2014 D1 Grand Prix series

(Redirected from 2014 D1 Grand Prix season)

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
  1. 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
  1. ^ "2014 Event Schedule". d1gp.co.jp. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  2. ^ "2014 Event Schedule". d1sl.jp. Archived from the original on 28 March 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  3. ^ "D1GP going green in 2014". wreckedmagazine.com. 16 January 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  4. ^ "D1 Grand Prix Round 2 at Suzuka Results". wreckedmagazine.com. 29 May 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  5. ^ "Round 3 Report". d1gp.co.jp. 28 July 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  6. ^ "Round 4 Report". d1gp.co.jp. 25 August 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  7. ^ "Round 5 Report". d1gp.co.jp. 25 August 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  8. ^ "Round 6 Report". d1gp.co.jp. 19 October 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  9. ^ "TRUST Event Coverage from D1GP Rd.1 Fuji". greddy-gr9.blogspot.com. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
edit