The Mid Night Club also known as Mid Night Racing Team () is a Japanese street racing association that hosted illegal top speed themed races mainly on the Bayshore Route (known natively as the ) of the Shuto Expressway between Tokyo to Yokohama in Japan. The street racing team and subsequent club was formed in 1982 and presently remains active.
]"Mid Night Racing" became one of the most notorious and highly respected clubs of its type, which led to it being featured in over 200 editorial features in most of the leading Japanese auto magazines and even in foreign magazines such as the Danish Autoviz, the British Max Power and the American Turbo magazine. One of the earliest non-Japanese media referrals was in the first episode of Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld in January 1995, when the presenter Jeremy Clarkson, driving his Nissan Skyline GT-R around Japan, stated that his car "is more likely to be seen in the Mid Night Club". The show featured roughly 30 seconds of amateur footage revealing the typical nature of the club. The combination of its dangerously high racing speed, and aggressive racing style gave street racing in East Asia a worldwide notoriety.
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