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66-487: While the series was most commonly localized under the name Tokyo Xtreme Racer , when published by Crave Entertainment , other publishers have given certain installments entirely different names, such as Tokyo Highway Battle when published by Jaleco and THQ International; Import Tuner Challenge by Ubisoft ; and even Street Supremacy when released by Konami . There is also a sub-series named Kaido Battle which focuses on Touge racing and drifting . The series

132-413: A Driver Search . Once they have qualified, they receive a D1 License , which enables them to enter the qualifying rounds and the newly introduced national series, plus the exhibition events that they are invited to. In a championship event, usually entries are restricted to one hundred cars. Each car gets an allocation of three individual tansou ( solo run ) qualifying runs: only the best one counts. At

198-649: A Fuji Television car park. It also later ran as a championship round. In December 2004, the D1GP was held in the infield road circuit of the California Speedway in Fontana, California , as a non-championship US vs. Japan event, running alongside the JGTC race as part of the non-championship GT Live event. Manabu Orido resigned as a judge at the end of the season to become a driver. The other regular staff for

264-429: A Coming Soon page by Fillpoint and Throwback Entertainment . D1 Grand Prix The D1 Grand Prix ( D1グランプリ , D1 guranpuri ) , abbreviated as D1GP and subtitled Professional Drift , is a production car drifting series from Japan. After several years of hosting amateur drifting contests, Daijiro Inada, founder of Option magazine and Tokyo Auto Salon , and drifting legend, Keiichi Tsuchiya hosted

330-654: A Malaysia series ( D1MY ), though the series and drivers' search began earlier than its UK counterpart due to the difference in climate with its first round in March, compared with the UK series in May. The MY series tends to have the privilege of having Tsuchiya to judge the rounds, whereas the UK series only had Dorikin and Manabu Suzuki as judges in Round 2, on the weekend of the D1GP exhibition event. The New Zealand series are currently run as

396-450: A budget series, this meant that there is tighter restrictions on how a car can be modified. For example, the car must have a working car stereo system and must have the original engine which it was originally supplied with. Also there is no wide body extension and wings must be within the width of the car. The car must also retain many of its original features, especially dashboard, doors, etc. which sometimes can be replaced/removed/modified in

462-407: A crowd of three thousand. Drivers were judged individually and were treated as the first round of the 2001 season, shortly renamed as D1 Grand Prix . From round two onward, the series took a different turn. Unlike drift events which judged the cars individually each round then eliminating the rest, the series introduced the one-to-one round battle called the tsuiso ( twin run ) round which has been

528-572: A feeder series in Malaysia , as well as in New Zealand, both of which are currently only running a drivers' search event, which gives the drivers who do well in any of the national series a chance to compete at the final non-championship event held in Irwindale in addition to the final round which only the three UK series drivers was invited by Tsuchiya, who was impressed by their skills during

594-415: A maximum angle drift, but still closes off the inside line to prevent passing. The chasing car usually drifts with less angle, but very close to the lead car. However, the chasing car does not even have to keep up. In fact, in some cases, if a car that was left behind on the straight manages produces a beautiful drift, it could win that round. A spin, under-steer, or collision, results in a disqualification and

660-463: A partnership with Oxygen Interactive via Liquid Games, whereas Liquid Games would market its titles by Crave Entertainment for the European market. During Fillpoint ownership, the company launched its own label for its family friendly gaming, Red Wagon Games . On August 15, 2012, Fillpoint LLC filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy , with Crave ceasing operations. In 2023, the website was revived with

726-480: 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, they reformed the contest as a five-round series. In the following year for the following round, the introduction of the two car tsuiou battle, run in a single-elimination tournament format, a common tradition for tōge races which became popular with car enthusiasts. Since then,

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792-431: A qualifying school (such as Driver Search or a national drifting series). Considering the fact that the D1GP is a series geared towards production cars only, there are a number of different race regulations that the vehicle must undergo in order to be eligible to compete. They are: In the past, Drivers’ Search rules were more lenient to that of the championship rules until 2005, which the same rules apply to this day. As

