In its formative years, cars eligible to start included the March 74S, Alpine A441, Chevron, Lola and GRD.
The race was immediately abandoned, and the circuit was reconstructed with the hairpin first corner that exists to this day, bypassing the banking.
This led to a further change in the circuit where a chicane was added in 300R (the final corner) to slow the cars.
Like its predecessor, it raced exclusively at Fuji Speedway with the exception of 2004, when the circuit was undergoing a major renovation work.
[2] Despite running on a small field (usually five and six cars at a time), it ran on into 2006 when the series again folded.