It's billed as the only authorized Suzuka park outside of Japan, and the centerpiece is a go-kart track that faithfully recreates the legendary 3.6-mile course. This one is just one-tenth the size ...

You go so fast in some corners, I don't wanna think about what can happen, you know. Narrator: Suzuka was originally built as a Honda test track back in 1962, which explains its harrowing layout ...

Driver Shigeru Terajima lost control of his machine on the Suzuka Circuit start/finish straight ... he's expected to make a full recovery. The track worker, meanwhile, saw the incident coming ...