Japan's 200mph Corkscrew - Fuji Speedway - Assetto Corsa 

Wow, I'm honoured that you used my skinpacks for this race! I did wonder why I suddenly had a few 'likes' on Race Department in quick succession - now it's all so clear. Fantastic content as usual, you're a real pleasure to watch.

In terms of danger, old Fuji puts the Monza banking to shame.

What's cool is the banking still exists and you can visit it.

I love how the Rev counter bounces like a classic cable driven one of the era did.

Mr. Riker, how did you make this track? “We made it up.” Should I race my friends on it? “You can’t, don’t even try!”

The level of detail and coverage and perspective shared in these videos is second to none for motorsport and AC mods. Thanks for making great content like this. It's so great to get the history lesson and the gaming content together.

I didn’t even know USAC IndyCar raced at Fuji

Yes another historic circuit documentary

Lol, the mod author took his name from a Star Trek Next Generation character.

Man, I was born just a little late to watch Bobby race much. I loved him as a commentator as he never held back and gave not one care for PC or diplomacy. Great video, like always.

I gotta say, your videos absolutely shine when you pair the racing in-sim with this much history and context from the tracks and cars you're showcasing. Thank you for documenting motorsport in such a interesting way and turning our sims into such cool tools for bringing back tracks and cars from the past that would otherwise only be seen in old pictures!

Man the racers who raced this iteration of Fuji speedway had balls of steel especially going into Daichi corner at 200mph

Watching this, I keep wanting to put Speed Racer music in the background, as the Mach 5 takes the Daiichi perfectly with Racer X close behind :)

Easily one of the best videos, I think, about one of my favorite eras of Japanese motorsport - the 60's to the early '70s. In that vein, Funabashi Circuit would also be fun to feature on the channel, a tight, technical course built in the heart of Tokyo that opened and closed after just two years - long extinct, but equally fascinating in its own right.

I like the old track more than today's Fuji Speedway.

1:55 Have you seen this man in your dreams?

The layout really reminds me of the original Kyalami. Long straight, down into T1, a few sweeping bends up and down, then a long climbing right to finish the lap.

Some say this was the first Mario Kart track ever designed.

if you didnt tell me the history of this circuit i wouldve thought it was a fantasy track from gran turismo

Damn, Fuji was going to be the first track for NASCAR to Japan? As a NASCAR fan I never knew of that lol

The A.I. may be slow, but it can be improved by recording your own racing line. I did a few AI files myself, but it not great enough to release on RaceDepartment

This may have been your best video in my estimation. In 1968 I was 10 years old and had all the bravery of a 10 year old boy and just KNEW I could drive as well as anyone. I read Dan Gurney's columns in Popular Mechanics (I think) and KNEW how easy it was. This video shows how wrong I was and am thankfully I had the career I had. This was GREAT! Thank you SIR!

Really liking the music on this one. Cheers. 👍

Yellow and red " Rislone " decals. Synonymous with Bobby Unser.

I never knew Fuji was originally going to be an oval. Someone needs to make a “If it was finished” track.

Superb history lesson and content thank you all involved!

Dude those guardrails arent gonna be stopping or protecting shit

AWESOME racing! Nice driving, and I really appreciate the history.

I can't help wondering how different motorsports history would have played out had the oval been built, or at least the banking built in a safer/more sensible fashion. Imagine a NASCAR Grand National exhibition race being run there successfully, leading to the launch of a Japanese NASCAR series with tube frame Toyota Crowns and Nissan Cedrics using the V8s from their Century and President big brothers (and matching road cars to homologate them)...

What a track, what a corner and what a superb video! Thank you for showing me an new track I want to try

This is so good, what you do! Extremly entertaining :)

Man, that was great, you put that together so well! I learned a ton from this, love that!

What a track!! amazing!! Great video, didn’t know Jackie won here

Just found this channel and its just too good of an idea. Sometimes videos about racing history can feel detached and distant, but replicating the action of those events in assetto corsa makes them much more real.

Love the vintage Bobby Unser livery

Thanks for suggesting this track. I’m loving it with VRC’s 1999 formula NA. I really appreciate all the history you include in these videos. Fascinating stuff!

Man, your videos are so good and I’ve been loving ur content. You literally got me into sim racing

Outstanding video and fantastic track and car/skins, your quality video output is amazing 👍🏁🍾

One of my all time favorite classic tracks I used to race on rFactor 1. I need to revisit this on AC. Thanks!

Great stuff man!

if you miss the first corner, you will fly to the strastosphere

The “Porknose” is such a fun car to drive. It’s got all the aesthetics of the late sixties with modern reliability.

Great history lesson, well done excellent video as always

Beautiful track, another great report. Clockwise is the way to go, as nobody dies in sim racing.

The start to this race was epic, the hectic starting grid, the cars bouncing and weaving around the bank, and the crash right in front of you. So cinematic!

Classic Fuji Speedway? More like a supersonic track for WipEout ships!

Love this track!

Good work William good... friggin... work.👏👍

Great vid as always, your dedication is faszinating! By the way, I love your intonation, I rly like to listen to you!