858-642: 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

924-625: A sellout crowd of ten thousand, which broke the record for the venue and the series, this venue became the series' opening round in 2004. The California round saw the introduction of the English speaking commentator Toshi Hayama, who also dealt with the organisation of the non-Japanese events. That year also saw the car accessories store Autobacs as the title sponsor, and brought the first non-circuit event at Odaiba in Japan in January 2004 , held in

990-414: A set of three qualifying runs to make it into the best 16 tsuiso ( twin run ) round battles, which involves two cars drifting simultaneously. The Tansou groups would be given, Priority A, B and C. "A" indicates seeded drivers and "C" indicates as qualifiers. The Tansou rounds always starts with the series leader and then goes through to the last driver with the highest number, which usually indicates that he

1056-610: A tuning business called Option Motorsport. The club held a championship in 2002 called D1UK (the previous moniker), though not related to the magazine, for the 2004 season, the business was forced to drop the Option and D1 name for legal reasons. The difference between the Autoglym series, which was sponsored by the car care product manufacturer, and the D1GB is that the former had a separate championship for beginners called Clubmans which

1122-484: A zero score for the offending party in that battle. At the final round, the two finalists will be gathered in front of the judging stand, which they park up together and stand by their car to be formally addressed by the judges, the driver would return to the starting line to continue with their last sets of tsuiou rounds. Until 2004, there was a third place playoff for the losing semi finalists, which has been dropped. Should there be no sudden death rounds being called up,

1188-407: Is a qualifier. At the end of the drivers three rounds, only the best run counts and on each run, they are judged with an assistance of a DriftBox , which determines angle, keeping to the correct racing line and speed. That will be given a score up to a maximum of 100.0, should a driver score that point, he will be given a bonus score of 1 point which will be added to his score they accumulates during

1254-450: The 2005 season were D1 girls Kazumi Kondo (近藤和美) and Hatsuno Sugaya (菅谷はつ乃) who previously had careers as JGTC race queens . For the 2006 season, Hatsuno was replaced by Jyuri Tamashiro (玉城珠里) . As the series has always been Japanese dominated with few non-Japanese making it to the best 16, in the first round of the 2005 season, after narrowly beating Masato Kawabata who spun during their tsuiso round battle, Rhys Millen became

1320-504: The "Next 10 Years" Project in order to develop an appeal for D1 for the upcoming 10 years by creating a competition that could be enjoyed even more and make an environment which makes it easier for the teams and drivers to compete in the competition and at the same time creating new standards for safety and fairness and competition. Usually, drivers in Japan have to make it to the top of the championship table in one of four major national drifting series': Outside Japan, drivers have to enter

1386-552: 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. As street tōge racing became increasingly common, one of the first drifting contests 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

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1452-548: The 2005 Odaiba Allstar event. In October 2005, the D1GP ventured to Europe with an exhibition round at Silverstone , Northamptonshire , UK. This event provided an upset, as after putting on a good performance in the first run, the Irishman Darren McNamara advanced to the best 8 round after overtaking the series regular Hiroshi Fukuda on the first run. Like Rhys Millen in the first round, McNamara fell victim to Kazama after losing four to six then tying in

1518-626: The D1 Street Legal series, being replaced by the D1 Lights series from 2018 onwards. Although the items that are prohibited in D1GP also applies in D1SL, additional prohibited items in D1SL cars include: Other restrictions in the category are that: D1 Lights replaced D1 Street Legal from 2018 onwards, unlike D1 Street Legal the car now must be a competition only car and no longer street registered. This were implemented to help better bridge

1584-465: The D1 personnel, drivers and cars. This usually lasts up to an hour which the crowds disembark back to the crowd area ready for the tsuiou round. During a tsuiso round battle, one car follows another through the course, attempting to keep up with or even pass the car in front. It does not matter if the drifting line is wrong: it matters who has the most exciting drift. Normally, the leading car usually produces

1650-520: The D1GP category was moving away from its grassroots during the earlier days, and budgets and development costs were getting higher, the organisers introduced the D1 Street Legal ( D1ストリートリーガル ( D1 sutoriito riigaru in katakana ), as D1SL ) category at the Odaiba round in 2005 for road driven cars which were different from the main category as they are trailer driven between races. Being

