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The D1 Grand Prix (Japanese: D1グランプリ in katakana, D1 guranpuri in romaji, abbreviated as D1GP and subtitled Professional Drift) is a production car drifting series from Japan. more...

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After several years of hosting amateur drifting contests, Option Magazine & Tokyo Auto Salon founder Daijiro Inada, and drifting legend Keiichi Tsuchiya hosted a professional level drifting contest in 1999 and 2000 to feed on the ever increasing skills of drifting drivers who were dominating drifting contests in various parts of Japan. In October 2000 Inada and Tsuchiya reformed the contest as a five round series. At the following year for the following round, it was the introduction of the two car tsuiou battle, a common tradition for touge races which would become popular with car enthusiasts.

Since the beginning, the series has spread from the United States to United Kingdom and Malaysia to New Zealand with an ever increasing fanbase all over the world. The series has since become a benchmark for all drifting series and is the most highly regarded of them all. The series also helped to turn not just its personnel, it also helped to turn many of its drivers into celebrities with appearances in TV shows and car magazines all over the world along with scale models and video game appearances for their cars. Also, it would be credited for the increase several-fold in tuning businesses specialising in drift set-ups.

History

The art of drifting could be traced to one of the early days of motorsport when pre-war Grand Prix and dirt track racing drivers such as Tazio Nuvolari also used an at-the-limit form of driving called the four-wheel drift.

The bias ply racing tires of the 1960s-1980s lent themselves to driving styles with a high slip angle. As professional racers in Japan drove this way, so did the street racers.

At the same time when street touge racing became an increasingly common occurrence, one of the first drifting contest was hosted by the Japanese Carboy magazine in 1986 and then in 1989, the year after the first introduction of the Video Option series, Daijiro Inada (稲田大二郎) decided on introducing a rival drifting event which was judged by Keiichi Tsuchiya known as the Ikaten. Through the years, the standards of drifting drivers has risen rapidly and drivers began to dominate the series. As a result, Inada decided on a new series to accommodate the more experienced and skilled drivers. In 2000 a new series called All Japan Professional Drift Championship (全日本プロドリフト選手権, Zen Nihon Puro Dorifuto Sensyuken) consisting of Keiichi Tsuchiya (土屋圭市) and Manabu Orido (織戸 学) as judges, and Manabu Suzuki (鈴木 学) as commentator. Other personnel consisted of Kitahara, as the tech inspector, and Takayasu Ozaku (more commonly known as Zaku the perverted camerman) as the series' long serving cameraman. Racing driver Eiji Yamada (known as Tarzan) made appearances in earlier rounds and Inada himself would usually make guest appearances in the opening ceremony and judging stand.

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