http://news.drift.com en-us http://news.drift.com N/A info@drift.com Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:56:08 -0600 20 http://news.drift.com/articles/62/1/Team-Orange-Announces-ENEOS-Oil-Sponsorship-for-2007-D1-GP-USA-Series/Team-Orange-Announces-ENEOS-Oil-Sponsorship-for-2007-D1-GP-USA-Series.html Prior to the US series opener in Englishtown, Team Orange welcomed ENEOS, the high performance motor oil by Nippon Oil Corp., as the official oil sponsor for the 2007 US series... info@hspn.com (Drift.com covering Team Orange) Thu, 17 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://news.drift.com/articles/60/1/Official-Drivers-List-for-D1-Englishtown/Official-Drivers-List-for-D1-Englishtown.html D1 Grand Prix Englishtown, NJMay 4-5th, 2007Admission: $15(Friday), $20(Saturday) only at Gate(No Pre-Sale Ticket)1.      Nobushige Kumakubo Subaru Impreza GDB2.      Ken Nomura Nissan Skyline ER34Click here to see all entries... info@d1gp.com (Drift.com covering D1 Grand Prix) Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://news.drift.com/articles/58/1/D1-Grand-Prix-USA-at-Old-Bridge-Raceway-Park-in-Englishtown-NJ/D1-Grand-Prix-USA-at-Old-Bridge-Raceway-Park-in-Englishtown-NJ.html We are proud to announce our first-ever D1 Grand Prix USA on the east coast at Old Bridge Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ, which will take place on May 4th and 5th.  Like the successful 2006 Las Vegas Event, we have teamed up with NHRA Sport Compact Drag Racing Series once again to show off the great sport of Drifting and Drag Racing in one place... info@d1gp.com (Drift.com covering D1 Grand Prix) Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://news.drift.com/articles/53/1/D1GP-Upgrades-US-Headquarters-To-Accommodate-Expanding-Professional-Drifting-Series/D1GP-Upgrades-US-Headquarters-To-Accommodate-Expanding-Professional-Drifting-Series.html D1 Grand Prix is proud to announce their recent move from Irvine to Torrance, California to a facility that will enhance the rapid development of their domestic D1 Grand Prix USA drifting... info@d1gp.com (Drift.com covering D1 Grand Prix) Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0600 http://news.drift.com/articles/47/1/Hideo-Tomitaka-Teams-Up-With-The-NOPI-Professional-Drift-Series/Hideo-Tomitaka-Teams-Up-With-The-NOPI-Professional-Drift-Series.html NOPI Motorsports and the NOPI Professional Drift Series is happy to announce its partnership with Hideo Tomitaka. Many of you know Hideo as the man behind the historic success of The D1 Grand Prix of professional drifting in the United States. However, there is much more to the story... info@hspn.com (Drift.com covering NOPI) Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://news.drift.com/articles/46/1/JR--The-El-Salvador-Invasion/JR--The-El-Salvador-Invasion.html JR and his Drift Alliance brother Chris Forsberg went to El Salvador to both teach a clinic on Drifting as well as introduce Drifting to El Salvador during the largest Annual Car Show. At first the two of them didn’t know what to expect, but they went down and did what they do best info@drift.com ( Drift.com News) Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://news.drift.com/articles/42/1/D1GP-Spawning-into-US-Series---2007-D1-Grand-Prix-Schedule/D1GP-Spawning-into-US-Series---2007-D1-Grand-Prix-Schedule.html With the successful collaboration with world renowned organizations in 2006, the D1 Grand Prix is proud to announce even bigger plans for the 2007 season.Since the D1 Grand Prix Professional Drift’s genesis in 1999 by Daijiro Inada, the founder of Option Magazine, D1 has become world renowned for its... info@d1gp.com (Drift.com covering D1 Grand Prix) Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://news.drift.com/articles/41/1/D1-Grand-Prix-World-Championship---2006/D1-Grand-Prix-World-Championship---2006.html Drifters, drift enthusiasts, and newcomers to this sport, be prepared for the gathering of the world’s best and talented tail sliders on an epic worldwide scale. Following the victory