1716-523: The D1GP category. In all the car has to prove its road-worthiness by its entrant providing a shaken certificate. Initially, the new series was treated to two exhibition rounds in 2005, and was given a full seven round the following year. Although the series is geared towards novice drifters, it also attracts D1GP star drivers including the Suenaga brothers, Masao and Naoto, many of its former D1GP regulars, and fan-favourites like Ken Nomura . In 2006,

1782-587: The Kaido Circuit and have the intention to conquer it. In order to protect the circuit from the Devils, they create another team: The Kingdom Twelve. At the beginning, their leader's identity is unknown. This time, the hero is also unknown and is able to beat everyone, even Imaizumi and Zoushigaya. By beating them, he is able to defeat the members of the Kingdom Twelve & the 13 Devils. By e-mails,

1848-587: The Kaido Circuit spirals into chaos. To fix it, in Kaido: Tōge no Densetsu , Zoushigaya becomes the Miracles Summit and now drives a black Subaru Impreza Prototype Rally Car and Kyoichi Imaizumi, Zao's Slasher, becomes the Absolute Emperor and drives a white Renault Clio V6 Phase 2. These drivers are now the fastest on the Kaido Circuit. Meanwhile, the 13 Devils from Tokyo led by Iwasaki come to

1914-475: The Kaido Circuit, but by doing so, he manipulated him, and lies to everyone saying that his team protects the Circuit from the Devils, while the Devils didn't know his real goal: to found the fastest Rally Team and Highway Team. The D1 Grand Prix drifting championship inspired the new series Racing Battle: C1 Grand Prix , released in 2005 and remembering the 1997 drift circuit based Shutokou Battle Gaiden and

1980-710: The Kingdom Twelve's leader's identity is known after he beats Timberslash: Hamagaki. After beating him and Iwasaki, the hero battles Koukami and beats him. And after these events, the truth is revealed: Hamagaki was still angry since he lost his title as the Emotional King. Thus, in Kaido Battle 2: Chain Reaction , he challenged every rival and eventually challenged Koukami again at Aso. But Koukami won again, making Hamagaki angrier than ever. Eventually, since Iwasaki became depressed, Hamagaki cajoled him to race into

2046-893: The Sega Saturn, Wangan Dead Heat , and a circuit/tune edition unique episode for the PlayStation, Kattobi Tune , which oriented the Shutokou Battle series through a new direction, leading to the Dreamcast version and its worldwide recognition and distribution. Kattobi Tune was compiled under the supervision of Rev Speed, a popular Japanese car tuning magazine and features seven licensed professional tuners, RE Amemiya , Spoon , Mine's , Trial, "RS Yamamoto", Garage Saurus and JUN Auto , appearing years later in Racing Battle: C1 Grand Prix and also in

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2112-494: The Tokyo Xtreme Racer banner by Crave Entertainment . The series, like the main Shutokou Battle games, includes licensed cars and authentic Japanese mountain roads as courses. In Conquest Mode, the player competes during the day in drift contests, earning more points for holding a drift longer or for a quick combination of drifts, but earns no points if the player bumps against the wall or a guard rail. Doing this,

2178-502: The UK exhibition event. McNamara, the only of the three drivers to qualify in the points-scoring final round and to enter with his own car, finished in the last 8 in both events, only to lose to Nomura in both through a sudden death match. As that was the only year to have a franchise in the UK, McNamara would compete in the US series. In 2007 , the former D1GP driver, Hisashi Kamimoto retired from driving to join as judge. The D1 Gals of 2006

2244-410: The best 8 by beating Gittin in a sudden death tsuiso battle, Hubinette made it to the semi-final when he defeated Takahiro Ueno , only to be beaten by Nobushige Kumakubo in his Subaru Impreza GDB . Kumakubo went on into the finals to be beaten by Yasuyuki Kazama , who won his third successive first round championship event. In 2006, the D1GP ventured into the highly lucrative Asian market by hosting

