レース後、パナソニック・トヨタ・レーシングのチーム代表（兼TMG会長）の山科忠氏のコメントが「30年振りのF1レース開催を成し遂げた富士スピードウェイを祝福したい。ここの施設は整っており、レース運営も良かった。残念なのは、このホームGPで望んでいた結果を得られなかったことだ」（ちなみに、富士スピードウェイはトヨタの傘下）。いえいえ、施設もサービスもとっても残念だった。すでに色々とニュースになっていて今さらという感じだけど、一応書き出してみた。
チケット＆ライドシステムを取り入れているので、指定されたシャトルバス以外でのスピードウェイへの入場は禁止。もしかしたらスムーズかもと期待したものの、土曜日の東側ゲートでは
シャトルバスの専用道路が損壊し観客約９万人のうち約２万人が足止め。
東側ゲートの混雑は、土曜明け方に降り始めた雨で出来た道路の陥没のせいらしい。ならば、陥没しなかった西側ゲートで4時間以上待たされたのは何のせい？
東側の道路の陥没が見つかったのは土曜日と一般公表されているが、実際は金曜日。金と土曜日に何の改善も出来なかったので、当然日曜日も大大大渋滞。
決勝開始時までに入場できなかった85人に対しても入場料を返金し、交通費、宿泊費も補償するのは良いけれど、間に合わなかったのは「85人のツアー客」以外にもたくさん存在する。
日曜日の決勝レース終了後、何百人も並んでいる御殿場行きバスの行列を誘導しようとしていたのは、とても若い男性たったひとり。列が乱れて暴動勃発寸前も当然。ワタシのシャトルバス待ち時間は3時間半。ひどい人は6時間待ち。
F1の応援には欠かせない横断幕などの持ち込みを禁止しておきながら、（富士スピードウェイを所有している）
トヨタだけがちゃっかりとドデカイ旗をなびかせていた。
鈴鹿にくらべて屋根のあるスペース、座って食事が出来るスペースが少なすぎ。みんな
立ち食いという状態。しかも食べ物が内容に対して高すぎ。
10,000円のF1グランプリ弁当、ウソの様なホントの話。
ちなみに富士スピードウェイは大会開催前に「富士F1GPの開催方針は、一、すべてのお客様（地元の皆様、観客、関係者等）への徹底した"おもてなし"。二、地元の発展と一体となった地元共生型イベントの実現である」と説明していたそう。来年の富士に期待か、それともこれからはやっぱり鈴鹿か。
After the race, Toyota Racing's Chairman and Team Principal Tadashi Yamashina said: 'I would like to say congratulations to Fuji Speedway for hosting this race for the first time in 30 years. The facilities here are excellent and the race was well organised. It is a shame we could not get the result we wanted in this race' (btw Toyota owns Fuji Speedway). Well, it is a shame that he thought the facilities were excellent! There were so many websites in Japanese writing about how badly this
2007 Japanese GP was organized. I'm a little slow, but I also think Suzuka was more fun. I picked up some problems here:
Fuji Speedway adopted a
Ticket and Ride system that combined an admission ticket with bus transportation to help ensure trouble-free access, but it didn't work well:
about 20,000 spectators had been forced to stay in the outlying circuit for up to four hours after the qualifying.
Fuji Speedway announced that the long queues for buses at the West Gate were caused by a sudden cave‐in in the road, but there were also super long, four hour queues at the East Gate, even though there were no cave-ins in that direction!
Fuji Speedway announced that the road caved in because of the rain on Saturday morning, but apparently the cave-in was found on Friday and anyway it wasn't raining that hard on Saturday morning. Fuji Speedway didn't do anything about the cave-in, so there was a huge traffic jam on Sunday too. It's good that
85 fans will be reimbursed for transportation, hotel and other expenses because their shuttle buses did not make it to the circuit until 30 minutes after the start of Sunday's race, but the 85 people on the F1 tour bus were not the only people who missed the start of the race! There were lots more people!!
After the final, there were hundreds of people waiting for the bus to Gotenba and only one young guy was trying to organise the queue. Of course it didn't work well. We had to wait for three and a half hours, some people waited for six hours.
Fuji Speedway prohibited spectators from setting up flags and banners to support their teams and drivers, but
Toyota, the owners, were using huge flags!
Compared to Suzuka circuit, there was too little space to sit down for eating and there was no space to avoid the rain. The food was bad quality and expensive. I had to laugh about the
F1 GP Bento which cost ¥10,000!
Before this event was held, the organisers were saying that 'under the basic theme "Endless Beauty, Unlimited Excitement - F1 Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji Speedway", the event will be organized according to three major policy guidelines: 1) providing services based on advanced safety and high quality, 2) offering a variety of ways to enjoy F1, and 3) contributing to and encouraging participation by the local community'. Oh well, maybe they will do better next year, but maybe they should leave it to Suzuka in the future...
