Well, welcome to the weekend sports cars, part of the Marshall Pruitt podcast collection,

and brought to you, as always, with the assistance and support of the Justice Brothers

and Toronto motorsports.com. I'm Graham Goodwin, delighted to be joined in this Tokyo hotel room

by my friend and colleague Stephen Kilby after what has

been a spellbinding, exhausting trip to Japan, always someone where Stephen we love to come

and always somewhere that's the tiredness kind of overwhelms you when you arrive while you're here and pretty much for a week or two afterwards.

So if I asked you how you were doing, would you say tired?

Nackard.

Yeah, me too.

Me too.

It's utterly brutal, isn't it?

It is brutal.

But in the best possible way.

It is. It's a fabulous country to visit.

Do encourage anybody has the opportunity to do so.

We're here, of course, for what was the 100th race in the modern FI World Endurance Championship's history at Fuji on Sunday.

Great race it was too. Lots of storylines out of that.

Should we start with the race before we get into news?

Or do you want to go through a couple of other strands first?

I think we should go through the race and the meeting itself,

because it was, that's the big story, isn't it?

Since the last time we did a podcast just after the ELMS weekend at Silverstone.

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