Rally Japan

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Rally Japan
Chris Atkinson driving his Subaru Impreza WRC in 2006 Rally Japan.
GenreRallying
FrequencyAnnual
Location(s)Chūbu region
CountryJapan
Inaugurated2004
Websitewww.rally-japan.jp

Rally Japan (ラリージャパン) is a

2008 season, the event was moved to the region close to Sapporo, Hokkaidō's main city. Rally Japan was not held in 2009, but returned in 2010 for one year. Rally Japan was planned to return in 2020 to the new location of Nagoya, but was cancelled on August 19 due to COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. It was cancelled again in 2021, and returned as the last rally of the season in 2022.[1]

History

Rikubetsu
in 2006.

world champion Petter Solberg of the Subaru World Rally Team
. For 2005 the World and Asia-Pacific Rally events were split into two separate event with the APRC round returning to the Rally Hokkaido name.

The

2006
event was won by Loeb 5.6 seconds ahead of Grönholm.

Sébastien Loeb at the Sapporo Dome during the 2008 event.

Rally Japan was the fourteenth rally on the World Rally Championship schedule for the

leg of the rally after his co-driver Daniel Elena called out the wrong pace note
instruction for the first time in ten years.

In December 2007, Rally Japan organisers announced that for the

Citroën Total's Sébastien Loeb, who secured a record fifth title with his third-place finish. The rally also featured a bad crash by François Duval, which injured his co-driver Patrick Pivato.[2]

The

Hokkaidō to a new base in Nagoya and is run on tarmac rather than gravel.[3]

Past winners

Mikko Hirvonen during a road section of the 2007 Rally Japan.
Season Driver
Co-driver 		Car Event report
2004
 Norway Petter Solberg
Wales Phil Mills 		Japan Subaru Impreza WRC 2004 Report
2005
 Finland Marcus Grönholm[4]
Finland Timo Rautiainen 		France Peugeot 307 WRC Report
2006
 France Sébastien Loeb[5]
Monaco Daniel Elena 		France Citroën Xsara WRC Report
2007
 Finland Mikko Hirvonen[6]
Finland Jarmo Lehtinen 		United Kingdom Ford Focus RS WRC 07 Report
2008
 Finland Mikko Hirvonen[7]
Finland Jarmo Lehtinen 		United Kingdom Ford Focus RS WRC 08 Report
2010
 France Sébastien Ogier
France Julien Ingrassia 		France Citroën C4 WRC Report
2011–2019 Not held
2020–2021 Cancelled
2022 Belgium Thierry Neuville
Belgium Martijn Wydaeghe 		South Korea Hyundai i20 N Rally1 Report
2023 United Kingdom Elfyn Evans
United Kingdom Scott Martin 		Japan Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 Report

References

  1. ^ "Excitement builds following 2022 calendar announcement". WRC - World Rally Championship. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
  2. ^ "Patrick Pivato injury update". walesrallygb.com. 6 November 2008. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  3. ^ Klein, Jamie (19 August 2020). "Belgium gets WRC round for the first time after Rally Japan axed". autosport.com. Motorsport Network. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  4. ^ WRC. "World Rally Championship – Rallies". Archived from the original on 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
  5. ^ WRC. "World Rally Championship – Rallies". Archived from the original on 2008-02-14. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
  6. ^ WRC. "World Rally Championship – Rallies". Archived from the original on 2008-06-06. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
  7. ^ WRC. "World Rally Championship – Rallies". Archived from the original on 2008-11-12. Retrieved 2008-11-03.

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