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of Daytona International Speedway, was invited to Japan to oversee the race track's design, but he soon found out that the proposed site was unsuitable for building a superspeedway due to the steep terrain. Moneypenny sought a consultant's help to rework the project, and retired F1 driver Stirling Moss was hired as a consultant. Inspecting the site in August 1964, Moss dismissed the idea of constructing a Daytona-style oval on such terrain as nonsense.

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