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Motorsports museum in Shizuoka, Japan
Fuji Motorsports Museum
富士モータースポーツミュージアム
Established7 October 2022; 2 years ago (2022-10-07)
LocationOyama, Shizuoka, Japan
Coordinates35°22′04″N 138°55′07″E / 35.367855°N 138.91848°E / 35.367855; 138.91848
TypeMotorsports museum
CollectionsRacing automobiles
Collection sizeAbout 40 vehicles
OwnerToyota Fudosan [ja] (owner), Toyota Motor Company (project owner)
Websitefuji-motorsports-museum.jp/en/

The Fuji Motorsports Museum (富士モータースポーツミュージアム) is a motorsports museum located in the Fuji Speedway Hotel, on the west side of Fuji Speedway, in Oyama, Suntō District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It opened in 2022.

Overview

The museum aims to introduce the history of motorsports for over 130 years, including roughly 40 exhibits systematically presented.

The museum is a permanent exhibition facitlity housed in the Fuji Speedway Hotel building, located right next to Fuji Speedway, one of the largest racing circuits in Japan. The museum occupies the first and second floors of the hotel building. The museum, hotel and circuit together make up "Fuji Motorsports Forest", a regional development project promoted by Toyota Motor Comnapny and Fuji Speedway. The hotel itself is owned by Toyota Fudosan [ja], a real-estate company of Toyota Group, and operated by Hyatt Hotels & Resorts as one of The Unbound Collection by Hyatt Hotels.

Collection

Almost all of the collection are racing automobiles. In addition, there are some exhibits of motorsports related materials to tell the thoughts of the creators of the vehicles.

Although the museum is funded by the Toyota Group and under the supervision of the Toyota Automobile Museum, the exhibits are not limited to the Toyota's automobiles. The museum follows the same policy as the Toyota Automobile Museum (similar to the Volkswagen Group's ZeitHaus in the Autostadt, Germany), displaying automobiles of the various manufacturers with cooperation of 10 Japanese and foreign automobile companies, and other cooperating organizations.

Exhibit cooperating companies/organizations

List of vehicles (partial)

Exhibit vehicles are scheduled to be replaced irregularly.

Manufacturer Model Year Notable driver(s) Notes
Panhard et Levassor Type B2 1899 -
Ford 999 1902 Henry Ford, Barney Oldfield
Stutz Bearcat Series F 1914 -
Sunbeam Grand Prix 1922 Kenelm Lee Guinness 1922 French Grand Prix, #16.
Bugatti Type 35B 1926 -
Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Gran Sport 1930 -
Mercedes-Benz W25 1934 Manfred von Brauchitsch 1934 Eifelrennen winner; The beginning of the "Silver Arrows".
Cisitalia 202C 1947 - 1948 Mille Miglia.
Toyota Toyopet Racer 1951 -
Nissan Datsun 210 1958 Yoshitane Oya, Allan Gibbons, Yonekichi Minawa Sakura-go (桜号). 1958 Round Australia Rally, #14.
Honda RC162 1961 Kunimitsu Takahashi Racing motorcycle. 1961 West German Grand Prix (250 cc) winner; First ever Grand Prix motorcycle race win for Japanese riders.
Hino Contessa 900 1961 Yoshiji Tachihara 1963 Japanese Grand Prix - CIII Class winner.
Porsche 904 Carrera GTS 1964 Antonio Pucci, Colin Davis 1964 Targa Florio winner.
Honda RA272 1965 Richie Ginther 1965 Mexican Grand Prix winner; First ever Formula One race win for Japanese manufacturers.
Toyota 7 (474S) 1969 Minoru Kawai [ja] 1969 Japan Can-Am winner.
Nissan R382 1969 Kunimitsu Takahashi, Kenji Tohira 1969 Japanese Grand Prix, #23.
Mitsubishi Lancer 1600GSR 1974 Joginder Singh, David Doig 1974 Safari Rally winner.
Nissan Violet GT 1981 Shekhar Mehta
Mike Doughty
1981 Safari Rally winner.
Mooncraft Footwork Mooncraft Special 7 1987 Aguri Suzuki March-Yamaha 85J with the "MCS" (Mooncraft Special) body. 1987 Fuji Grand Champion Series, #55.
Mazda 787B 1991 Volker Weidler, Johnny Herbert, Bertrand Gachot 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans overall winner; First ever 24 Hours of Le Mans overall win for Japanese manufacturers.
All American Racers Eagle MkIII 1993 Juan Manuel Fangio II 1993 IMSA GTP champion.
Toyota Celica GT-Four ST185 1993 Juha Kankkunen, Nicky Grist 1993 Australian Rally winner.
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution III 1995 Kenneth Eriksson, Staffan Parmander [fr] 1995 Australian Rally winner.
Subaru Impreza 555 1996 Colin McRae, Derek Ringer 1996 Acropolis Rally winner.
Nissan Pennzoil Nismo Skyline GT-R 1998 Masami Kageyama, Érik Comas 1998 JGTC champion (GT500 class).
Lola B2/00 2002 Cristiano da Matta 2002 CART champion.
Toyota Camry 2008 Kyle Busch 2008 Kobalt Tools 500 winner; First ever NASCAR premier series race win for Japanese manufacturers.
Toyota TF109 2009 Kamui Kobayashi 2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, #10.
Toyota GR Supra 2019 Nobuteru Taniguchi Drifting custom car, built by HKS.

Notes:

  • Highly detailed replica built by each automobile manufacturer.

References

  1. ^ "Concept". Fuji Motorsports Museum. 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  2. ^ "About". Fuji Motorsports Forest. 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-27.

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