The D1 Grand Prix professional drifting series will make it’s first-ever United States east coast appearance with the 2007 D1 Grand Prix season opener on May 4 and 5th at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ. This first-ever east coast D1 Grand Prix event will also include an “ikaten,” or D1 Grand Prix Driver Search - where amateur drift drivers will have a chance to earn their D1GP license.

The “ikaten” will be held on May 4th, cost the Driver Search applicant $100 USD, and give local drifters a chance at becoming the next D1 Grand Prix star driver by showing their drift skills to D1 Grand Prix judges, Keiichi “Drift King” Tsuchiya and Daijiro Inada - the founder of Option Magazine and the Tokyo Auto Salon. If Tsuchiya and Inada think you got the drift skills to hang with pro Japanese drift drivers like Kumakubo, Tanaka, Nomura, Ueno, Yoshioka, Saito, ect., you might see yourself in the D1GP! This is a great opportunity for aspiring pro drift drivers.

Like the 2006 D1GP All Star Exhibition Event held last July in Las Vegas, D1 Grand Prix is again teaming up with the NHRA Sport Compact Drag Racing Series for this drift and drag sport-compact event.

This D1 Grand Prix event will be broadcast on ESPN2.

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