D1GP USA announces Judges and Scoring Information
Posted by Wrecked Magazine on 06 Feb 2009 at 06:25 pm | Tagged as: D1GP USA, International, Japanese, Major Announcements, Max Orido
D1 Grand Prix USA will be releasing an official announcement later today on judging and the DriftBox they will be using but we are bringing you the story early on today. Each event will be scored by two American judges and one head Japanese judge. Scores for angle, speed, and g-forces will be taken from the data providede by the D1GP USA Pro 1 unit but the judges will account for line/style and producing the overall score together. The head judges will vary between one of these three profiles.
Keiichi Tsuchiya
Widely known as the “Drift King” he became famous for drifting at non-drift racing events around Japan. This brought popularity to drifting as a motorsport in Japan. He is well known for his documented togue (mountian racing) driving as well. Tsuchiya is said to be the head judge for Miami, Philadelphia, and Chicago.
Daijiro Inada
A major celebrity in Japanese automotive culture and a very recognized figure in the car scene. He is mostly known for being the founder of Option Magazine and the Option video series. He was a creator of the D1 Grand Prix Series and he started the Tokyo Auto Salon which really places him as an authorative figure in Japan’s automotive culture. He is an alternate for head judge in D1GP USA.
Manabu Suzuki
He is a former driver, journalist, sport announcers and TV presenter in the Japanese automotive industry. He competed in the Formula Toyota and Saurus Cup through the mid 90’s. He worked a ton with Option Magazine and the video offshoot Video Drift. He has been involved with Drift Tengoku which is a great Drifting only magazine in Japan. He was an original judge with Manbu Orido and Keiichi Tsuchiya in th D1 Grand Prix series of Japan.
Competition Staff
Terence Jenkins and Chiaki Goto will take over on-site personnel. Terence Jenkins will be the D1GP USA’s competition director which is a job none of us are envious over! He was the founder of Lateral G Racing and lead that team with Sam Hubinette to the first ever Formula D championship in 2004. Terence Jenkins then ran Octane TV which was a cable on-demand television series. Chiaki Goto is the Technical Director of the D1 Grand Prix series who was a former endurance racing champion and director of the 2003 JIC Magic Drift team. Goto is bringing his experiance from Japan and Drifting to the USA in 2009.
Racelogic’s Drift Box
It will be used for judging called the D1GP USA Pro 1 which utilizes new proprietary algorithms and can measure a drift angle within .5 degree of accuracy. Speed can be calculated to 0.1 mph accuracy and lateral g loads within 0.01g. Data will be collected 10x a second and transmitted from the competition car via telemetry directly to the judges stand. The video VBOX will record the action from inside the vehicle during competition and overlay graphics on screen showing angle, speed, and g-force loads. Sounds like quite a bit of fun going on during the runs for the 2009 D1GP USA sesaon.
So basically…
Same bat cast
same bat rules
same bat dvd
same bat podium?
but wait, they have the driftbox. maybe that will save this comic strip…
Terence Jenkins…….Ha! Oh Man, here we go.
Someone showed me this today… eeek, scary…
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/360/RipOff0360605.htm if you dont want to click it, the posting writes this about D1 founder…
Michael Munar of Lux5 blatantly lies to potential sponsors in order to get them to spend outrageous dollars to participate in his so-called luxury events. This guy is pathetic because he also perpetrates a fraud on the public by charging for tickets to his events and when you arrive, certain attractions he publicizes to get people in the door aren’t even there. He steals your money whether you’re a sponsor or consumer and this should be investigated by law enforcement. I think there is another owner, as well. This guy, Michael Munar, literally fabricates and lies about anything and cannot be believed. He takes sponsors and consumers money by making false promises and never delivers. This guy is a snake oil salesman to say the least. Michael Munar’s number one motive is to extract money from anyone and everyone through fraudulent means.
If you are asked to sponsor a Lux5 Event or even attend one of their ‘flea market’ events, I would stay away or get him on tape. The IRS should even look into this company because they accept cash for tickets from consumers and it’s highly likely that they may not be reporting it.
Manny
Los Angeles, California
U.S.A.
Do you mean touge? (toe-ghey)
This is the second time you’ve posted something and refered to it as togue.
Haha… same Bat BS.
It appears to me that this “new” D1 is nothing more that the “old” D1 trying to pretend that something has changed.
What do the drivers who’ll be participating in this think?
The sideline participants have all posted as always, what about some the actual drivers who’ll be competing?
I know a lot of people who’re excited about a tier II series.
looks like FD nut swingers are in full effect on these websites. it’s pretty obvious that most everything negative about D1 is coming from these guys. i was just checking out the d1gp website and saw their blog section. see the part where they talk about the d1gp pro1 system and read. they are calling out the drivers. i personally want to see what the data says from this thing. i have seen many questionable events, especially in FD. i want to know for a fact who the best out there is and i want the data to tell me not three nobody judges in a tower