D1 Grand Prix 2026 Ebisu Results: Yokoi Wins Rd.5 and Rd.6

Masashi Yokoi (横井昌志, #70) won both D1 Grand Prix 2026 rounds at Ebisu Circuit (Fukushima): Rd.5 on a wet Saturday, 26 September 2026, over Ryu Nakamura (中村龍, #76), and Rd.6 on a dry Sunday, 27 September, over Tetsuya Kume (粂哲也, #9). Koudai Sobagiri (蕎麦切広大, #31) topped qualifying on both days. The official ranking still shows Rounds 1 to 4 (Yokoi 79, Naoki Nakamura 74, Sobagiri 73); every number here was checked on D1’s official result pages on 28 Sep 2026.

Who won Round 5, and how?

A D1 Grand Prix weekend is two separate rounds, one a day, each with its own solo-run qualifying and its own tandem tournament. Both ran on the Nishi course; the D1 Grand Prix spectator guide explains the format.

Saturday was wet. Because of that, D1 picked the tandem field group by group rather than purely on score, so the qualifying order is not strictly highest to lowest. Sobagiri scored 91.14 to top the solo runs, tansō (単走), ahead of Yuki Tano (田野結希, #80) on 90.89 and Hideyuki Fujino (藤野秀之, #66) on 90.41. Yokoi qualified fifth on 89.77.

In the tandems, tsuisō (追走), Yokoi beat Kazutaka Yanagi (栁和孝, #22), then Naoki Nakamura (中村直樹, #99), then Sobagiri in the semi-final. On the other side, Ryu Nakamura came from 11th: he beat Kojiro Mekuwa (目桑宏次郎, #79), Yoshichika Tamagawa (玉川艶哉, #12) and Hokuto Matsuyama (松山北斗, #77). The official result adds one line about the final: the rear tyre came off Ryu Nakamura’s car, his running was stopped, and he was ruled the loser. Yokoi took 25 points. Ryu Nakamura got 21, Sobagiri 18 plus 4 for top qualifier, and Matsuyama 16.

Who won Round 6, and why did third place score nothing?

Sunday was dry, and the scores jumped. Sobagiri again topped the solo runs, this time with 98.44, the best score of the weekend. Naoki Nakamura was second on 98.00 and Kenshiro Wada (和田賢志郎, #81) third on 96.95. Yokoi was fourth on 96.65.

Yokoi beat Ryu Nakamura, Matsuyama and Tamagawa to reach the final. Kume, who qualified 11th, beat Mekuwa, Wada and then Naoki Nakamura in the semi-final. Yokoi won the final for his second win of the weekend: 25 points plus 1 for fourth in qualifying. Kume took 21.

Naoki Nakamura was classified third, but the official result gives him 0 points for the whole round, solo-run points included. The official note cites D1 regulation annex D1-13 because a tyre bead came off. His 3 qualifying bonus points went to nobody else. Sobagiri, fifth in the tournament, scored 13 plus 4.

The brackets: which battles are worth rewatching?

D1 publishes results in Japanese. The spellings below are the usual English ones, and Q is the qualifying position for that day.

Who leads the championship after Round 6?

This is the official ranking on d1gp.co.jp as it stood on 28 September 2026. It still covers only Rounds 1 to 4, so treat it as official standings through Rd.4.

The next table is our arithmetic, not an official table. We added the Rd.5 and Rd.6 points from the official result pages (tandem points plus solo-run bonus) to the official Rd.4 totals. The official ranking will confirm the order when D1 updates it.

D1 also keeps a separate solo-run ranking. Sobagiri scored the maximum 28 on both days, which by the same arithmetic would take him from 67 to 123. How D1’s scoring works is in how tsuiso battles are judged.

What did D1 post on the day?

The series’ own account posted the Sunday result with a podium photo. The card shows the date in UTC. In Japan it was 18:04 on Sunday 27 September.

Where can you watch the replay?

▶ 2026 D1GP Rd.6 Ebisu — Sunday live stream D1GP MOVIE CHANNEL · official channel click to load from youtube

Saturday’s wet Round 5 is a separate stream on the same channel. The commentary is in Japanese.

Next round: dates, tickets and the Tokyo final

The next D1 Grand Prix weekend is Rd.7 & 8 at Autopolis (Oita) on 24–25 October 2026. General sales, including overseas sales, open on 1 October at 10:00 Japan time: ¥5,500 per day in advance (¥7,500 on the day) or ¥9,900 for both days. You can also watch Friday practice from the final-corner stand for ¥1,500 at the gate. Our Autopolis guide covers the circuit.

The title is decided after that, at Rd.9 & 10 in Odaiba, Tokyo, on 14–15 November 2026. The official round page lists tickets as planned for mid-October, with no prices yet. Our Odaiba final guide has the 2025 prices and the train access. The D1 Lights Ebisu report covers the support series at this circuit, and the Ebisu tickets guide shows how this weekend was sold. All dates are on the event calendar.