[WRC] Forum8 Rally Japan 2026

[Andre Oliveira]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HHiZQsLXcAUXNPl?format=jpg&name=large

[Dimitris]

https://www.powerslideblog.com/wrc-route-previews/2026/rally-japan-2026-route-preview

My Rally Japan route preview - with some cool interactive maps that I have made. Pretty much identical to last year, but with one new stage.

[Andre Oliveira]

Ogier fastest in shakedown

https://ewrc-results.com/event/96261-forum8-rally-japan-2026/shakedown

[240RS]

Watching Adrien Fourmaux's in-car footage on the shakedown was very revealing. The amount of steering input and "busy" activity behind the wheel is a massive pointer to just how difficult the Hyundai is to handle on tarmac. That alone is the rally lost before it's even started.

I hope, though, that isn't the reason for the unusually low traffic on this page. This must be the least we have ever dabbled on an event. And with the time differences with most of the rest of the world, it doesn't look like we will be very lively this weekend.

[EstWRC]

Don’t worry

Everything will be awesome next year as they say here

[flat_right]

After the first run Thierry said that when he accelerated the car went straight which indicates understeer. I wonder if all the Hyundais have the same issue. But anyway.. glad we have a massive time zone difference and I can't follow. Going to be the battle of Toyotas again..

[Eli]

It’s Japan, it’s not Obihiro, hell it’s not even the Colin McRae Rally stages from the ‘04 & ‘05 games (which were on tarmac) and there’s quite a bit of a time difference. Now, if Hyundai were actually able to mount a challenge on Toyota or we’d have a VWesk team to have a two giant fight it out..okay but we’re neither here nor there so….

[becher]

Watching Adrien Fourmaux's in-car footage on the shakedown was very revealing. The amount of steering input and "busy" activity behind the wheel is a massive pointer to just how difficult the Hyundai is to handle on tarmac. That alone is the rally lost before it's even started.

I hope, though, that isn't the reason for the unusually low traffic on this page. This must be the least we have ever dabbled on an event. And with the time differences with most of the rest of the world, it doesn't look like we will be very lively this weekend.


The car looked evil again.


As for the rally, I find it somehow less fitting at this time of the year.

[Ferranis]

I watch a lot of Hyundai Onboards on WRC+ because of this. It's not fast, but entertaining. Car is really a dog, even on gravel. How do you even get there as a team?

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Neuville 3 seconds slower on a 2 minute stage must be a record even for Hyundai !

[crowbot]

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I hope, though, that isn't the reason for the unusually low traffic on this page. This must be the least we have ever dabbled on an event. And with the time differences with most of the rest of the world, it doesn't look like we will be very lively this weekend.

Sorry about the off topic first post, but the low traffic might be more about this site's ... decline than this particular rally. Sign ups for new members were broken for at least 6-8 months up until recently. I was trying to register once a week or so starting in September(ish) last year. There was no way to contact an admin, I even posted on a few Discords to see if someone would post here about it. I kept loading the site once every day or two, saw that the "Welcome to our newest member, valuer" had not changed, and closed the tab. If registration is broken for new users and no one here notices, it may have happened more than just that one time. So you will have a shrinking membership as people die or drift away and without new people, traffic will start to dry up.

[PLuto]

Neuville 3 seconds slower on a 2 minute stage must be a record even for Hyundai !

Again he was much slower than Adrien and on same speed like Hayden...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Again he was much slower than Adrien and on same speed like Hayden...

And same 3.0s gap to both of Ogier's runs, still no closer after 4 runs. Pathetic.

[Rallyper]

Sorry about the off topic first post, but the low traffic might be more about this site's ... decline than this particular rally. Sign ups for new members were broken for at least 6-8 months up until recently. I was trying to register once a week or so starting in September(ish) last year. There was no way to contact an admin, I even posted on a few Discords to see if someone would post here about it. I kept loading the site once every day or two, saw that the "Welcome to our newest member, valuer" had not changed, and closed the tab. If registration is broken for new users and no one here notices, it may have happened more than just that one time. So you will have a shrinking membership as people die or drift away and without new people, traffic will start to dry up.

Same here with mandatory logging in, everytime. However just to click.
Guess Rally Japan is bad timing for Europeans over the 24 hrs...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Sorry about the off topic first post, but the low traffic might be more about this site's ... decline than this particular rally. Sign ups for new members were broken for at least 6-8 months up until recently. I was trying to register once a week or so starting in September(ish) last year. There was no way to contact an admin, I even posted on a few Discords to see if someone would post here about it. I kept loading the site once every day or two, saw that the "Welcome to our newest member, valuer" had not changed, and closed the tab. If registration is broken for new users and no one here notices, it may have happened more than just that one time. So you will have a shrinking membership as people die or drift away and without new people, traffic will start to dry up.

There's still plenty of people registered but posts have dropped off a lot after Monte.

The site is working better after a bad spell but it seems people arent that interested in posting during live events, preferring to just watch unless there's some drama.

[Rallyper]

There's still plenty of people registered but posts have dropped off a lot after Monte.

The site is working better after a bad spell but it seems people arent that interested in posting during live events, preferring to just watch unless there's some drama.

There´s Discord, as well.

[WRCStan]

Something else that's making rally harder to follow - eWRC. Being asked by cloudforce to verify myself as human taking 10 minutes to load and then login every 5 minutes... Reminds me of this site.

[deephouse]

Something else that's making rally harder to follow - eWRC. Being asked by cloudforce to verify myself as human taking 10 minutes to load and then login every 5 minutes... Reminds me of this site.

