page_title: Suzuka Circuit
section_title: 130R
hierarchical_section_title: Suzuka Circuit / 130R
caption_attribution_description: First few corners and the Ferris wheel at the Suzuka Circuit, Japan
context_page_description: Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka Circuit for short, is a motorsport race track in Ino, Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture, Japan and operated by Mobilityland Corporation, the subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd..
context_section_description: Following two bad accidents in 2002 and 2003, safety has been a concern at the circuit's 130R corner. 130R is a 130 metres (427 ft) radius turn starting past the Crossover. 130R has been compared to Spa's Eau Rouge. In 2002, Toyota driver Allan McNish suffered a high-speed crash through the bump. The crash sent him through a metal fence. He was not seriously injured.
  Track officials redesigned the corner. They made it a double-apex (two smaller turns in one corner) section. One apex had a 85 metres (279 ft) radius, and the second had a 340 metres (1,115 ft) radius. This led to a much closer Casio Triangle (chicane), with the chicane becoming a "bus stop" type for motorcycles.
  Problems continued for the revised section.  During the 2003 MotoGP Grand Prix of Japan, the track's first major event since the revisions, MotoGP rider Daijiro Kato was killed when he crashed in the new section, on his way to the braking zone for the Casio Triangle. MotoGP has not returned to Suzuka since the incident.
caption: Suzuka Circuit seen in 2006
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