June 10.2008
Yoichi Imamura of Team BOSS with POTENZA D-1 Project Wins Tokyo Drift in Odaiba/D1 Grand Prix Exhibition Match.

At the Tokyo Drift in Odaiba/D-1 Grand Prix Exhibition Match, held in Tokyo's popular Odaiba area on June 7 and 8, Team BOSS with POTENZA D-1 Project and Team Toyo with GP Sports both collaborators with NISMO and Motul in the development of Competition Oil scored impressive results.
Yoichi Imamura of Team BOSS with POTENZA D-1 Project, who has had a steady string of strong finishes in the 2008 Series, was in ninth place at the end of the qualify on June 8 tournament with 100 points at 119kph. In the tsuiso tornament section, he kept start drifting at same time with theformer in the first corner, after the second corner he kept very infighting drift and moved to the semi-final, before finally taking the championship.
Masato Kawabata of Team Toyo with GP Sports, although having difficulty in the semi-final, showed the driving skill that made him the 2007 Series champion and finished in second place.
Imamura gave a real crowd -pleasing performance on June 7th tornament the win moves him up to third place in the june 7th tornament while Kawabata is right behind him in fourth place.
June 8th tornament results
| Machine | Driver | Parts/products used | Results |
| Team BOSS with POTENZA D-1 Project | Yoichi Imamura | GT L.S.D.Pro, SUPER COPPERMIX COMPETITION OIL* |
1st |
| TEAM TOYO with GP SPORTS | Masato Kawabata | GT L.S.D.Pro, SUPER COPPERMIX TWIN COMPETITION OIL* |
2nd |
| Koguchi Power | Yoshinori Koguchi | GT L.S.D.Pro | 8th |
| BLITZ | Ken Nomura | GT L.S.D.Pro | 9th |
| TEAM TOYO with GP SPORTS | Tetsuya Sakuma | GT L.S.D.Pro, SUPER COPPERMIX TWIN COMPETITION OIL* |
10th |
*Sales of Competition Oil scheduled for Summer 2008.
June 7th tornament results| Machine | Driver | Parts/products used | Results |
| Team BOSS with POTENZA D-1 Project | Yoichi Imamura | GT L.S.D.Pro, SUPER COPPERMIX COMPETITION OIL* |
3rd |
| TEAM TOYO with GP SPORTS | Masato Kawabata | GT L.S.D.Pro, SUPER COPPERMIX TWIN COMPETITION OIL* |
4th |
| Koguchi Power | Yoshinori Koguchi | GT L.S.D.Pro | 5th |
| BLITZ | Ken Nomura | GT L.S.D.Pro | 7th |
| Team Yashio Factory | Kazuyoshi Okamura | GT L.S.D.Pro, SUPER COPPERMIX COMPETITION OIL* |
9th |
| TEAM TOYO with GP SPORTS | Tetsuya Sakuma | GT L.S.D.Pro, SUPER COPPERMIX TWIN COMPETITION OIL* |
16th |
*Sales of Competition Oil scheduled for Summer 2008.
•Round 4 News!
The fourth round of the D-1 Grand Prix Series will be held on June 28 and 29 at the Okayama International Circuit in Okayama Prefecture.
•The D-1 Grand Prix Official website can be found here.