Hey I don't think too many people know about this because D1 hasn't been doing much advertising for it but the D1 Grand Prix US Drivers Search Competition is this Sunday the 15th at Irwindale Speedway. The winner of the event will get a chance to compete in D1GP in August with all the Japanese pro racers.



D1 Grand Prix USA
US Drivers Search Competition
Irwindale Speedway June 15th
10AM-530PM

Tickets: Online or at the gate

www.d1gp.com

Come and watch and root on your American drivers, as they try to impress Drift King, Keiichi Tsuchiya for a possible spot in the D1 USA Compeition on Ausgust 31st. Will the Drift King be impressed? Will the US drivers be able to raise the bar? Come and See!

Guest Appearances by:
Nobushige KumaKubo - Nissan 180SX
Kazahiro Tanaka - Nissan 180SX
Masatoshi Asamoto - Nissan 180SX
Ken Nomura - Nissan Skyline Sedan, ER34
Takahiro Ueno - Toyota Soarer, JZZ30
Yuuki Izumida - Nissan Skyline, BNR32
Nobeteri Taniguchi - guest driver
Yoshiniro Koguchi - guest driver

 

A couple of the drifting cars from Japan just arrived at the Long Beach port 2 days ago i think and they were transported to Apex'i. Im pretty sure they are gonna be at the event doing exhibition runs and stuff.

 

or whatever the name of the guy who was driving that 350Z.
He was better than everyone else on the course & he was waving his hand out of the car the whole time he was drifting the course.

The team orange was beyond fresh with the team skills.

This was one dope event, cant wait till august.

also, whoever parked their white wrx wagon behind my blue pearle wagon, nice ride :P
--michael

 

yea too bad more people didnt know about the event and the crowd wasnt as hyped up as the pro drifters and d1gp expected. Koguchi told me that if the crowd was cheering enough that he would have done some crazy shiet like hold a drift around the whole outside turn and keep it drifting around the whole track, going over the cones, back to the outside turn again. That would have been sweet.