2310-840: The continuation of the "Shutokou Battle circuit + RPG " concept introduced in Kattobi Tune , a genre close to the Zero4 Champ series by Media Rings . The first and only episode has the tagline "C1 Grand Prix", which is a double reference to the D1 GP and the Route C1, the latter being the Inner Circular Route of the Shuto Expressway and the circuit for most episodes of the Shutokō Battle series. Genki

2376-444: The end of the day, the top twenty qualifiers join the ten seeded cars who are determined by the top ten on the D1GP championship tables. The seeded drivers are usually a red background on their number to identify them. On race day, after two sets of practice runs are done through, competitors will go through a starting ceremony which they will be introduced to the crowds and then a driver will be rounded up in group of fours and be given

2442-460: The finalists would return in front of the judging area with the losing drivers, who would return from the starting line; where the winner's name will be called up be the lead judge, which a large trophy and bottle of champagne will be presented to them by the D1 Gals. A cheque would usually be presented to the top 3 drivers, the winner's cheque is usually worth ¥1million or $ 5000 in US events. After

2508-559: The first non-Japanese driver to advance to the best 8 round. He lost to Yasuyuki Kazama after a sudden death tsuiso battle. That year saw the introduction of the D1 Street Legal category which was unveiled at the Odaiba round, for cars which are built to be driven on the road. The series' only guest commentator was the TV presenter, singer, Super GT driver and amateur drifter Hiromi Kozono (ヒロミ; real kanji name 小園 浩巳) who guest commentated at

2574-519: The first one to have their life bar depleted loses; however, the first racer to cross the finish line will win the race. Through the night, the player will face the "Tricksters", a type of mini-bosses in the course. After all the Tricksters have been beaten, the main boss of the course (called the "Slasher") will challenge the player through an in-game BBS system. After the Slasher has been beaten,

2640-450: The first round at Maze Circuit. Daisuke Saito became the first winner of D1 Lights, the first series champion was Junya Ishikawa who graduated to D1GP the following year, while Naoki Nakamura who won twice regained his D1GP license and also graduated to D1GP. In 2019 for the first time D1GP and D1 Lights were held in the same venue during same weekend at Autopolis, which was the final round for both series. The same would happen again twice in

2706-512: The first time D1GP will continue without Tsuchiya nor Inada Hisashi Kamimoto who was part of the judge is promoted to chief judge and assisted by Akira Iida , Shinichi Yamaji , Eiji Yamada and Ryusuke Kawasaki, the Tanso Champions is awarded for the driver with the best Solo run driver and Tanso Winner is awarded for the best qualifier for each round. In the same year Youichi Imamura winning his 4th and last title making him driver with

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2772-531: The following year, with the season opener and in Ebisu West. D1 Lights initially live streamed on D1GP Movie Channel but moved to Video Option's Youtube channel in 2023. On final two round of 2024 season, D1 Lights experimented with Top 24 tournament last seen in 2014 D1GP season and targeted to be use from 2025 and beyond. As of 2024, all D1 Lights champion had graduated to D1 Grand Prix with 2024 season had all previous Lights champion up to 2023 competed in

2838-415: The gap between D1 Grand Prix and it's feeder series. The safety of the series is also increased after a spotter was fatally struck by a wheel that came loose during a practice session in the final round of 2016 D1 Street Legal. This accident led to the round being completely cancelled and the D1 Street Legal not continuing in 2017. The series kicked off with a pre-season event at Nikko Circuit, followed by

2904-719: The influential Gran Turismo series by Polyphony Digital . Though the entire Shutokou Battle series has been referred to as the " Tokyo Xtreme Racer " series in the west, only a subset of games had an official " Tokyo Xtreme Racer " title attached. The games also received different names in different regions, adding to confusion. Kaidō Battle (街道バトル) is a spin-off series for the PlayStation 2 created by Genki. They are focused on Touge racing and heavily centered on drifting . The franchise currently has three games, with two of them being released in North America under

2970-409: The most D1GP title. 2014 saw the ban on nitrous oxide , a gas commonly seen to add power to engines in motorsport, causing teams to use larger turbochargers or displacement engines. Since 2018 D1GP has streamed all of its round and its feeder series D1 Lights from YouTube for free with Japanese and English language stream on their official channel D1GP MOVIE CHANNEL . In 2022 D1 Grand Prix started

