[WRC] FORUM8 Rally Japan 2023

[CeskyOndra]

Might be slightly early but weather forecast looks horrendous for friday.

Im checking forecast like every day now and it didn't change too much in last 5 days. Still a lot of rain. This won't change. Really wet Friday on rally Japan is coming!

[bluuford]

I can tell you that I almost could not recognize some stages from last year. Many sections are sooooo different.. the amount of leaves, needles... all kind of dirt on the stages is amazing, hopefully no brushing It will be much more difficult event this year. If half of the field can survive first day without any incident, I would be surprised
*note: last year Ogier puncture, Evans went wide and hit something got puncture, Rovanpera hit the mountain heavily and broke wheel, Breen crashed, Taka had major incident with bank (run up of very steep bank without any major consequences). Kaijto hit wall after tunnel and retired (tunnel is now asphalt ), Sordo burned down his car, last day heavy rain during last two stages.. and the amount of fans queueing for autographs was amazing! This is really nice rally

[CeskyOndra]

I can tell you that I almost could not recognize some stages from last year. Many sections are sooooo different.. the amount of leaves, needles... all kind of dirt on the stages is amazing, hopefully no brushing It will be much more difficult event this year. If half of the field can survive first day without any incident, I would be surprised
*note: last year Ogier puncture, Evans went wide and hit something got puncture, Rovanpera hit the mountain heavily and broke wheel, Breen crashed, Taka had major incident with bank (run up of very steep bank without any major consequences). Kaijto hit wall after tunnel and retired (tunnel is now asphalt ), Sordo burned down his car, last day heavy rain during last two stages.. and the amount of fans queueing for autographs was amazing! This is really nice rally

Yees. I saw some footage from recce on Thierry's Instagram, road full covered by leaves! Especially first stage of the rally seems to be really demanding

[seb_sh]

Looking forward to this one, seems unpredictable! Also I like the itinerary, I can watch before work and in my lunch break friday, usually I have to split my attention a bit

[CeskyOndra]

seb, where u from? america, or?

[seb_sh]

seb, where u from? america, or?

idiot land, i converted it in the wrong direction

[EstWRC]

Recce interviews including Toshi Arai! And nice cars for Mikkelsen and Solberg

https://youtu.be/bn7TQ9nzd1M?si=JeSt2EBYCxD0_tkf

[Rallyper]

Just remember: Last Pickems for 2023 is closing at 1100 hrs CET tomorrow Thursday.

[seb_sh]

Recce interviews including Toshi Arai! And nice cars for Mikkelsen and Solberg

https://youtu.be/bn7TQ9nzd1M?si=JeSt2EBYCxD0_tkf

leaving my timezone conversion stupidity aside...

This is further evidence that Colin Clark is the best WRC interviewer and if WRC wants to grow they should integrate his recce/morning/midday interviews. The rapport and banter he has with the drivers is great and creates a nice feeling for fans to know the crews. It's also entartaining enough to follow the whole thing. I criticize him for his "driver ratings" and George Donaldson did as well, even himself admitted he does it to create talking points. The man is not a journalist but this kind of interviews are pure gold and the WRC are complete idiots to ignore this.

[EstWRC]

leaving my timezone conversion stupidity aside...

This is further evidence that Colin Clark is the best WRC interviewer and if WRC wants to grow they should integrate his recce/morning/midday interviews. The rapport and banter he has with the drivers is great and creates a nice feeling for fans to know the crews. It's also entartaining enough to follow the whole thing. I criticize him for his "driver ratings" and George Donaldson did as well, even himself admitted he does it to create talking points. The man is not a journalist but this kind of interviews are pure gold and the WRC are complete idiots to ignore this.

i totally agree, i really like these interviews and also the race day morning ones.

Overall its good that we have dirfish with their content IMO. Imagine them not existing and we would be only with wrc.com?