D1 GP comes to SpeedTV this September
The far-reaching, far-reaching universe of sports is removing so tiny it’ll shortly be means to dance upon a conduct of the pin. First soccer (i.e., The Other Football) took over ESPN, right away a strange flapping array, Japans’ D1 GP, is headed to SpeedTV for the multi-episode rendezvous from September to November.
There will be 15 one-hour programs, 9 covering races in Japan, 3 U.S. races, and an muster as well as the wrap-up uncover. It all starts with a eventuality in Tokyo upon September 12. You’ll wish to spin off your fume alarms, for blazing rubber is headed this approach. Follow a burst for a press recover as well as a teaser.
[Source: D1 GP]
Full PR text:SPEED™ as well as D1 WORLDWIDE PARTY MAKE KNOWN
A 2010 D1 USA GRAND PRIX EVENTUALITY DATES
SPEED™ to Carry the Series of One-Hour Broadcasts
Covering all U.S. as well as Japanese D1 Grand Prix Events starting Saturday, September 4, 2010
Burbank, CA – June 9, 2010 – SPEED™ as well as D1 Worldwide Entertainment, (www.d1gp.com, www.d1we.com), a central organizers of automotive entertainment’s premier flapping events in a United States voiced currently a 2010 USA D1 Grand Prix eventuality line-up as well as which any eventuality, and a D1 Grand Prix Japan events will be lonesome by one-hour radio broadcasts to be carried upon SPEED™ via a complete flapping deteriorate.
The initial SPEED promote is scheduled for September 4 during 6:30 p.m. ET from Tokyo, with a second eventuality premiering September 12th during 6 p.m. ET from Oita, Japan.
“Bringing USA D1 Grand Prix flapping events to SPEED is the cold brand new further to a network,” pronounced SPEED President Hunter Nickell. “Combining a immature, cutting-edge ambience of flapping with a story as well as laxity of horde venues similar to Atlanta, Texas, Homestead-Miami, as well as Irwindale will be the singular knowledge for the viewers.”
D1 Grand Prix events have been hold as adrenaline packaged, tire smoked filled weekends with circle to circle, head-to-head matches in between drivers flapping inches detached during speeds in additional of 120mph. Successive singular rejecting heats heading up to the last foe have been used to establish an eventuality leader. All drivers which continue a crashes, automatic failures, as well as unbending foe embrace points formed upon their last eventuality station as well as amass points via a deteriorate to establish a altogether deteriorate holdup, identical to alternative automotive party.
The 2010 USA D1 Grand Prix events have been:
August 13-14: Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, TX (Round 1 & 2)
September 24 – 25: Atlanta Motor Speedway, Atlanta, GA (Round 3)
October 29-30: Homestead Miami Speedway, Homestead, FL (Round 4)
November 27-28: Toyota Speedway during Irwindale, Irwindale, CA (Round 5/Finale)
D1 Corporation Co., Ltd. (Japan) boss Osami Suzuki proudly voiced, “We have been intensely unapproachable as well as respected which D1 has found a correct home upon SPEED to have the competition develop.”
“We have been bringing loyal Japanese-style drift-car foe to raceways, together with multiform NASCAR marks, in a United States,” pronounced Bob Cook as well as Sam Johnson, partner-owners in D1 Worldwide Entertainment, along with D1 Corp Japan. “The fad as well as adrenaline pour out of D1 Grand Prix is similar to examination a final 4 laps of the NASCAR competition in each head-to-head compare!”
The array of fifteen one-hour radio broadcasts will cover all a movement, play as well as violent pushing as drifters strife similar to complicated day gladiators upon a pavement terrain during 5 USA D1 Grand Prix events as well as 9 D1 Grand Prix events in Japan and the season-ending wrap-up special. The events will be the loyal general foe, together with drivers from both a United States as well as Japan. Each radio promote will cover a Top 3 American drivers together with Samuel Hubinette, dubbed a “Crazy Swede” the 2-time American flapping holdup who additionally happens to be the Hollywood attempt motorist; Hawaii-native Forrest Wang, who is a single of a chosen drivers in a D1 Grand Prix flapping array; as well as Mike Pollard, a 24-year-old prodigy from Minnesota as they plea a tip D1 Grand Prix Championship drivers from Japan in their quest to be crowned a most appropriate drifter in a universe.