3036-405: The name is announced, in some event, the driver would be given a toss-up by competitors, a common tradition in some sports and usually the spectators will be invited onto the track. Each D1 Licence is valid for an entire season. Drivers who finish in the top 16 of points will retain their licence for the next year. Drivers who finish below are relegated and must attempt to qualify for a licence at

3102-413: The new Emotional King, while Hamagaki becomes a Trickster. In Kaido Battle 2: Chain Reaction , Tatsu Zoushigaya arrives at the age of just 18. Like Koukami, he beats all Slashers and eventually Koukami himself in his Lancer Evolution 3 at Aso, Hamagaki in his Genki S2000 Turbo, as well as the secret rival Ground Zero Kazioka in his Skyline GT-R. But since he was defeated, Koukami moves away to Hokkaido and

3168-405: The organisers started a divisional series called D1SL Divisional Series which does not require a D1 License and is broken up in four regions: north, south, east, and west, with rounds that consist of 3 to 4 events in each region and a point scoring system that is the same as the other series'. The winner of the series at the end is awarded a D1 License. In 2017, the organisers announced the end of

3234-532: The other round. With a crowd attendance of five thousand, in the following year the D1GP ran its own national series in the UK. At the non-championship D1 USA vs Japan Allstar Exhibition at Irwindale Speedway in December 2005, the series had its first non-Japanese winner for both car and driver: Vaughn Gittin with his Ford Mustang GT . At the following season opener in March 2006 , Samuel Hübinette with his Dodge Viper SRT/10 took things further by making it into

3300-455: The player earns money to buy new cars and modifications. Daytime racing also features racing for sponsors, which includes a kind of racing challenge determined by the sponsor. Beating a sponsor challenge earns the player a sponsor. Sponsors give the player better parts and extra bonuses for winning drift contests. At night, the player can challenge rivals in the parking lot, and race them in a vein similar to Shutokō Battle / Tokyo Xtreme Racer :

3366-534: The player may advance to the next stage. The final boss in the last course is called the "Emotional King." The story unfolds in Kaido Battle when Hiroki Koukami challenges and defeat all Slashers, including Motoya Iwasaki, the Speed King from Shutokou Battle , until he challenges Hamagaki, the Kaido President & 1st Emotional King in his yellow Pantera GTS at Irohazaka. By doing so, Koukami becomes

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3432-547: 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 become a benchmark for all drifting series as its tsuisou format became widely adopted in drifting events throughout the world and is the most highly regarded of all series. The series helped to turn not just its personnel but also many of its drivers into celebrities with appearances in TV shows and car magazines all over

3498-570: The series which was not seen with D1 Street Legal. During the 2005 exhibition event at Silverstone, a domestic series was announced with a plan to run the UK round as part of the world series for the following year, though plans for a point scoring round at that location never materialised. The series took over where the Autoglym Drift Championship left off, which was formerly run by the OPT Drift Club, an offshoot of

3564-525: The series with Suzuki and Nomura as presenters, with the D1 Sisters making guest appearances. For the 2009 season, the US arm underwent a new management team to kickstart a new domestic series Tsuchiya, who was also on the executive board, stepped down when the organization went under new management. In December 2010, Keiichi Tsuchiya and Daijiro Inada both decided to resign from D1GP due to consistent irresponsible management. The following year saw

3630-521: The tech inspector, and Takayasu Ozaku (more commonly known as Zaku the perverted cameraman ) as the series' long serving cameraman. Racing driver Tarzan Yamada made appearances in earlier rounds and Inada himself would usually make guest appearances in the opening ceremony and judging stand. The first ever event was at Ebisu Circuit in Fukushima , Japan, in October 2000 with an entry of forty and

3696-411: The tradition for Tōge races and has since been adopted for drifting events all over the world. Aftermarket parts manufacturers BLITZ, HKS and A'PEXi soon began to get involved by sponsoring drivers entering the competition. In 2002 , the number of cars competing in the tsuiou rounds was reduced from ten to eight, and was reduced to 6 by round two, as the second tansou rounds increased to twelve. That

