Sendai Hi-Land Raceway was a motor racing circuit in 12 Hayasaka, Shinkawa, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
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.
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.
Lap records
The fastest official race lap records at the Sendai Hi-Land Raceway are listed as:
CategoryTimeDriverVehicleEvent Full Circuit (1996–2014): Formula Three 1:38.080 Hiroaki Ishiura Dallara F307 2007 Sendai Japanese F3 round Formula Toyota 1:46.551 Takuto Iguchi Tom's FT30 2007 1st Sendai Formula Toyota round GT1 1:47.791 Naoki Hattori McLaren F1 GTR 1996 HiLand GT Championship Super Touring 1:51.041 Naoki Hattori Honda Accord 1996 Sendai JTCC round Original Circuit (1986–1995): Formula Three 1:43.618 Michael Krumm TOM'S 034F 1994 Sendai Japanese F3 round Group A 1:46.915 Kazuyoshi Hoshino Nissan Skyline GT-R BNR32 1991 Sendai JTCC round GT1 1:49.074 Michael Krumm Toyota Supra 1995 HiLand GT&F3 Race Super Touring 1:49.806 Joachim Winkelhock BMW 318i 1995 Sendai JTCC round
References
External links Sendai Hi-Land Raceway Official site (Japanese)