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Fuji Speedway

At the foot of Mt. Fuji: 4.563 km of Hermann Tilke's 2005 redesign, where one of motorsport's longest main straights, nearly 1.475 km, fires the cars into the Turn 1 braking zone before a tight, technical final sector closes the lap.

Length
4.563 km
2.835 mi
Turns
16
Direction
Clockwise
In use
2005-present

Fuji Speedway

Fuji Speedway sits at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Oyama, Shizuoka Prefecture, and first opened for racing in 1966. The original circuit famously included a steep banked section; after Toyota took ownership the track was substantially redesigned by Hermann Tilke and reopened in 2005 as the modern Grand Prix circuit. That layout runs clockwise over 2.835 mi (4.563 km) and sixteen turns, climbing and falling around the foothills of the mountain.

The main straight and Turn 1

Fuji’s identity is its main straight: at roughly 1.475 km (0.917 mi), one of the longest in motorsport. Cars reach their highest speed of the lap before braking hard for the tight right-hander at Turn 1, now carrying Toyota Gazoo Racing (TGR) branding. It is the circuit’s marquee overtaking zone and its most common accident spot, where a clean exit from the final corner pays off all the way down the front straight.

100R and the fast opening

The early part of the lap flows downhill through the off-camber Coca-Cola Corner and into 100R, a fast, sweeping corner of roughly 100-metre radius that is one of the most respected on the circuit and near-flat in a high-downforce car. The high-speed 300R sweep follows before the lap slows for the infield.

The technical final sector

Where the long straight is all bravery, the closing sequence is all precision: a slow, technical infield through the sponsor-named GR Supra and Dunlop corners winds toward the uphill Panasonic Corner, the medium-speed final right-hander that releases the cars back onto the main straight to begin it all again.

Corner-by-corner

  • T1

    TGR Corner

    • Right

    A tight right-hand corner reached under heavy braking from top speed at the end of the ~1.475 km main straight; the circuit's marquee braking zone and prime overtaking spot, currently carrying TGR (Toyota Gazoo Racing) signage.

    Turn 1 is where Fuji's defining feature pays off: cars arrive at their highest speed of the lap after nearly a mile and a half flat out, then brake hard for a tight right-hander. It is the most common accident spot on the circuit and the scene of the most dramatic passes, rewarding late braking and punishing any car that arrives with cold tyres or brakes.

  • T2

    Turn 2

    • Right

    A quick kink following Turn 1, taken at speed as the track begins to flow downhill toward the Coca-Cola Corner.

  • T3

    Coca-Cola Corner

    • Left

    A downhill, off-camber corner (the 80R) closing the opening complex and feeding the run toward 100R.

  • T4

    100R

    • Right
    • ~100 m radius

    A fast, sweeping ~100-metre-radius corner taken on a downhill approach, one of the most respected corners on the circuit and near-flat in high-downforce cars.

  • T5

    Turn 5

    • Right

    A medium-speed corner continuing out of the 100R section toward the slower infield.

  • T6

    Turn 6

    • Left

    A medium-speed corner on the descent toward the slower part of the lap.

  • T7

    Turn 7

    • Left

    A corner linking the descent to the 300R sweep.

  • T8

    300R

    • Right
    • ~300 m radius

    A long, high-speed right-hand sweep of roughly 300-metre radius taken at or near full throttle.

  • T9

    Turn 9

    • Right

    A corner bridging the 300R sweep and the slow technical infield.

  • T10

    Turn 10

    • Right

    A sharp right-hander at the far end of the high-speed section, turning the lap back toward the slow technical infield that closes the lap.

  • T11

    GR Supra Corner

    • Left

    A tight technical corner (the 25R) opening the slow infield sequence that closes the lap, currently carrying GR Supra signage.

  • T12

    Turn 12

    • Right

    A slow corner in the technical infield near the highest point of the circuit.

  • T13

    Dunlop Corner

    • Right

    A tight, off-camber corner (the 15R) in the slow final-sector infield, marked by the Dunlop bridge and branding.

  • T14

    Turn 14

    • Left

    A corner in the flowing close of the technical final sector feeding the final-corner sequence.

  • T15

    Turn 15

    • Left

    A very tight, off-camber left-hander with a blind apex in the final-sector infield, demanding gentle throttle on exit before the final corner.

  • T16

    Panasonic Corner

    • Right
    • ~12 m radius

    The uphill final corner (the 12R), a medium-speed right-hander with a blind turn-in that closes the technical infield and releases the cars onto the ~1.475 km main straight; a clean exit is critical to the entire following straight.

    Panasonic is the corner that sets up Fuji's signature straight. After a slow, technical infield sequence that closes the lap, drivers climb to this blind, medium-speed right-hander and must nail the exit, because what follows is one of the longest main straights in motorsport: nearly a mile and a half to the Turn 1 braking zone, where any exit speed gained here is multiplied all the way down the front straight.