Fuji Speedway Corporation was established in 1963, as Japan NASCAR Corporation. At first, the circuit was planned to hold a NASCAR race in Japan. Therefore, the track was originally designed to be as a 4 km 30 high-banke superspeedway,but there was not enough money to complete the project and only one of the bankings was ever finished. It seems the necessary groundworks turned out more difficult than expected.Mitsubishi Estate Co. invested in the circuit and took the management in October 1965. A new part of track was built to counteract the problem and the resultant 6 km course proved more successful. Initially the course was designed to be run anti-clockwise but there were several huge crashes at the banking and a number of deaths, so it was quickly decided to reverse the direction of racing and/or use a shortcut to spare the banking.Even this failed to prevent further carnage. The banking was so horrific, due to the fact that the drivers went over a blind crest at up to 300km/h and dropped into the banking at the end of the main straight, as Vic Elford stated, and not climb upthe banking, as at other tracks as Daytona, Monthlery, etc..Dispite there were many brave Japanese drivers there were not too many with great skill and the death toll from that bend was still horrendous. This made Fuji Speedway one of the most dangerous tracks worldwide.In 1974 the banking was abandoned and the track was redesigned to host fast international racing series like Formula 1. Despite being out of use for over three decades, a big part of the circuit's banked portion is still in existence,albeit in a decaying state. It is even still visible on Google earth's satellite pictures.In 2008 our very first track, Fuji70 V1.0 was released. Since then we learned alot and came across new footage and pictures we decided to build it a second time. The ground surface was modeled on realistic isoline model, [url]http://www.nogripracing.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=123147[/url] based on a contemporary topographic map of the area. Naming the track "1968" can t be seen as a precise date - the track combines various features from the early times of Fuji Speedway, as the footage made it possible.
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