Initiative Turns the Tide of Development

In the mid-1980s, when Honda had finally emerged from a period of heated competition with rival Yamaha, the Motorcycle Sales Division at Honda's head office was examining a forward-looking project tentatively known as "Motor Gelände," from the German term for "ski slope."... Read more ...



Based on Twin Ring Motegi's conical design, a massive amount of work was performed in order to level the hills and raise the ground by as much as 65 meters. Concurrently, the project's environmental impact was carefully studied and 65 percent of the trees on the site were preserved as a means of mitigating the environment.
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