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As a large recently constructed Japanese circuit, Twin Ring 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.
- In Honda's 2005 Clio Awards winning commercial Impossible Dream, the sequence in which the BAR Formula One car is driven into the bridge is filmed at the circuit.
- During the opening sequence of Kamen Rider Agito, the three main Kamen Riders are shown riding around the circuit, as Honda is the series sponsor.
- During the ending sequence of Engine Sentai Go-onger, the series' characters are shown dancing in the main straight of the road course. The racetrack is revealed in the series as the primary Go-onger team's origin (it is known that Saki Rouyama, Go-on Yellow, works there), and was used in the final scene from "Road Of Justice", the final episode of the series.
- The track is available in the racing games Forza Motorsport 3, Forza Motorsport 4, Gran Turismo 4, Gran Turismo 5 and iRacing.com.
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