D1 Grand Prix 2005 Season Opener
February 27 : Irwindale Speedway CA

After a successful year for the D1 Grand Prix in 2004, D1 is forecasting a heavy downpour of rubber and a thick layer of tire smoke in 2005. We kick off the 2005 D1 point series with the D1GP Round 1 in California! The public is suggested to stay indoors until February 27 when the stands should fill up and cars will be ready to battle.

D1 Point Series Round 1 will be held on Sunday, February 27, bringing our spectators an official point series experience. The top 32 drivers from the US and Japan will be competing for actual series points. Come watch the intense battles come to life when we narrow it down to the top 16 and start Tsuiso (tandem drifting). Watching two D1 machines in twin drift come around that Irwindale bank at over 100mph is something only D1 can bring you. There will also be booths from your favorite import lifestyle companies, vendor booths, activities, and a halftime show for all our fans to check out.

This is going to be another successful event and we want you all to be a part of it. We hope to see you all there in February. Yes...ONE MORE TIME!!!

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Confirmed list of Japanese drivers:

Miki Taniguchi Imamura	Kazama Nomuken Kumakubo	Maeda Tanaka Hibino
Matsuda Hiraoka Ueno	Yoshioka Drift Samurai Utsumi	Kuroi Suenaga Terasaki
Hayashida Orido Takahashi	Takatori Kawabata Koguchi	Fukuda Hoshino Tezuka
Tokita Yamashita

D1GP Team News:

Team Jasper Performance is preparing to embark upon its greatest competitive year to date. With 22 professional events on the calendar for 2005, early preparation will definitely be the key to a successful season.

The Jasper Team plans on attending all six of the official D1 events taking place here in the United States, which kick off nationally here at Irwindale California on February 27th. With this first event on the horizon and the addition of our new sponsors, Tilton, HKS, and Turbonetics, we will be engineering the silver Supra to better give the top Japanese competitors a run for their money.

McKinney Motorsports Racing will field a two car drift team for the 2005 season. Drivers will be Ernie Fixmer and Tanner Foust. Both are D1 licensed and have competed in the US vs. Japan drift event with Ernie finishing eighth.

They will be will be driving twin black 240sx (180sx style) cars with parts from Motegi Touge wheels, Dunlop tires and body kits by Cwings and Touge racing products. Ernie’s 320ps SR20DET with Innovative turbo and Tanners 400ps RB25DET with HKS turbine will be competing in the up coming February 27 D1 Round 1 Season Opener.