D1 NEXT Central 2026 Rd.2 Mobara Results: Tsuyoshi Nakagawa Wins

Tsuyoshi Nakagawa (中川剛志, #13) won D1 NEXT Central Series 2026 Round 2 at Mobara Twin Circuit (Chiba) on Sunday 24 May 2026, beating Naoki Miyazaki (宮崎尚紀, #18) in the final. He went into the afternoon eighth of 30 in solo qualifying and knocked out the man who had topped it, Kotaro Takahashi (高橋虎太郎, #7), in the quarter-finals. The official table gives him 25 points to Miyazaki’s 21, with Kazuya Endo (遠藤和哉, #17) third on 18. This report was written up on 7 September 2026 from D1’s official post of 26 May and the tournament chart attached to it, and every figure in it was checked on the official pages on 7 Sep 2026.

Who won Round 2, and how?

Round 2 moved the Central series from Tochigi to Chiba, and turned the track around. Mobara Twin Circuit organised the round itself, and the circuit’s own D1 NEXT page marks 24 May as 逆走 (gyakusō) — the course driven in the opposite direction — where September’s Rd.3 is listed on the forward layout. Where this tier sits under D1 Lights and D1 Grand Prix is in our D1 NEXT explainer, and the venue is in our Mobara Twin Circuit guide. D1 names the judges as Furuguchi (古口美範) and Kuniaki Takahashi (高橋邦明), the same Takahashi the circuit lists on its panel for September.

Thirty drivers took solo runs — tansō (単走), judged runs on your own — scored twice each and ranked on their best. Only the top 16 got a battle. Kotaro Takahashi topped the sheet on 98.8, Hiroki Komuro (小室弘樹, #38) followed on 98.3 and Kanon Niimura (新村華音, #27) on 98.1, and the whole cut fitted inside 1.75 points: 16th place, Kenjiro Shimoda (下田賢次郎, #59), scored 97.05. Three drivers tied on 97.5 and were split by their second runs. Nakagawa was eighth on 97.55, and his other run scored 22.5 — which is what a solo sheet looks like when a driver is prepared to lose one.

The bracket: which battles decided it?

Two of the eight opening battles went to the slower qualifier, and then the seeding stopped mattering: Nakagawa beat Q1, both semi-finals went to the lower-seeded car, and the final was the eighth qualifier against the sixth. The chart also prints every car’s colour so you can pick it out from the bank — a silver S13, a pink S14, one BRZ entered as 紫ピクミン, purple Pikmin. D1 published this round in Japanese only, so the Latin spellings above are our reading of the kanji; the Japanese name and the car number sit alongside so you can match every line against the official chart.

The points after Round 2

Ninth to 16th: Niimura 8, Ishibashi 7, Hayashi 6, Yanagi 5, Sawazaki 4, Kazama 3, Okazaki 2, Shimoda 1. Nothing below 16th scores, which is why that single solo cut is the whole day for most entrants. The top five were all Silvias — S15, S14, S15, S13, S15 — and Tsukamoto’s BRZ in sixth is the only car in the top eight that is neither a Nissan nor a Toyota.

D1’s 2026 NEXT series page publishes the calendar and the organisers’ phone and fax numbers, not a running championship table, so the totals below are ours: Round 1’s official points plus Round 2’s.

That is arithmetic, not a standing: Nakagawa and Miyazaki come out level on 33 and we do not know D1’s tiebreak, so we are not calling either of them the leader. The bigger point is who is missing. Sena Shirakawa, who won Round 1, never appeared on the Mobara sheet; Ren Asami, second at Nikko, did appear and qualified 19th of 30, three places outside the cut. In a series where drivers pick their rounds, two results are not yet a championship.

Where the season went next

Round 1 had opened the series at Nikko Circuit in Tochigi on 14 March, where Shirakawa won from 16th and last in qualifying — that day is in our Rd.1 Nikko report. Two Central rounds are still ahead as of 7 September 2026. Rd.3 comes back to Mobara on Sunday 13 September 2026, this time on the forward layout with a BEST24 chase tournament: ¥19,800 to enter plus ¥2,200 on the morning for the provisional-licence briefing if you hold no D1 licence, ¥1,000 to watch plus ¥1,000 per car to park, entries closing 10 September. Rd.4 goes back to Nikko on Saturday 17 October 2026, entered through FLUKE at ¥19,800 with insurance and tax included; our Nikko Circuit guide explains why you cannot simply turn up and watch there on an ordinary day. Rd.5 closes the series at Mobara on Sunday 8 November.

Entering is where an overseas driver stalls. Mobara runs it in Japanese from end to end: a web reservation form, then the entry sheet by fax or email, then the fee by domestic bank transfer within three days, and no cancellation once the reservation is in. Nikko’s October round goes through FLUKE’s own Japanese pages instead.

All three remaining dates sit on our drift event calendar; D1’s own series table notes that dates may change.