higher seed.

### Tanso series Ranking

| Pos. | Driver | Rd.1 | Rd.2 | Rd.3 | Rd.4 | Rd.7 | Rd.8 | Rd.9 | Rd.10 | Rd.5 | Rd.6 | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Naoki Nakamura | 10 | 12 | 20 | 16 | 7 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 155 |
| 2 | Masashi Yokoi | 8 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 20 | 20 | 145 |
| 3 | Masao Suenaga | 16 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 118 |
| 4 | Kazumi Takahashi | 7 | 7 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 100 |
| 5 | Hokuto Matsuyama | 20 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 80 |
| 6 | Seimi Tanaka | 3 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 79 |
| 7 | Yukio Matsui | 0 | 10 | 7 | 20 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 77 |
| 8 | Yusuke Kitaoka | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 13 | 72 |
| 9 | Koudai Sobagiri | 4 | 0 | 12 | 14 | 20 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 70 |
| 10 | Naoto Suenaga | 6 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 65 |
| 11 | Kojiro Mekuwa | 14 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 63 |
| 12 | Hideyuki Fujino | 15 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 62 |
| 13 | Masanori Kohashi | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 14 | 55 |
| 14 | Masato Kawabata | 0 | 11 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 52 |
| 15 | Shingo Hatanaka | 12 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 51 |
| 16 | Daigo Saito | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 49 |
| 17 | Akinori Utsumi | 11 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 40 |
| 18 | Takahiro Ueno | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 8 | 34 |
| 19 | Shigehisa Sasayama | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 22 |
| 20 | Katsuhiro Ueo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 21 |
| 21 | Mitsuru Murakami | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 22 | Yoshifumi Tadokoro | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 23 | Takeshi Mogi | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 24 | Teruyoshi Iwai | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 25 | Takahiro Mori | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 26 | Koji Yamaguchi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 27 | Masukazi Hashi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 28 | Ryusei Akiba | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 29 | Masaru Fuchigami | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 30 | Hisashi Saito | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |

Note :

Bold : Tanso (Single-run) Winner

### Teams' Ranking

| Pos. | Team | Rd.1 | Rd.2 | Rd.3 | Rd.4 | Rd.7 | Rd.8 | Rd.9 | Rd.10 | Rd.5 | Rd.6 | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | MUGEN PLUS team ALIVE VALINO | 6 | 20 | 3 | 6 | 26 | 26 | 6 | 26 | 15 | 26 | 160 |
| 2 | NANKANG TIRE DRIFT TEAM D-MAX | 6 | 26 | 15 | 20 | 6 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 123 |
| 3 | LINGLONG TIRE DRIFT Team ORANGE | 6 | 3 | 6 | 26 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 20 | 114 |
| 4 | FAT FIVE RACING | 26 | 6 | | 3 | 10 | 6 | 20 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 92 |
| 5 | TMS RACING TEAM SAILUN TIRE | 10 | 15 | 6 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 3 | | 6 | 82 |
| 6 | alpinestars LINGLONG G-MEISTER | 6 | 10 | | 3 | 20 | 6 | | 3 | 20 | 10 | 78 |
| 7 | Team RE雨宮 K&N | | 3 | 20 | 6 | | 3 | 26 | | 6 | 3 | 67 |
| 8 | Team TOYO TIRES DRIFT | 20 | 6 | | 6 | 3 | 10 | 10 | | 3 | 6 | 64 |
| 9 | TEAM SAILUN TIRE | 3 | 6 | 20 | 10 | 3 | 3 | | 6 | 3 | 6 | 60 |
| 10 | TEAM VERTEX SAILUN TIRE | 3 | 3 | | 3 | 6 | | | 20 | | 3 | 38 |
| 11 | TEAM MORI | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 3 | 33 |
| 12 | 横浜トヨペット SAILUN 俺だっ | 3 | | 3 | 3 | | 3 | 6 | | 6 | 3 | 27 |
| 13 | TEAM SHIBATA SAILUN TIRE | 3 | | 10 | 3 | 3 | 3 | | 3 | | | 25 |
| 14 | VALINO | | 3 | | | | | 3 | 10 | 3 | | 19 |
| 15 | Team M2 Racing | | | | | 3 | | 3 | | 3 | 6 | 15 |
| 16 | Team C.M.Feeling | | | | | | 3 | 6 | 6 | | | 15 |
| 17 | RS WATANABE SPEED MASTER BUY NOW JAPAN | 3 | | 3 | | | | 3 | 3 | | | 12 |
| 18 | VITOUR TIRE SPEED MASTER | | | 3 | | | | | | | 3 | 6 |
| 19 | GP SPORTS | | | 3 | | | | | 3 | | | 6 |
| 20 | PEACE WORKS 男気DRIFT Racing | | | | | 3 | 3 | | | | | 6 |
| 21 | Team BOOSTAR | | | | | | | | | | 3 | 3 |
| 22 | msr kitakyushu | | | | | | | 3 | | | | 3 |
| 23 | マチュアーミヤセイミツS15 | | | | 3 | | | | | | | 3 |

Source : 2021 D1GP Series ranking