3762-445: The tsuiou round. At the end when all drivers are judged, the judges picks the sixteen drivers for the tsuiou round, the highest scoring driver will be paired up against the sixteenth highest scorer, the second highest will be paired against the fifteenth highest and so on. Between this and the following tsuiou round , there is a pit walk session at the paddock area for spectators, usually off-limits to them, where they can get close to

3828-416: The video game rights to Ultimate Fighting Championship . The company briefly held a European distribution deal with Square Europe in 2000. In November 2000, Crave announced that they would sign a European co-publishing and distribution deal with Ubi Soft . In 2005 the company and its parent company were acquired by Handleman who would later sell the publisher to Fillpoint in 2009. In 2006, it formed

3894-427: The world along with scale models and video game appearances for their cars. It was credited for the increase several-fold in tuning businesses specialising in drift set-ups. The art of drifting can be traced to the early days of motorsport when pre-war Grand Prix and dirt track racing drivers such as Tazio Nuvolari used an at-the-limit form of driving called the four-wheel drift. The bias ply racing tires of

3960-713: Was also developing a game related although not part of the Shotoku Battle series, The Fast and the Furious , based on the movie franchise of the same name . It was presented at E3 2003 and conceived as an open world game. The game was planned to be published by Vivendi Universal Games and release on PlayStation 2 in late 2003 and the Xbox in 2004. However, it was eventually cancelled. (YYYY/MM) (YYYY/MM) These are exclusive to Japan. date (YYYY/MM) Crave Entertainment Crave Entertainment (aka Crave Games )

4026-714: Was an American video game publisher founded in 1997 by Nima Taghavi. Its headquarters was in Newport Beach, California . It was acquired by Handleman Company in 2005 in a deal valued up to $ 95,000,000 but was then sold to Fillpoint LLC in early 2009 for only $ 8,100,000 due to Handleman's bankruptcy and pending liquidation. During its lifetime it published games for Dreamcast , Wii , Nintendo DS , Game Boy Advance , Nintendo 64 , GameCube , PlayStation , PlayStation 2 , PlayStation 3 , PSP , Xbox , and Xbox 360 . Crave mainly focused on budget titles, and imported games such as Tokyo Xtreme Racer series. Crave Entertainment

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4092-639: Was founded in 1997 by Nima Taghavi as a subsidiary of distributor, SVG Distributions. The company was headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, and Hamburg. In 1998 the company acquired Lobotomy Software , the creators of Death Tank and PowerSlave . That same year the company also acquired Big Rain , a studio formed by former Squaresoft veterans and founded its first internal studio, Craveyard Studios . In 1999 Crave signed an exclusive five year licensing deal for

4158-709: Was increased to sixteen by round four which stands to this day. The series remained domestic until 2003 when an exhibition round was hostedin Southern California at Irwindale Speedway , produced by American marketing company, Slipstream Global. That same year, Grassroots Motorsports also presented the D1 Grand Prix with the Editors' Choice Award. Slipstream Global would later create the Formula Drift Championship in 2004. With

4224-440: Was originally subtitled " Drift King ", after the trademark nickname of street racing and professional racing driver Keiichi Tsuchiya who is featured in the first Shuto Kousoku Trial episodes and endorsed the game with, then team manager, Masaki Bandoh of Bandoh Racing Project. During the 1990s, Genki produced a highway drift/adult content (omitted in the localization Highway 2000 ) oriented Shutokou Battle spin-off series for

4290-456: Was replaced by the " D1 Sisters " who were audition winners and representative of the agency D-Sign , consisting of Hiromi Goto, Yuria Tachiki, Asami Kikuchi and Ayaka Tashiro. Since the series began, Video Option has always covered all of the official D1GP events. Its English language sister title JDM Option , which was established in 2004, also covers the events. In 2007, the sports channel, J Sports ESPN began screening highlights of

4356-412: Was run in a tansou ( solo run ) format only and did not require the common safety amenities (e.g. rollcages), and the latter is a main championship for experienced drivers which consists of the usual tsuiso ( twin run ) rounds. The other difference is, D1 regulation is more stringent on car modifications. The club was since absorbed into the D1 franchise as a national series. The GB series, was followed by

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