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Oridio’s Car Before it was packed up!
Posted by admin on 03 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: International, Major Announcements, D1GP, Formula D
Jim from Formula D sent us a nice picture of Oridio’s car before it was boxed up and shipped to the USA! We will be on the case next week to get you photos of Alex P’s car and the Aristo in Vegas next week!
The rumors have come true: Orido is here!
Posted by admin on 02 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: International, Rumors/Gossip, D1GP, Formula D
Formula D has just announced that Orido will be attending Vegas. We reported him in Long Beach as his name was found on a driver’s list privately but nothing came of it. It looks as now they have officially announced his arrival in the City of Sin for next week. Orido will be piloting Project Mu / 3T Motorsport / Yokohama Aristo. We will keep you posted and hunt for some photos of this Aristo!
Spotted: NOB Taniguchi’s Intercooler Setup on his HKS Aristo
Posted by admin on 30 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Spy Shots, International, D1GP
One of our favorite bloggers of all things from Japan posted up some great spy shots of NOB’s new intercooler setup on his Toyota Aristo! We have to say it looks amazing so we wanted to share it with you guys. The photo is from the HKS Japan blog.
Tokyo Drift!!! The D1 Grand Prix invaded the big city Drifting Gallery
Posted by admin on 10 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: International, D1GP
The D1 Grand Prix threw the Tokyo Drift in Odaiba for the first time in history. Nobushige Kumakubo took home the win in his Mitsubishi Evo for the weekend! Don’t miss the most extensive coverage of D1’s Tokyo Drift around! Visit the gallery by clicking here!
Don’t forget to check out the Wrecked Magazine Gallery By Clicking Here
Photo Credit: Dino Dalle Carbonare!
D1 Grand Prix - Tokyo Drift in Odaiba! Paddock/Pits Gallery
Posted by admin on 09 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: D1GP
The D1 Grand Prix finally took over Tokyo in Odaiba after a long time coming! The event was exciting and we plan to bring you more than 500+ photos from the weekend thanks to our far east brothern Dino Dalle Carbonare! Check out the gallery Click Here
Tsuyoshi Tezuka wins Round 3 at Suzuka Circuit!
Posted by admin on 27 May 2008 | Tagged as: International, D1GP
Tsuyoshi Tezuka brought home his first ever win in the Bee Racing Nissan Skyline finally! It was a hard fought battle to defeat Kuroi Atsushi finally in the finals. Congrats to the team and Tezuka for a hard fought and well deserved victory!
Issue 4 is now live!
Posted by admin on 06 May 2008 | Tagged as: Ken Gushi, International, Vaughn Gittin Jr., Scion, D1GP, Drift Alliance, Chris Forsberg, Formula D, Magazine
Check out the Drift Alliance unplugged and censored as they talk about the new film coming out this weekend called Stay Hungry! New Blood checks out a local from Nashville, Tennessee Adam who has a uniquely sprayed S14 240sx and just recently acquired a NOPI license. You can also view all the new cars in Formula D that debuted at Round 1 in Long Beach, California. We event went all the way out east to visit J land and cover D1’s Fuji Speedway event in our In Focus section. Don’t miss this issue and keep coming back for more!
D1 Grand Prix: Seeded Practice/Vendor Row - Fuji Speedway
Posted by admin on 26 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: International, D1GP
We figured you guys hadn’t gotten enough D1 coverage from this weekend so we are dropping a second gallery on you from the weekend. We had to get this up before we headed out for the main event today. It’s 8:51am out in Japan which is earlier than we have even been awake in the USA EVER just for you guys.
Click here or the images to visit the gallery!
Nomura ripping it up in his R34 Skyline!
Team Orange was in full effect with 4 cars!
D1GP: Fuji Speedway Photo Gallery
Posted by admin on 26 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: D1GP
Click these photos to enjoy hundreds of D1GP photographs from the weekend at Fuji Speedway. NOB Taniguchi managed to qualify in the last space! Click Here for D1GP Gallery
D1GP: Fuji Speedway Day 1
Posted by admin on 26 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: International, D1GP
In America all is quiet but in Asia things are going nuts! Congrats first off to Formula D, a friend from China just shot me an e-mail saying he saw the Malaysia demo on television in China! Huge news. I just got in from the Fuji Speedway event and it was a blast until the rain came down mid afternoon. Here is how the drivers fell into order.
Seeded Drivers:
1.Masato Kawabata
2.Ken Nomura
3.Kazuhiro Tanaka
4.Masao Suenaga
5.Takahiro Ueno
6.Kunika Takahasi
7.Yoichi Imamura
8.Tetsuya Hibino
9.Kazuyoshi Okamura
10.Toshiki Yoshioka
11.Tsuyoshi Tezuka
Unseeded Drivers who made it to Sunday:
12.Atsushi Kuroi
13.Daigo Saito
14.Tatsuya Sakuma
15.Drift Zamurai
16.Hiroshi Fukuda
17.Nobushige Kumakubo
18.Toru Inose
19.Yoshinori Koguchi
20.Masayoshi Tokita
21.Manabu Fujinaka
22.Hisashi Oginome
23.Chikara Mizuhata
24.Shinji Minowa
25.Akinori Utsumi
26.Kenji Takayama
27.Kazuya Matsukawa
28.Hideo Hiraoka
29.Tomokazu Hirota
30.Nobuteru Taniguchi
On another note, American driver Robbie Nashida didn’t make the cut but performed very very well and finished 33rd for the day.
