Fuji Speedway

Fuji Speedway sits in Oyama, Suntō District, at the foot of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture. The lap runs 4.563 kilometres clockwise over 17 turns, climbing and falling between roughly 545 and 585 metres above sea level rather than sitting flat. Its defining feature is the 1.475-kilometre main straight, one of the longest in motorsport, aimed directly at the mountain that gives the track its name and its backdrop on a clear day.

Everything at Fuji is set up by that front straight: cars arrive at TGR Corner (Turn 1) under maximum braking after topping out at huge speed, then work through the technical middle sector past the sponsor-named Coca-Cola Corner and on to 300R, a long, high-speed sweeping right-hander that is one of the circuit's fastest sections and a genuine test of commitment before the lap tightens back up through Dunlop Corner for the run to the line.

Opened in 1966 and rebuilt by Tilke in 2005, Fuji Speedway runs in the shadow of Mount Fuji with one of the longest straights in motorsport — 1.475 km. Toyota’s home circuit and the stage of the World Endurance Championship’s 6 Hours of Fuji and SUPER GT, it would be an Asian anchor with a backdrop no circuit on earth can match: a real track, a real split, an hour from Tokyo.

A weekend beneath Japan’s sacred mountain: the 1.475 km straight at full noise, the technical 100R and Dunlop, then the long sweepers home — bookended by Hakone’s hot springs and Tokyo after dark.

Fuji was completed as a purpose-built road course in December 1965 and held its first event, an All-Japan Motorcycle Clubman race, in January 1966. It hosted the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix in 1976–77 and again in 2007–08, and the FIA World Sportscar Championship through the 1980s. Today it is the long-running home of Super GT, Japan's premier GT series, and hosts the FIA World Endurance Championship's 6 Hours of Fuji — a track with more than half a century of Japanese motorsport history running through it.

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