Jump to content
SAU Community

Requirements For Racing In Japan

CrimsonLey

By CrimsonLey,
in Japan

 Share

Recommended Posts

CrimsonLey Rising Star

CrimsonLey

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Apparently I need to pass a test/course at each track to race on it: 100% in Japanese.

'Memebership' typically varies from 30,000JPY a year and races are usually free there afterwards or around 2,000-5,000jpy depending on the track.

Common saftey equipment is necessary.

elrodeo666 Mentor

elrodeo666

Posted
Posted

No not necessarily true..

It will depend on the type of racing you want to do.

e.g doing clubman type events you just pay entry fee , attend drivers meeting and possibly you might have to a physical drive test on short course before being allowed to run full course.

Mainly this is just so you know their rules and flags.

You will be under much scrutiny being a gaijin and will help to be able to speak Japanese or have someone who can translate for you at the very least.

Other options are open drift days, just pay entry and go the hack or with the vast amount of smaller tracks in Japan you can do a private hire for around ,3500yen ~5,000 for 2hr session. For this you will need to become a member of the track club and probably will need an introduction from a member.

A lot of tracks have these open days on their monthly schedule so just a matter of booking in and paying the fee.

A lot of fun !

Best bet try to get friendly with some local Japanese weekend race crew and you'll have no problems getting out having some fun.

Cars are cheap to buy and for a fee can be stored at some tracks.

81gSKy Community Regular

81gSKy

Posted
Posted (edited)

No not necessarily true..

It will depend on the type of racing you want to do.

e.g doing clubman type events you just pay entry fee , attend drivers meeting and possibly you might have to a physical drive test on short course before being allowed to run full course.

Mainly this is just so you know their rules and flags.

You will be under much scrutiny being a gaijin and will help to be able to speak Japanese or have someone who can translate for you at the very least.

Other options are open drift days, just pay entry and go the hack or with the vast amount of smaller tracks in Japan you can do a private hire for around ,3500yen ~5,000 for 2hr session. For this you will need to become a member of the track club and probably will need an introduction from a member.

A lot of tracks have these open days on their monthly schedule so just a matter of booking in and paying the fee.

A lot of fun !

Best bet try to get friendly with some local Japanese weekend race crew and you'll have no problems getting out having some fun.

Cars are cheap to buy and for a fee can be stored at some tracks.

Do you know any tracks in Chubu that store cars at the track? Could be something I want to do if it isnt too expensive.

I'm definitely interested in hitting up Suzuka, Fuji, Tsukuba or Twin Ring Motegi when I go there. Anywhere I can find more information and where to book for track days and car rentals? I did the Nurburgring and can not go to Japan without trying Suzuka.

Edited by 81gSKy
  • 1 year later...
BarbsGTR Enthusiast

BarbsGTR

Posted
Posted

I'm definitely interested in hitting up Suzuka, Fuji, Tsukuba or Twin Ring Motegi when I go there. Anywhere I can find more information and where to book for track days and car rentals? I did the Nurburgring and can not go to Japan without trying Suzuka.

If i could hire a car and do a track day in japan on one of the famous circuits it would be the highlight of my holiday.

If anyone has more information on this that would be great.

Jason

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Murray_Calavera
      HKS stroker kit step 0/1 or HKS GTIII 2530

      By Murray_Calavera · Posted

      @joshuaho96 Hmm considering the drama you've seen/experienced, have you looked into getting a built complete long motor shipped from Australia?  Considering the AUD is basically monopoly money when compared to the USD, at a glance this seems like a good option?
    • Shoota_77
      R32 GTS-t RB30 sedan

      By Shoota_77 · Posted

      Bloody Skylines, they put you through the bloody wringer! Stick at it! Stunning drag strip BTW! Where is it? Can see part of the name on the slip and probably should just Google it!
    • joshuaho96
      HKS stroker kit step 0/1 or HKS GTIII 2530

      By joshuaho96 · Posted

      I mean the other day I had to walk someone through diagnosing why their timing belt was walking off the cam gears. At least one of the issues was a bent tensioner stud. Local mechanics have found runout on the CAS mechanism causing weird failures. I'm also no saint here I've documented some of the things I've had to learn the hard way. Something I discovered recently is that my CA emissions catalytic converters weren't even welded correctly to align the downpipe to the main cat and they tossed the support bracket that goes from the transfer case to the downpipe to support everything there. I spend a lot of time chasing down these decidedly unsexy problems and the net effect is it feels like I never actually get to the original objective (flex fuel, VCAM, oil control, cooling, etc).
    • r32-25t
      HKS stroker kit step 0/1 or HKS GTIII 2530

      By r32-25t · Posted

      At times with how you make everything sound, all I imagine Americans doing when they see a gtr is standing there looking at it and bashing it with a gun like how a caveman would with a club and hoping it fixes itself 
    • joshuaho96
      HKS stroker kit step 0/1 or HKS GTIII 2530

      By joshuaho96 · Posted

      I think this is just a product of how the US market works for this stuff. Shops are expensive and there's no real way of knowing what kind of results you're going to get, people don't really have the institutional knowledge. I have heard too much at this point to really put faith in anybody "full service" except maybe DSport and they aren't really a full service kind of shop. If you go to the right place I have no doubt they'll get it right for you. Some locals have set it up right but the cost really is nuts and even now they're still fighting issues. And you know I'm a crazy person who thinks things like twin scroll, relatively short low-mount cast headers, PCV recirc to intake, recirculating BOV, right-sized for ~400 whp, MAF load, validating all of that to a standard comparable to OEM test programs, etc are relevant. For what it's worth, multiple local owners at this point have been stuck in a perpetual cycle of blowing a motor -> getting someone to rebuild it -> some missed detail causes the bearings to wipe and spin just outside of break-in mileage or drop valves or some other catastrophe -> cycle repeats. I usually only find out about this because I'm perpetually helping random friends with diagnosing car troubles, Skyline or otherwise. The single turbo stuff if I'm honest is mostly secondary, it just doesn't seem to achieve the numbers in the ~2000-3000 rpm region that I would expect given the results I've seen here or in Motive's videos. I don't really know what we're missing here in the US to be causing this. Lots of people like to emphasize the necessity of finishing the project first and foremost, but I'm not made of money and I can't afford to be trashing a 15k+ USD engine build with any regularity. Or spending my relatively limited garage time these days unable to triangulate problems because too much was changed all at once. Also, even if it isn't a catastrophic failure I would consider spending the cost of single turbo conversion with nothing to show for it to be pretty bad. 
×
×
  • Create New...