On 1 March 2022, the name of the track was changed to Mobility Resort Motegi, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the facility.
[1] The road course's most notable event is the Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix which is currently held every year.
On March 28, 1998, CART held the inaugural Indy Japan 300 at Twin Ring Motegi Speedway.
[3] The road course, rather than the super speedway, was used for the 2011 race due to damage to the oval track resulting from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake.
[9] Mike Skinner won the only NASCAR Cup Series exhibition race held at the track in 1998, the Coca-Cola 500.
By Japanese standards the circuit is exceptionally flat, with only a slight elevation rise towards the hairpin turn.
For spectators, sightlines can be extremely poor for road course races, as the grandstands are much further back than usual.
Track access is a major concern, with only two entry and exit points by a two-lane public road.
Motegi is not a particularly large town, and accommodation is virtually non-existent close to the track, except for the on-site hotel.
In 2011, Casey Stoner and Jorge Lorenzo proposed to boycott the MotoGP race out of fears for their health from radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant even though all the independent scientific experts including the World Health Organization and Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency had stated that it is safe to live permanently 80 km (50 mi) or more from the plant.
As of December 2024, the fastest official race lap records at the Mobility Resort Motegi are listed as: As a large recently constructed Japanese circuit, Mobility Resort Motegi has and continues to be utilised virtually in a large number of electronic video games, both in arcade machines and in PC and console games for home use.