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Indy car series was greeted with a 6.2 at Motegi today.
"Just a little shaking to keep us all awake!" tweeted Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing's Graham Rahal late on Wednesday night, after the Tokyo region was hit by a 6.2 magnitude 'quake.
It was an aftershock from the massive 9.0 earthquake that hit the region in March, triggering a devastating tsunami and causing problems with the Fukushima nuclear power plants, the consequences of both of which are still being felt - including forcing IndyCar to have to switch from the structurally-compromised speedway oval to the road course circuit for this weekend's Indy Japan event.
While a 6.2 might sound serious, it was practically not even worth talking about to the locals, who have endured some 1538 'quakes since the big one on March 11 caused such catastrophic damage. This latest aftershock was centered about 137 miles east of Tokyo and was still very much felt in Motegi, which is about 86 miles north of the capital, but for the IndyCar entourage it was a bit of a jolting experience nonetheless.
"Interesting to sit in your hotel room and see your TV walk across the desk!" said Rahal, who quickly reassured people that everything was "all good here."
"Just had a pretty good tremor here in Motegi!!" tweeted Ryan Hunter-Reay. "Wow, that's a first for me! No more please!"
"It was fun for like 3 secs until you realize is not stopping is not stopping is not ..." quipped Oriol Servia.
"Forgot to mention nearly being trampled by a herd of elephants stampeding because of the 'quake," tweeted JR Hildebrand, who as a native of California would have more experience of 'quakes than most in the IndyCar paddock. "Was pretty sure the world was ending actually."
The aftershock did not damage the race facilities at Motegi, and didn't get in the way of preparations for the weekend's race activity. Nearly 200,000kg of equipment had already flown in on two Nippon Cargo Airlines 747s earlier in the week to deliver the IndyCar roadshow to Japan - and that doesn't include 1,526 Firestone Firehawk tyres arriving at the Port of Tokyo after a 16-day sea voyage from Long Beach, California.
Indy car series was greeted with a 6.2 at Motegi today.
"Just a little shaking to keep us all awake!" tweeted Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing's Graham Rahal late on Wednesday night, after the Tokyo region was hit by a 6.2 magnitude 'quake.
It was an aftershock from the massive 9.0 earthquake that hit the region in March, triggering a devastating tsunami and causing problems with the Fukushima nuclear power plants, the consequences of both of which are still being felt - including forcing IndyCar to have to switch from the structurally-compromised speedway oval to the road course circuit for this weekend's Indy Japan event.
While a 6.2 might sound serious, it was practically not even worth talking about to the locals, who have endured some 1538 'quakes since the big one on March 11 caused such catastrophic damage. This latest aftershock was centered about 137 miles east of Tokyo and was still very much felt in Motegi, which is about 86 miles north of the capital, but for the IndyCar entourage it was a bit of a jolting experience nonetheless.
"Interesting to sit in your hotel room and see your TV walk across the desk!" said Rahal, who quickly reassured people that everything was "all good here."
"Just had a pretty good tremor here in Motegi!!" tweeted Ryan Hunter-Reay. "Wow, that's a first for me! No more please!"
"It was fun for like 3 secs until you realize is not stopping is not stopping is not ..." quipped Oriol Servia.
"Forgot to mention nearly being trampled by a herd of elephants stampeding because of the 'quake," tweeted JR Hildebrand, who as a native of California would have more experience of 'quakes than most in the IndyCar paddock. "Was pretty sure the world was ending actually."
The aftershock did not damage the race facilities at Motegi, and didn't get in the way of preparations for the weekend's race activity. Nearly 200,000kg of equipment had already flown in on two Nippon Cargo Airlines 747s earlier in the week to deliver the IndyCar roadshow to Japan - and that doesn't include 1,526 Firestone Firehawk tyres arriving at the Port of Tokyo after a 16-day sea voyage from Long Beach, California.
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