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Provisional Timetable for the UK Exhibition Match has been announced.

D1GP, a new conceptual entertainment event from Japan which already has taken Japan and the States by storm. The first ever event in Europe, Silverstone Exhibition Match, will be held on Brooklands corner and Luffield corner which are called Complex. This unique layout consists two continuous corners, but as it also consists a long straight,the top speed before the Complex is estimated over 110 miles/h ! The highlight here is definitely the first Brooklands entry.

Where you start drifting, how much angle of drifting you make and how fast you can carry the speed into drifting will be counted to the judgements. And, they will need to keep drifting until Luffield entry, then flip the car to the opposite drifting angle with keeping high speed. Luffield is only a slow speed corner, however if you can nail on the throttle pedal and make loud noise and massive smoke, it will bring them even more judging points. And finally, in the best 16 heads-up eliminations, this is called "Tsuisou", most of the teams are supposed to go for dogfights without much tactics because none of them have ever done tandem drifting on this track.
D1GP, the fastest growing event and the king of drifting events. If you say you are a big fan of drifting, you don't want to miss this first ever event in Europe ! .... [ continue ]
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2nd October Silverstone - D1GP Special Exhibition Match Competitor List

Preparation for the first ever UK D1GP event has made a further step forward as they are now finalizing the teams' and drivers' line-up for the event.
D1GP revealed their provisional list of Japanese contenders at the beginning of this week and it says all the major contenders and cars are up for the UK event. The list is below.

Drivers & cars - From Japan : Yasuyuki Kazama [Kei Office] Nissan Silvia S15 / Youichi Imamura [Apexera] Mazda RX-7 FD3S / Takahiro Ueno [Team T&E] Toyota Soarer JZZ30 / Masato Kawabata [TRUST D1 S15] Nissan Silvia S15 / Nobushige Kumakubo [Team Orange] Subaru Impreza GDB / Ryuji Miki [TOP Secret] Nissan Silvia S15 / Toshiki Yoshioka [DRoo-p] Toyota SprinterTrueno AE86 / Ken Nomura [Blitz] Nissan Skyline ER34 / Kazuhiro Tanaka [Team Orange] Nissan Skyline ECR33 / Kuniaki Takahashi [Kunny'z SUMO POWER] Nissan Fairlady Z Z33 / Hideo Hiraoka [DRoo-p] Nissan Silvia PS13 / Naoto Suenaga [Team Orange] Nissan Silvia RPS13 / Tsuyoshi Tezuka [Bee-R] Nissan Skyline HCR32 / Tetsuya Hibino [Sunrize] Corolla Levin AE86 / Kouji Fukuda [Power Enterprise] Nissan 180SX PS13 / TBA [Signal Auto] Nissan Silvia PS13 / TBA [HKS] Nissan Silvia S15.

Drivers & cars - From Europe : Darren McNamara Ireland Toyota Corolla AE86 / Eric O'Sullivan Ireland Toyota Corolla AE86 / Julian Smith Ireland Nissan Skyline GTR32 / Phil Morrison England Nissan 200SX S14 / Reserve 1-Brett Castle England Nissan 200SX S14 / Reserve 2-Paul Vlasblom Holland BMW M13 Touring.

D1 Grand Prix 'Driver Search Europe' - 25th August 2005 - Silverstone Circuit, England

The first ever D1 Grand Prix 'Driver Search Europe' went ahead today at the world famous Silverstone Circuit in England. Silverstone Circuit is renowned as the home of British Motorsport and this was a fitting venue for our event. Driver Search's have been held regularly in Japan and America over the past few years and the time has now come for Europe to have it's opportunity.

The Driver Search format is used by the D1 Corporation to assess driver's abilities for entry into a full-on D1 event in there respective country or region. The European event in question is the D1 Grand Prix Exhibition on October 2nd 2005, which is also to be held at Silverstone Circuit, where a minimum of 16 Japanese D1 Grand Prix Drivers will attend. These Japanese drivers will not only put on an Exhibition event but within this will give European drivers the chance to compete against them. This is not only an honor for the European drivers but an opportunity none of them want to miss.

Judging is the key to a Driver Search and we were proud to have Mr. Ken Nomura fly in from Japan as our judge for the day. Mr. Ken Nomura, who regularly competes in D1 Grand Prix's in his Blitz Racing Nissan Skyline, used his expertise at judging talented drivers to ensure the best were picked to go up against the Japanese D1 Drivers.

A total of 31 drivers competed in the Driver Search with entries from England, Ireland, Norway, Holland and France. Spectators are not allowed at a Driver Search but the Press and Media were invited. The weather was kind to us in the morning with sun and scattered cloud and this carried on until roughly 1.30 pm, when the weather deteriorated bring us rain and wind. The drivers were not deterred by this, as drifting is not just a sunshine event, and they carried on regardless of the tricky conditions. At around 3pm the weather broke again and the sun returned.
Drivers continued to run until Mr. Nomura had seen all drivers complete numerous runs in the wet and the dry. The skill required on a drying track is immense and the majority of the drivers coped very well.

At around 5.00pm the drivers were all asked to return to the pit area, park up and make there way to the briefing room where the results would be given. A lot of tension was seen in the drivers faces as through an interpreter Mr. Nomura gave out the results. Cheering and clapping followed as the successful drivers names were read out. At the end of the Driver Search 6 drivers are confirmed for the October 2nd event, names as follows :

We knew that the D1 Grand Prix 'Driver Search Europe' would be a great success as the format has been working in Japan and the USA for many years now as mentioned earlier. What we were pleased with though was the quality of drivers that entered for the Driver Search. European drivers will we are sure become a force to be reckoned with in the future and we hope to see some of them continue onto the most professional events that Drifting has to offer in the world (and the ones that every driver wants to compete in), the D1 Grand Prix's.

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