Length: 4,563 km
Number of laps: 67 (305,721 km)
Number of turns: 11 (left: 4) (right: 7)
Speed: 330 Km / h
start line: 0 m
downforce: medium
With 4.563 km long, the revamped Fuji Speedway reopened its doors in April 2005 and in 2007 will become in the new stage of the Grand Prix.
circuit owned by Toyota, is situated at the foot of Mount Fuji as its 4.359 km length was hosted the final race of the 1976 season.
At the Grand Prix in the rain marked the victory went to the Mario Andretti Lotus Ford while third place was enough for James Hunt to win the world title at the wheel of his McLaren Ford with just one point ahead of Niki Lauda, \u200b\u200bwho was a victim of the conditions and left in that race.
The race returned to Fuji in 1977. Hunt won his last World Cup victory in Formula One with McLaren, but an accident which were involved Gilles Villeneuve and Ronnie Peterson finished killing two bystanders and led the race disappeared from the calendar.
The Japanese Grand Prix will be contested again in 1987, but at the Suzuka circuit owned by Honda, where he has played since then and until 2006.
With the participation of Hermann Tilke in the refurbishment of Fuji, the circuit was closed to competition in 2003 before reopening two years later. In 2007, the race organizers hope to gather some 280 000 spectators over the weekend the Grand Prix.
past winners
1977: J. Hunt (McLaren)
1976: M. Andretti (Lotus)
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