D1 Grand Prix - ‘Tokyo Drift’ in Odaiba
June 15, 2008
The 2008 D1 Grand Prix Tokyo Drift in Odaiba took place over two days and featured the best drivers from Japan. The drift battle in the heat of Tokyo that has been held for 2 consecutive years, comes back after yearning of three years.
The Tokyo Drift Odaiba event was an exhibition match, not part of the ongoing 2008 D1GP Championship, so placement will not affect the drivers’ overall points standings in the series. The goal of Tokyo Drift Odaiba exhibitions is to increase accessibility and awareness of drifting motorsports.
As always, the judge panel is accompanied by the golden trio: Keiichi “Drift King” Tsuchiya, the ever loquacious announcer Manabu “Mana-P” Suzuki, D1 Senior Advisor Daijiro “Dai” Inada” and also Hisashi “Oni-Gunso” Kamimoto as the assistant judge in this event as well.
2008 D1 Grand Prix Tokyo Drift in Odaiba results:
1.Nobushige Kumakubo - Team Orange CT9A Mitsubishi Lancer EVO
2. Masao Suenaga - Mazda FD35 RX-7
3. Youiti Imamura - Boss S15 Nissan Silvia
4. Makoto Kawabata - Nissan 180SX
5. Yoshinori Koguchi - Nissan 180SX
6. Kuma Hutoshi Saitou - Fnatz JZX100 Toyota Chaser
7. Ken Nomura - ER34 Nissan Skyline
8. Akira Utsumi Toshino - S13 Nissan Silvia
9. Kazuyoshi Okamura - S15 Nissan Silvia
10. Tsutomu Huzio – Mazda FD3S RX-7
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yet he couldn’t qualify top 16!! top 16 scored betwen 99.9 and 100.0!! crazy skillful japanese!!
i think next time we have a reality based D1 series with phone votes and see who is the better driver. hahaha.
sumtimes unbelieveable…i have seen in D1GP 2007 at suzuka…the point was like 100 and then 99.98…99.97….sumthing like that…the point scoring was unconvincing or the competitor were done a near perfect work??
yet…last year D1Gp at Fuji speedway…if i can remember clearly there was more than 8drifters who get full 100 point which then the rank was given based on entry speed. Ueno Takahiro claim the top spot for highest entry speed although base on vcd i bought..he was more than meter away from the hairpin clipping point…yet 100 given….its never really clear how the point deduct coz there is only one drift king.
all i know is points are minus fraction by fraction if drifters doing mistake from 100. if a drifter get 99.95 mean he did 0.05 of mistake