The 2010 D1 Grand Prix events in Japan have been:
March 27-28 – Tokyo Drift in Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan (Round 1 as well as All Stars)
April 24-25 – Autopolis International Racing Course, Kamit-sue-mura, Hita-gun, Oita, Japan (Round 2)
June 5-6 – Fuji Int’l Speedway, Nakahinata Oyama-Cho Sunto-Gun, Shizuoka-Ken, Japan (Rounds 3)
June 26-27 – Okayama, Aida-cho, Aida-gun, Japan (Round 4)
July 17-18 – Tokachi, Japan (Round 5)
August 7-8 – EBISU, Nihonmatsu-shi, Japan (Rounds 6 as well as 7)
October 9-10 – Fuji Int’l Speedway, Shizuoka-Ken, Japan (Exhibition as well as Round 8 Japan Finale)
SPEED promote Inform (all time ET; theme to shift:
Tokyo: Sat, Sep 4 – 6:30pm
Oita: Sun, Sep 12 – 6pm
Fuji: Sat, Sep 18 – 6pm
Okayama: Sun, Sep 26 – 6pm
Tokachi: Sun, Oct 3 – 6pm
Ebisu: Sat, Oct 9 – 5pm
Ebisu 2: Sun, Oct 17 – 6pm
Texas: Sat, Oct 23 – 5pm
Texas 2: Sun, Oct 31 – 2pm
Atlanta: Sat, Nov 7 – 4pm
Fuji Exhibition: Sat, Nov 13 – 6pm
Miami: Sat, Nov 20 – 6pm
Fuji: Sun, Dec 5 – 5pm
Wrapup: Sun, Dec 5 – 6pm
Irwindale: Sun, Dec 12 – 6pm
D1 Corp (Japan), a first classification that grown veteran flapping competitions as well as has been organizing them all over a universe for over the decade, will be obliged in a United States for eventuality set-up, lane configurations, scheduling, judging as well as all things associated to motorist foe. Sponsorship as well as Branded Entertainment maestro Brett Lyons of Match Entertainment will lead all unite overdo as well as partnerships opposite a mixed D1 platforms together with TV, Online, Mobile, as well as out of home promotional platforms. Sporting events maestro Ed Arguelles of Imagine Media Group, LLC will hoop all eventuality selling, graduation, businessman relations as well as singular sponsorships. Rainer Siek, past boss of CBS Broadcast International, will be doing all general radio sales as well as D1 Worldwide Entertainment will hoop all chartering as well as merchandising as well as worldwide sponsorships, solely Japan.
About SPEED™
SPEED™, anchored by the renowned as well as wide-ranging coverage of NASCAR, is a nation’s initial as well as usually wire radio network dedicated to automotive as well as motorcycle racing, opening as well as lifestyle. Now accessible in some-more than 80 million homes in North America, SPEED™ is between a attention leaders in interactive TV, video upon direct, mobile initiatives as well as broadband services. For some-more Inform, gratefully revisit SPEEDtv.com, a online engine sports management.
About D1 Worldwide Entertainment
Formed in 2009 by maestro 20th Century Fox Television senior manager as well as businessman Bob Cook as well as party selling businessman Sam Johnson along with D1 Corporation Co., Ltd. (Japan) as well as the boss Osami Suzuki, D1 Worldwide Entertainment’s design is to move loyal Japanese-style drift-car motorcar events, around D1 Grand Prix branded events to audiences around a universe, The association binds all rights to D1 Grand Prix, outward of Japan, together with chartering, merchandising, promotions, selling, mobile, DD, events, song, digital, gaming as well as sell. The association is now gearing up for a 2010 United States D1 Grand Prix deteriorate as well as has scheduled 5 events using May by October 2010. The association has protected North American promote rights to a 2010 D1 Grand Prix deteriorate to a SPEED™ as well as FOX Sports Net. International promote rights have been still accessible to a 2010 D1 Grand Prix array.
