D1 Grand Prix 2026 Autopolis Results: Sobagiri and Tano Win Rd.7 & 8

Koudai Sobagiri (蕎麦切広大, #31) won D1 Grand Prix 2026 Rd.7 at Autopolis (Oita) on Saturday 24 October 2026, beating Naoki Nakamura (中村直樹, #99) in the final. Yuki Tano (田野結希, #80) won Rd.8 on Sunday 25 October, beating Sobagiri in the final. The official ranking still stops at Rd.6 with Masashi Yokoi (横井昌志, #70) on 130 points; every number here was checked on D1’s official result pages on 26 Oct 2026.

Who won Round 7, and why was the points leader missing?

A D1 Grand Prix weekend is two separate rounds, one per day. Each has its own solo-run qualifying, tansō (単走), and its own tandem tournament, tsuisō (追走). The D1 Grand Prix spectator guide explains the format.

Saturday started with news from the series itself. D1’s X account posted the qualifying order and added that Yokoi was barred from running by a penalty. The official result lists him as DNS. D1 did not give the reason in that post, so we will not guess at one.

Hideyuki Fujino (藤野秀之, #66) topped qualifying with 98.69, ahead of Junya Ishikawa (石川隼也, #33) on 98.59 and Sobagiri on 98.30. Sobagiri then beat Mitsuru Murakami, Hokuto Matsuyama and Yuki Tano to reach the final. Naoki Nakamura beat Tetsuya Kume, Masato Kawabata and then Fujino in the semi-final.

Sobagiri won the final. That gave him 25 tandem points plus 2 for third in qualifying, 27 in all. Nakamura took 21 plus 1, and Fujino 18 plus 4 for top qualifier.

Who won Round 8, and how did Fujiwara reach the semi-final?

Sunday’s scores were the highest of the weekend. Sobagiri topped qualifying with 99.50. Tano was second on 99.08, Daigo Saito (齋藤太吾, #87) third on 98.86 and Yokoi fourth on 98.82. Fujino, Saturday’s top qualifier, finished 30th and missed the Best 16.

Yuta Fujiwara (藤原優汰, #15) was the story of the bracket. He qualified 14th, beat Saito, then beat Kawabata to reach the semi-final. Tano stopped him there, after wins over Koji Yamaguchi and Yumeto Hatanaka. On the other side, Sobagiri beat Ryu Nakamura and then Naoki Nakamura, who had knocked out Yokoi in the Best 8.

Tano beat Sobagiri in the final: 25 tandem points plus 3 for second in qualifying, 28 in all. Sobagiri took 21 plus 4. Yokoi finished fifth for 13 plus 1.

The brackets: which battles are worth rewatching?

D1 publishes results in Japanese. Names below use the English spellings printed on D1’s own bracket sheets, and Q is that day’s qualifying position.

How the judges score a tandem is in how tsuiso battles are judged.

Who leads the championship after Autopolis?

This is the official D1 ranking on d1gp.co.jp, which still counts Rounds 1 to 6 only, as of 26 October 2026.

The table below is our arithmetic, not D1’s. We added the tandem and qualifying points printed on the official Rd.7 and Rd.8 result pages, the same way the official ranking adds them for earlier rounds. Treat it as unofficial until D1 updates its table.

Sobagiri scored 52 points across the weekend. Two rounds remain, both at Odaiba.

What did D1 post on the day?

The series’ own account posted the penalty notice and both winners. The cards show dates in UTC; all three posts were made on the day in Japan time.

Where can you watch the replay?

▶ 2026 D1GP Rd.8 Autopolis, Sunday live stream D1GP MOVIE CHANNEL · official channel click to load from youtube

Saturday’s Rd.7 is a separate stream on the same channel. The commentary is in Japanese.

Next round: the title decider at Odaiba, Tokyo

The season ends with Rd.9 & 10, 2026 TOKYO DRIFT, at the Odaiba special venue in Tokyo on 14–15 November 2026. It is the one D1 Grand Prix round you can reach from central Tokyo by train. Our Odaiba final guide has seat prices and access, and the Ebisu Rd.5 & 6 report shows how the title fight got here. If you were at Autopolis, our Autopolis guide covers what the circuit offers on normal days. Every round is on the event calendar.

Tickets sell only through Lawson Ticket (L-code 38020). D1’s ticket page is in Japanese, each day needs its own ticket, and D1 says there is no same-day sale if advance tickets sell out. That is where most overseas plans stall, and the race weekend is only two days of a Tokyo trip.