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Originally Posted by Purist
MV, it's not practical to turn Fuji into a "Daytona of the East", not by a long shot. (Another oval of that size and with that level of banking will NEVER be built for actual racing again.) The old banking is gone. When Toyota redid Fuji for F1, not a single corner was left untouched. And it's not really a matter of Toyota lacking capacity, but rather, that it's not financially prudent to completely redo Fuji all over again.
ISC doesn't have experience building ovals in Fuji-esque terrain. Also, if they redid it with a focus on the oval, and somehow flattened the place out, the infield road course would be crap, and nobody but NASCAR would bother to race there anymore, thus defeating the purpose of the project anyway.
Also, it rains too often at Fuji to make a straight oval worthwhile.
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Okay, but there's is a thing called "Make the impossible, possible" mantra. Of course, it would need a lot of financial backing, research and engineering to turn Fuji into a roval.
Then again, Fuji is not viable to redesign at the current economic climate. So maybe, the only option left is at Motegi.