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Key facts
- Location
- Oyama , Suntō District , Shizuoka , Japan
- Capacity
- 110,000
- Owner
- Toyota Motor (2000–present), Mitsubishi Estate (1965–2000)
- Operator
- Fuji Motorsports Forest, Inc. (via Fuji International Speedway Co., Ltd.)
- Opened
- January 1966 ; 60 years ago ( 1966-01 ) , Re-opened: April 2005 ; 21 years ago ( 2005-04 )
- Closed
- September 2003 ; 22 years ago ( 2003-09 )
- Website
- https://www.fsw.tv/ , https://www.fsw.tv/en/
- Length
- 4.563 km (2.835 mi)
- Race lap record
- 1:18.426 ( Felipe Massa , Ferrari F2008 , 2008 , F1 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- motorsport racing track
- Named after
- Mount Fuji
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Oyama
- Legal form
- kabushiki gaisha
- Official website
- www.fsw.tv
- Image
- Safety car 2024 WEC Fuji.jpg
- Length
- 4.563
- Significant event
- Japanese Grand Prix
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- Commons gallery
- Fuji Speedway
- Commons category
- Fuji Speedway
- inception
- 1963-12-19
- webcam page URL
- www.fsw.tv/other/livecamera.html
- date of official opening
- 1966-01-03
- social media followers
- 12700
- used by
- Formula One
- short name
- Fuji
- occupant
- 2020 Summer Olympics
- native label
- 富士スピードウェイ
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Encyclopedic overview
Fuji Speedway (富士スピードウェイ, Fuji Supīdowei) is a motorsport race track standing in the eastern foothills of Mount Fuji, in Oyama, Suntō District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Originally conceived as an American-style superspeedway, it was completed as a road course and opened in January 1966.
In 1976, Fuji Speedway hosted the first-ever Formula One race in Japan. In the 1980s, the track was used for the FIA World Sportscar Championship and national racing. For decades, Fuji Speedway was owned by Mitsubishi Estate, until it was acquired by Toyota Motor in 2000. The circuit hosted the Formula One 2007 Japanese Grand Prix after an absence of nearly 30 years, replacing the Suzuka Circuit owned by Honda. After Fuji Speedway hosted the 2008 race, the Japanese Grand Prix returned to Suzuka for races from 2009 onward. The Super GT Fuji 500 km race is held at the racetrack on Golden Week.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fuji Speedway” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.