by Kazama in Round 1 and the monumental victory by Nomuken in Round 2, this December, for the first time in history, a WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS will emerge to be crowned in Irwindale, California... info@d1gp.com (Drift.com covering D1 Grand Prix) Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://news.drift.com/articles/38/1/Shakeup-at-D1GP-or-The-Start-of-a-quotTrue-USA-Series-of-Driftingquot/New-Drifting-Series-To-Be-Announced.html The email went out at at 2:31 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on October 5th,  Hideo Tomitaka of D's Club Inc., organizer of D1 Grand Prix USA, notified his friends and colleagues that... info@d1gp.com (Drift.com covering D1 Grand Prix) Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://news.drift.com/articles/33/1/Hubinette-Ready-To-Do-Battle-in-D1GP-Drift-Competition/Hubinette-Ready-To-Do-Battle-in-D1GP-Drift-Competition.html “The Crazy Swede,” Samuel Hubinette, will return to California’s Irwindale Speedway this Friday and Saturday to take on the best drifters from Japan and the U.S. in the D1 Grand Prix Series Round 1 event. Hubinette posted a tenth-place finish in a recent D1GP All-Star event at... info@d1gp.com (Drift.com covering D1 Grand Prix) Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://news.drift.com/articles/31/1/Professional-Drifting-as-a-Mainstream-Motorsport/Professional-Drifting-as-a-Mainstream-Motorsport.html Recently, D1 Professional Drift USA teamed up with the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA sport compact) to bring together two very different forms of motor sports competition at one event. This pairing of different racing disciplines is becoming more common... notused@hspn.com (Aaron Ekinaka) Sat, 12 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://news.drift.com/articles/20/1/D1-Professional-Drift-Action-Heats-Up-in-the-Las-Vegas-Desert/-D1-Action-Heats-Up-in-the-Las-Vegas-Desert.html Las Vegas Motor Speedway was the battleground for the world's top drift drivers to meet again for another round of exciting sideways action... notused@hspn.com (Aaron Ekinaka) Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://news.drift.com/articles/19/1/Yoshioka-wins-inaugural-D1-Drift-Grand-Prix-at-The-Strip-at-LVMS/Las-Vegas-Westover-wins-Quick-16-at-NHRA-Las-Vegas-Sport-Compact-Nationals.html LAS VEGAS – Toshiki Yoshioka of Hiroshima, Japan, won the Las Vegas D1 Drift Grand Prix finale over Fukushima, Japan’s Nobushige Kumakubo at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Saturday night... info@d1gp.com (Drift.com covering D1 Grand Prix) Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://news.drift.com/articles/17/1/Up-Close-With-The-Drift-King/Drift-King-Keiichi-Tsuchiya-Part-I.html The atmosphere at the Shah Alam D1 Grand Prix media booth is a frantic one as reporters and photographers jostle for the Drift King’s attention. Outside, the roar of engines and the sounds of screeching tyres make conversation nearly impossible... info@d1gp.com (Drift.com covering D1 Grand Prix) Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://news.drift.com/articles/1/1/Drifting--Nascar-All-Stars-Set-To-Duel-in-Mopar-D1-Duel/Press-Release-Driftcom-Did-Not-Generate-This-Content.html In what will amount to a tire-smoking, sideways battle between drivers from two vastly different motorsports disciplines, Team Mopar's Samuel Hubinette, along with some of the hottest names in the D1 Professional Drift Grand Prix Series, will take on... info@d1gp.com (Drift.com covering D1 Grand Prix) Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://news.drift.com/articles/2/1/D1-GP--NHRA-Team-Up-for-Drag--Drift-Las-Vegas/Press-Release-Driftcom-Did-Not-Generate-This-Content.html If nail biting sideways drift action at 120 M.P.H. & the bone crunching, carbon fiber splintering crashes leaving pro drift cars in pieces on the tarmac is not enough to keep you on the edge of your seat, you can get a... info@d1gp.com (Drift.com covering D1 Grand Prix) Sun, 14 May 2006 00:00:00 -0500