Sendai Hi-Land Raceway was a 2.504miles motor racing circuit in 12 Hayasaka, Shinkawa, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.[1]
In the 1990s, Sendai hosted rounds of the Japanese Touring Car Championship and Japanese Grand Touring Championship. It also hosted All-Japan Formula Three Championship races until 2007.
On October 17, 2010, the Japanese mountain race track hosted the sixth race in the 2010 Super Taikyu Endurance Series.[2]
The raceway was damaged by earthquake in 2011 until it was closed in September 2014. As of today the former raceway is now a solar-power park.
1995 action film Thunderbolt has a car racing scene filmed at Sendai.
The fastest official race lap records at the Sendai Hi-Land Raceway are listed as:
Category | Time | Driver | Vehicle | Event |
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Full Circuit: 4.030 km (1996–2014)[3] | ||||
1:38.080[4] | 2007 Sendai Japanese F3 round | |||
1:46.551[5] | 2007 1st Sendai Formula Toyota round | |||
1:47.791[6] | 1996 HiLand GT Championship | |||
Original Circuit: 3.956 km (1986–1995) | ||||
1:43.618[7] | 1994 Sendai Japanese F3 round | |||
1:46.915[8] | 1991 Sendai JTCC round | |||
1:49.074[9] | 1995 HiLand GT&F3 Race | |||