Daigo Saito

Daigo Saito
Nationality	Japan
Born	March 7, 1980 (1980-03-07) (age 31) Saitama
2011 D1 Grand Prix
Debut season	2004
Current team	Team 22
Wins	1
Best finish	1st in 2008
Previous series
2006	D1 Street Legal

Daigo Saito (斎藤太吾, Saito Daigo^?, 7 March 1980, Saitama) is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Fnatz Professional Garage.

From an early age he was into motorbikes as his father was, and got his motorcycle license at 16. One night when he was out riding with his friends they stumbled upon a drift meeting in the hills of Karuizawa, there he saw a white Mercedes-Benz saloon drifting. From then on he wanted to drift himself and he wanted to drift a saloon. As soon as he was 18 he got his drivers license, his father did not want him to drift so bought him a Mini Cooper as his first car. At this time he did not know that it would not be a good car to drift so he tried, and ended up writing it off. He then bought a Nissan Silvia S13 without asking his parents and set about practicing, his first practice session lasted 36 hours only stopping for food and fuel. He learned a lot from this first practice session though he totalled the Nissan Silvia S13 a couple of weeks later.

In 2005, Saito won the title for privateers

Unlike most D1 drivers his work is not connected to his drifting, as he lives and works at a nursery school, though he is mainly in charge of the animals he is also in charge of driving the bus when the children go on outings.

He started competing in the D1 Grand Prix in the third round of the 2004 season in his red Toyota Mark II JZX90 since then he has improved steadily, winning the championship in 2008.

Complete Drifting Results

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D1 Grand Prix

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Position	Points
2004		Toyota Mark II JZX90	IRW	SGO	EBS TAN	APS TAN	ODB DNQ	EBS DNQ	TKB 16		-	0
2005		Toyota Mark II JZX90	IRW	ODB DNQ	SGO TAN	APS DNQ	EBS DNQ	FUJ DNQ	TKB 16		32	1
2006		Toyota Mark II JZX90	IRW	SGO 5	FUJ 16	APS 16	EBS 16	SUZ 16	FUJ TAN		14	24
		Toyota Chaser JZX100								IRW 9
2007		Toyota Mark II JZX90	EBS 15	FUJ 7	SUZ TAN						7	41
		Toyota Mark II JZX100				SGO TAN	EBS 6	APS 6	FUJ 6
2008	Team 22	Toyota Mark II JZX100	EBS 14	FUJ 2	SUZ 4	OKY 4	APS 1	EBS	FUJ		1	85

D1 Street Legal

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Position	Points
2006		Toyota Chaser JZX100	SEK	EBS TSU	SGO 8	FUJ 5	APS 6	EBS TSU	SEK	10	31

Source

• JDM Option
• D1 Grand Prix

External links

• D1 Supporter profile
• D1 Supporter profile (D1SL)
• Daigo Saito official web site

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Name	Saito, Daigo
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Date of birth	7 March 1980
Place of birth	Saitama
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