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Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix History
History - Facts - Winners - Schedule - Circuits
The history began in 1976, the first Japanese Grand Prix was held at the Fuji Speedway located 40 miles west of Yokohama.
In 1977 due to an accident between Gilles Villeneuve and Ronnie Peterson, and the death of a marshal by Villenueve’s Ferrari, the race was out of schedule for ten years.
After those years in 1987 the Formula 1 was carried again to Japan but this time was at the Suzuka Circuit in Nagoya, the one that was designed by Dutchman John Hugenholtz, and belongs to Honda. Actually Honda at the beginning took this race track to make tests.
There were too many important facts on this trace, as Nigel Mansell crashed his Williams-Honda in practice. Also this race track will be remembered for the legendary feud between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna.
One of the most memorably duel on this track was between Michael Schumacher and Mika Hakkinen, and in 2000 Schumacher won the first World title for Ferrari.
On 2003 Schumacher tried to pass the record held by Juan Manuel Fangio, and also he wanted to get his sixth World Championship.
The Japanese Grand Prix has been known as excited and controversial event, and the reason is that, it has seen a big number of Championship crowns being won and lost.
Also it is one of the most loved races in the Formula One season, but in 2004 the Brazilian Grand Prix replaced the Japanese as the last race of the season.
Suzuka Race Track
Suzuka race track was first built as a test track for Honda motorcycles in 1962 then it became the cradle for Formula one Grand Prix since 1987. Before that time, the first Japanese race took place at the Mount Fuji circuit in 1976, Briton James Hunt took the third position to win the World Championship, and Mario Andretti was the winner of the race. 10 years afterwards, and due to a crash in Gilles Villenueve in 1977, the Formula 1 event returned to Japan.
Suzuka race track is one of the oldest and most famous circuits in Japan and it is also considered a test of driver’ skills, its shape is similar to the number 8 layout. The Japanese Grand Prix has decided the driver’s championship nine times in these grounds. Definitely, it has a long history of many important races and also some of the best drivers have participated in the circuit racing.
The Suzuka race track offers long fast corners, 310kph straights and short testing curves. The course is considered technically challenging and usually produces the highest average engine speed over a lap. Suzuka’s length is 3.644 miles and it is a permanent road circuit, clockwise. The spectators’ capacity is 100,000 general admission.
Also, Suzuka circuit holds other events as the Suzuka 8 hours for motorcycles since 1978, the World Championship, and the Japanese Road Racing Grand Prix.
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