Hi Richie. Great video again, specially the history lesson and the great scene shots in the beginning. I'm watching your videos for a long time now (I remember your crash into Bandini with the Ferrari at GPLs Monza back in the days) and I am happy to see you are finally driving a track of mine! I created the original model for 'old lady' GTL, back in 2014. Actually all of the models were already in the this version, whats new in AC is mostly vegetation. GTL wasn't able to handle that much grass ;). To get the elevations right (no 3D scanning, haha) i created a complete isoline model from the landscape around the track, taken from a 60s map of the area. Then I created the roads for the track. The result should have been be the realistic landscape. It is a bit off in sometimes, though. Videos that came up after the track was released show some things aren't correct. But there is always something. There are videos of the GTL track on RU-vid if you want to take a look ;). Keep up the good work and I'm looking forward to seeing you drive and comment my other tracks some day maybe! Unfortunately most are not in AC.

Ok, hear me out. Avus rennen but in 1998 CART indycars.

What actually interests me about Fuji Speedway is that the old layout of the track also hosted the Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix in 1966 and 1967. So far I'm trying to find footages of these races but without any success. maybe someone will find it, because it draws my attention to how the motorcycles have somehow managed to control on the Daiichi banking...

This track with modern f1 would be wild west wild

I follow your channel anyway, but wondered why I'd been recommended a video of yours from May last year, especially when I've never watched anything else Fuji-related as far as I'm aware. I do check on Wikipedia every day to see who's recently departed our world - just a habit I've had since I was about 12 - and, as it happened, Vic Elford died the other day.

Loved the epic intro. I felt like I was in the 60's !

Andre Ribiero is Passed away Rest in Peace

"Still could always throw it away..." The car: Sorry, I missed that one. What was that? 17:30

Fuji was one of the first tracks I downloaded when I first picked up AC. Great track. :)

OWESOME! Fuji was and is a owsome track!

This was one of my favorites to test out newly downloaded cars. Very fun do drive.

After finding your channel, it itches me to rebuild my simulator again.

Looks great

This track is a blast to hot lap. Nice and wide, you can really make the most of it.

That bumb in the right turn after the chicane (next to Coca-Cola bilboard), I use to take (and believe is the best) on the left side of the road. On the right side, the bumb is so big that cars tend to jump / spin. Taking it on the left side of the road is way more safe. And in general, this is not the track where the "ideal line" is the best or quickest. Definitely completely crazy track. I come back to old Fuji often in AC.

I'll be honest This is propably my favourite classic track from what i've seen so far on RU-vid For me it looks way more enjoyable than SPA or the Nurburgring

Glad to see people are still interested in the Toyota 7! It's sadly taken the back seat for now due to work, both in and out of sim racing. Rest assured it will be finished though, alongside a couple other Can-Am cars some people might have already gotten wind of.

This track looks so much fun

Cool race

I’m so happy this channel is growing. I love the historic facts, your commentary and your driving style. Keep it up ❤️

The Daiichi corner is just insane! But looks like a fun track for AC to drive on. 😀

I remember reading the history of the track in GranTurismo, great memories

This track in Assetto Corsa with the late 60s F1 Cars is fantastic in VR I love this track great feature for the uninitiated

I remember spending hours on this track in Rfactor (I think it was). It's one of my favorite circuits period.

Seems like a fun track

Back in the rFactor days, we did a league race here with the F1'71 mod. It was pretty scary.

make it so, number one!

Reviewing the historical footage, its just mind-boggling. The 30 degree banking was never smooth, it always looked like 5-6 flat curves stacked on top of one another to try to make a wide banking corner, and the seams between those looked extremely bumpy and pronounced to be raced on safely. And at the 3/4 of the bank, there was a slight hump, or crest if you will, which must have felt like total loss of grip on all tyres for a split second, and that was taken at at least 130~150mph depending on cars. Even in rain. It was complete madness.

Just reading the massive book about Shadow Racing and people behind it by Pete Lyons. Don Nichols were doing business in Japan with car accessories, mostly Goodyear an Moon products, and had his hands in this Fuji speedway project. And yes, there were not enough funding to do the area flat enough for the oval, so, the consultant Stirling Moss suggested road course instead.

Imagine if Formula 1, Super GT, or WEC racing in this circuit nowdays. Obviously, it was one of great circuits with one of great racing-series indeed.

My god I've never seen a corner this crazy

This would be such an awesome track for Turn of the '70s endurance racing.

In my opinion, these cars are insane to drive, like today

Modern Fuji is actually fun when reversed, it's a shame it isn't actually implemented that way in many games.

Interesting how one could only imagine what racing on such a track would be like after always reading about it, but thanks to modern gaming and a dedicated community, I now know how that dive-in banking plays out in a race, and what made it so dangerous.

If you can see Fuji-san then it will be a good day. Just not a Goodyear, Maybe a Bridgestone or a Dunlop though.

OG FUJI POG

Very nice! During the video I tried to count the engine "cups" thinking: wasn't this car a v8? Pork nose 312.

Another one I have to try! Thanks Jake! I also love that USAC skin pack.

Can't believe this track didn't have SAFER barriers

The Tilke version sucks. Has to be his worst track. Great vid!

Jake not sure if you have it on or off but there’s an option in content manager called new flames textures or something like that, basically makes flames look much more realistic.

Tried this track with Group 5 cars on rFactor, and it's INSANE

speaking of the Lotus turbines that would be cool video subject

I'd be interested in where you found the shape original oval layout. I've never come across any pictures of it and from description of it I always imagined it as a tri oval of the Daytona type

Daiichi is the best corner ever

Ahhh, the Seuppuku Grand Prix

Imagine going through there is a modern F1 car... that would be crazy

Hello What a great video!! Where i can found the panel with position/lap like you. Tanks a lot and continue your wonderfull video

Sad to See The corner today

I think it would be cool to take a stock car around that layout