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Past Gas

S2 Ep2: The Golden Era of JDM: Japanese Grand Prix

Past Gas

Donut Media

Leisure, Comedy, History, Automotive

4.97.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Past Gas, we're diving into the first ever Japanese Gran Prix, and how it shaped motorsport from that day on. How did Japan's cars do against Europe's elite and experienced Formula teams? Which companies competed? And what did they learn from the first Gran Prix that they took into development for road cars? All that and more in this episode!

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regulated by the financial conduct authority race day 1963 it was before dawn outside Suzuki Japan, and traffic had already bottlenecked

0:58.1

for miles in every direction. Coaches had been charted from surrounding towns, and teenagers

1:03.6

pedaled in on bicycles. Everyone weaved together into a crowd with the restless energy

1:09.5

of a young generation catching its

1:11.3

first glimpse of a new country.

1:15.0

What echoed over the fields was not the roar of engines, not yet, but the soft rising

1:20.2

hum of 200,000 voices converging on a single location for a weekend like no other. And when the engines did fire up, they were something to behold.

1:35.1

Lotuses, Porsches, and Aston Martins, the finest sports cars Europe had to offer,

1:40.4

all lined up on a brand new circuit carved out of the mountainous countryside of the My Prefecture.

1:46.8

None of what was taking place, the crowds, the energy, the sheer numbers, would have seemed possible just a decade earlier.

1:55.5

Japan had undergone a radical transformation in the years following World War II,

1:59.9

and it was during that transformation

2:01.1

that a new industry emerged, carrying with it enormous promise.

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