Virtual D1 turns sim racers into real drivers. The bridge between gaming and motorsport, a live proving ground where virtual talent earns a real car, real coverage and a real audience. For a tech brand or investor, it's a brand-new category to own.
The Esports Series
Virtual D1 (VD1) is our D1NZ Virtual Drifting esports championship, 200+ entries battling online for the ultimate prize: driving the real-life VD1 Supra at a D1NZ event. And it's not just screens. Hundreds of people tried the sims at events like Pukekohe and Baypark, putting themselves in the seat. Tech is well and truly live in motorsport, and that's the sell.
The Logitech G Virtual D1 zone, live at D1NZ, where hundreds of fans get hands-on every event.
Built for Tech
Virtual D1 is purpose-built for tech brands and investors who want more than a logo. It's a real product, a first-party audience and an innovation story that travels.
A full Logitech G sim-racing championship, broadcast-ready, competitive and authentic. Tech is the hero, not the backdrop.
Hundreds of registered, engaged, tech-native entrants. A direct, ownable line to the exact demographic tech brands fight to reach.
Virtual talent earns a real-world drive in the VD1 Supra. A live, physical proof of concept that turns heads and earns coverage.
No one owns sim-to-real drifting in this market yet. Title it now and grow with it, from 2027 into a global Drift GP future.
The Audience
The people who love motorsport are the same people who game, stream and spend on the latest tech. You don't have to take our word for it. Virtual D1 is living proof: they didn't just watch, hundreds registered to compete on sims and hundreds put themselves in the rig.
They game their way to the grid. A fanbase fluent in controllers, rigs and esports, with hundreds already competing on our sims.
A 7.9M-view audience that lives on YouTube, TikTok and livestream. They consume motorsport exactly where tech brands want to reach them.
Young, 25 to 34 and high-intent. The demographic that buys the new device, the new peripheral and the new platform first.
Car culture is a research-and-buy culture. Builds, mods, gear and devices: they compare, they upgrade, they spend.
For a tech brand, this isn't a new audience to win over. It's your audience, already here and already engaged.
Anyone can pick up the wheel. The fastest earn a real drive in the A80.9. That's the hook that turns viewers into players, and players into a brand's audience.
Real Tech, Real Cars, Real Reach
The A80.9, a Toyota Supra A80 fitted with an A90 Rocket Bunny drift front, built in public, in our colours, for the champion to actually drive.
The real VD1 car runs live at D1NZ events, sim-to-track in front of thousands. The virtual story, made physical at the track.
We teach fans the craft, car control, racing lines and angle, turning sim skill into genuine real-world drifting ability.
D1NZ pros mentor, coach and battle the VD1 field, real champions guiding the next generation from screen to track.
Sim-to-track activations, ride-alongs and live motorsport experiences that immerse fans in the real thing at every D1NZ event.
The public build, the battles and the live runs fuel a YouTube series and always-on social, carrying your name far beyond the gate.
Put your brand's name on New Zealand's Virtual Drift Championship. Not just naming rights across a series with hundreds of registrations and hundreds sampling on-site, but the live VD1 car track run-down and extensive coverage across the entire real-world D1NZ championship, a 7.9M-view platform.
Sim to Real
Let's talk about putting your brand at the heart of where tech meets reality.
