2014 D1 Grand Prix series

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.

2014 D1 Grand Prix series

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2013

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2015

Regulation changes

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

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

D1GP

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

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.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)