Forum8 Rally Japan 2023

Forum8 Rally Japan 2023


16. 11. 2023 - 20. 11. 2023

Rovanperä Kalle
69
Kalle Rovanperä
Jonne Halttunen
FIN
FIN
Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT
Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 Hybrid
P1
RC1
FIN
FIN
Halttunen Jonne
SS
After SS
SS SS name Length [km] Time Order in SS Diff. leader
(s/km)
Aver. speed Order after SS Total time Diff. leader Penalty
1 Toyota Stadium SSS 1 2.1 00:01:51.6 6. 00:00:04.0
1.90
67.74 6. 00:01:51.6 00:00:04.0
2 Isegami's Tunnel 1 23.67 00:20:50.1 5. 00:00:32.3
1.36
68.16 6. 00:22:41.7 00:00:31.4
3 Inabu Dam 1 19.38 00:15:25.0 9. 00:01:05.0
3.35
75.42 7. 00:38:06.7 00:01:36.4
5 Isegami's Tunnel 2 23.67 00:19:32.3 5. 00:00:24.2
1.02
72.69 5. 00:57:39.0 00:01:41.8
6 Inabu Dam 2 19.38 00:13:05.3 4. 00:00:16.8
0.87
88.84 3. 01:10:44.3 00:01:58.3
7 Shitara Town 2 22.53 00:14:43.8 4. 00:00:10.2
0.45
91.77 3. 01:25:28.1 00:02:07.4
8 Toyota Stadium SSS 2 2.1 00:02:01.2 5. 00:00:01.2
0.57
62.38 3. 01:27:29.3 00:02:06.6
Information
Date and time SS Information
17.11.2023 12:11 8 flash info (69 - Rovanperä Kalle / Halttunen Jonne): Not so easy. We were struggling a lot yesterday with the car on this stage, so I was a bit afraid the wet would be bad. We are safely at the end of the day and that's the most important thing.
17.11.2023 12:11 7 flash info (69 - Rovanperä Kalle / Halttunen Jonne): Quite a bit more grip than we what we have seen so far today. Hopefully we are not cleaning it too much, but it felt quite tricky at the end with the narrow line.
17.11.2023 12:11 6 flash info (69 - Rovanperä Kalle / Halttunen Jonne): On the first pass, the conditions were so bad being the first car on the road and doing half of the stage with no visibility. We had a safe and clean run through.
17.11.2023 12:11 5 flash info (69 - Rovanperä Kalle / Halttunen Jonne): It was quite okay. Definitely I was enjoying it more than in the morning, not cleaning the road all the time. A lot of fog in a few places, so still not easy conditions. It's difficult to be safe in these conditions but I still tried to keep a small margin and just enjoy the driving.
17.11.2023 00:11 3 flash info (69 - Rovanperä Kalle / Halttunen Jonne): It's quite extreme at the moment. At the beginning of the stage there was so much standing water that you couldn't even be full-throttle on the straight, and then for half of the stage I had no visibility - all of the windows were fogged up.
16.11.2023 23:11 2 flash info (69 - Rovanperä Kalle / Halttunen Jonne): These conditions are the most difficult I have seen all year - it's eve more difficult than Central Europe. There are so many pine needles on the road and it's definitely going to clean for the later cars.
16.11.2023 21:11 1 flash info (69 - Rovanperä Kalle / Halttunen Jonne): It's always nice to come here, especially as a Toyota driver. It looks like we were quite bad on this stage, like many of our cars. Unfortunately we have to come here two more times so we need to find something because the car was quite tricky to drive.