2011 Indy Japan : The Final was the ninth and final running of the Indy Japan 300 and the sixteenth round of the 2011 IndyCar Series season . It took place on Sunday September 18 , 2011 . The race was contested over 63 laps at the Twin Ring Motegi road course in Motegi , Tochigi , Japan . This event was to be contested on the oval but due to the damage which was brought to the oval during the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami , six months earlier , the series decided to replace the event from the damaged oval to the still intact road course
Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
2011 Indy Japan: The Final