2004 D1 Grand Prix season

2004 D1 Grand Prix season
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Changes for the 2004 Season

• Autobacs becomes title sponsor.
• Introduction of the D1 Gals who would appear at each event. Previously to that, the series used girls who were represented by other sponsors.
• Cars are now required to bear the D1GP sponsor box, containing the series' sponsors logos, at the side of the car at each event.
• Cars are now required to bear the D1GP orange sunvisor, containing the series logo and the company logo, at each event.

2004 Schedules

n.b. Winning Driver are mentioned on the right

2004 D1 Grand Prix Point Series

Round 1 - February 27/28 - Irwindale Speedway, Irwindale, California, USA - Yasuyuki Kazama (S15)
Round 2 - May 4/5 - Sports Land SUGO (Go-Kart circuit), Miyagi Prefecture, Japan - Yasuyuki Kazama (S15)
Round 3 - July 24/25 - Ebisu South Course, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan - Ken Nomura (ER34)
Round 4 - August 21/22 - Autopolis, Ōita Prefecture, Japan - Nobuteru Taniguchi (S15)
Round 5 - September 18 - Metropolitan Parking, Odaiba, Japan - Ryuji Miki (S15)
Round 6 - October 23/24 - Ebisu South Course, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan - Youichi Imamura (FD3S)
Round 7 - November 25 - Tsukuba Circuit, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan - Youichi Imamura (FD3S)

2004 D1 Grand Prix Exhibition Matches

D1 Pre-Season Match - January 17 - Metropolitan Parking, Odaiba, Japan - Kuniaki Takahashi (JZX100)
D1 Exhibition - Apr. 17 - Metropolitan Parking, Odaiba, Japan - Ken Nomura (ER34)
D1 Odaiba Allstar Match - Apr. 18 - Metropolitan Parking, Odaiba, Japan - Yasuyuki Kazama (S15)
D1 Odaiba Allstar Match - Sep. 19 - Metropolitan Parking, Odaiba, Japan - Youichi Imamura (FD3S)
D1 USA vs Japan Allstar - December 17 - California Speedway, Fontana, California, USA - Nobushige Kumakubo (S15)

Final Championship Results

Position	Driver	Car	rd.1	rd.2	rd.3	rd.4	rd.5	rd.6	rd.7	Total
1st	Ryuji Miki	Nissan Silvia S15	12	14	14	16	20	18	16	110
2nd	Nobuteru Taniguchi	Nissan Silvia S15/Toyota Altezza SXE10	18	18	16	20	10	-	-	82
3rd	Youichi Imamura	Mazda RX-7 FD3S	-	10	10	-	18	20	20	78
4th	Yasuyuki Kazama	Nissan Silvia S15	20	20	6	14	6	-	6	72
4th	Ken Nomura	Nissan Skyline ER34	16	16	20	6	8	6	-	72
6th	Nobushige Kumakubo	Nissan Silvia S15	14	12	12	-	-	4	18	60
7th	Ken Maeda	Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86	-	-	-	12	16	14	-	42
8th	Kazuhiro Tanaka	Nissan Silvia S15	10	-	8	-	4	10	-	32
9th	Tetsuya Hibino	Toyota Corolla Levin AE86	-	-	18	-	-	12	-	30
10th	Toyohisa Matsuda	Toyota Corolla Levin AE86	-	-	-	-	12	-	10	22
11th	Hideo Hiraoka	Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86	-	4	-	2	-	-	14	20
11th	Takahiro Ueno	Toyota Soarer JZZ30	-	8	-	-	-	-	12	20
13th	Toshiki Yoshioka	Toyota Corolla Levin/Sprinter Trueno AE86	-	-	-	18	-	-	-	18
13th	Drift Samurai	Mazda RX-7 FC3S	-	-	-	2	-	16	-	18
15th	Akinori Utsumi	Mazda RX-7 FD3S	-	2	-	-	14	-	-	16
16th	Atsushi Kuroi	Nissan Silvia PS13	8	-	4	-	-	-	2	14
16th	Masao Suenaga	Mazda RX-7 FD3S	-	6	-	-	-	-	8	14
18th	Kazunari Hayashida	Nissan Silvia S15	-	-	-	10	-	2	-	12
19th	Shinichi Yamada	Toyota Corolla Levin AE86/Nissan Silvia S15	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	8
19th	Shunichi Tomikuda	Nissan Silvia PS13	-	-	-	8	-	-	-	8
21st	Gen Terasaki	Toyota Corolla Levin AE86	4	-	2	-	-	-	-	6
21st	Hisashi Kamimoto	Nissan Silvia S15	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	6
23rd	Masato Kawabata	Nissan Silvia S15	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	4
23rd	Hiroshi Fukuda	Nissan 180SX RPS13	2	-	-	-	2	-	-	4
23rd	Kuniaki Takahashi	Toyota Chaser JZX100	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	4
26th	Samuel Hubinette	Toyota Supra JZA80	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	2

• Source: D1GP Official Site 2004 Championship table

See also

• D1 Grand Prix
• Drifting (motorsport)

Source

• D1GP Results Database 2000-2004