I liked their old site, it was simple, fast and unrestricted. I know that it can't be running for free forever, but it does a job 100% better than official WRC site.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Agreed on this. eWRC new site looks very smart and modern, but the time it takes to open and to change pages is really slow.

I've often returned to using one of my original timing sites at www.rally-base.com. This has all you really need and is much easier to use.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

There´s Discord, as well.

Yep... and I really don't see the attraction, especially with most of the posts made in one continuous thread.

(I've seen an F1 gaming site I use die because they've all gone to Discord. I really miss it and trying to find the important info and updates on Discord is so difficult.)

[Ferranis]

Would say, let's stay positive and make the forum lively for the rally tomorrow! :) It will be the last tarmac rally for the WRC monster cars, so lets go all out!

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Watching Adrien Fourmaux's in-car footage on the shakedown was very revealing. The amount of steering input and "busy" activity behind the wheel is a massive pointer to just how difficult the Hyundai is to handle on tarmac. That alone is the rally lost before it's even started.



Fourmaux on his own driving style for Japan. It immediately took 2.5s off his SD time...

https://rallyjournal.com/adrien-fourmaux-identifies-the-problem-that-could-destroy-his-rally/

[WRCStan]

10 Rally1 entries
11 WRC2 entries

[WRCStan]

This stage has a grand total of 1 spectator

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Forgot about the all the picture break-ups here for onboards. And now the interviews dropping out too. Really annoying.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Not bad starts by Hyundai's. Shocking for M-Sport on some hard tyres.

[Jajá]

One impressive thing is that Gabriel Morales (my brazilian buddy) is calling the pacenotes in finnish to Lindholm - I would have expected English to be used, but he's raising the bar reading them in finnish.

I remember when I went to Finland in 2008 and the only sentence I could speak in finish was: "Huomenta! En puhu suomea, Puhutekko englastia?" (Hi, I don't speak finnish. Do you speak english?).

[focus206]

Ogier already pissed off.
Paddon lucky not to damage anything.

[becher]

Ogier already pissed off.
Paddon lucky not to damage anything.

Did he say "Where you born yesterday?"?

[Rallyper]

Yep... and I really don't see the attraction, especially with most of the posts made in one continuous thread.

(I've seen an F1 gaming site I use die because they've all gone to Discord. I really miss it and trying to find the important info and updates on Discord is so difficult.)

Well, best is finnish rally chat. Often with latest vids from domestic rallies

[Eli]

Onboards that keep breaking up, hardly any stage side cameras, 32 entries, either change the venue for Rally Japan or go back to Rally Australia, I’m sorry but this is s**t pardon my french.

[Rallyper]

Onboards that keep breaking up, hardly any stage side cameras, 32 entries, either change the venue for Rally Japan or go back to Rally Australia, I’m sorry but this is s**t pardon my french.

Put to that price is 80 Euros per stage for spectators (acc. to people on Discord) as you don´t see any of them on the stages. Crap rally it is. Japan out Australia or New Zeeland in.

[jonkka]

One can wish but I don't think it's co-incidence that Japan has a WRC round and that it's held around Toyota City.

[Eli]

Put to that price is 80 Euros per stage for spectators (acc. to people on Discord) as you don´t see any of them on the stages. Crap rally it is. Japan out Australia or New Zeeland in.

I wouldn’t mind if the rally at least would’ve been as good as it was back in 2004-2008,2010 but it’s not even close…At least they’d be rallying somewhere cool around Mt. Fuji or something..but no….

[Rallyper]

Did Ogier say they have an issue?

[flat_right]

Did Ogier say they have an issue?

Ogier after SS5: "A lot of understeer, but all okay."

[focus206]

Did he say "Where you born yesterday?"?

"Were you born yesterday?" + something else I didn't catch.

[240RS]

Taka Katsuta's lack of pace is baffling. Every indicator leading to the event was pointing towards a strong performance - second on the road, confidence from two event wins and a dominant asphalt Toyota.

Yet he looks lost and short on confidence. Maybe the home pressure is a lot more than he lets up. We may find out on Saturday when he runs in supposedly the best place viz-a-viz other Yaris.

Elfyn Evans, though, deserves a pat on the back for playing to his and Toyota's strength. Ten-out-of-ten for his drive thus far.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

So results pretty much as expected for the Rally1 teams, but at least Neuville is ahead of Katsuta and within touch of Pajari.

A great day for Evans, very impressive to gap both Ogier and Solberg.

[becher]

"Were you born yesterday?" + something else I didn't catch.
Thanks, how can he be still so fragile?

[Fast Eddie WRC]

If you slept through, here's a Day 1 Summary by Dirtfish:

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/evans-leads-solberg-and-ogier-after-rally-japans-first-day/

[Ferranis]

Watching now as re-live. Seems to have been an eventful day!

[Ljuke]

There´s Discord, as well.

could you share the discord link please?

[PLuto]

Watching now as re-live. Seems to have been an eventful day!

And dont forget also nice battle between Gryazin and Cachón for leading in WRC2. Despite their rivals are nowhere on tarmac...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Put to that price is 80 Euros per stage for spectators (acc. to people on Discord) as you don´t see any of them on the stages. .

Crazy... what an own goal by the organisers.

Scott Martin paises them but they should be on the stages:

"Big up to the fans, the road sections are lined !"

[speederbee]

And dont forget also nice battle between Gryazin and Cachón for leading in WRC2. Despite their rivals are nowhere on tarmac...

Yes, for a few stages there they were competing well against the Msport guys.

I don't know why they're surprised by Taka's slower pace... He seems like a nice guy, but realistically he's never been fast before, why would be suddenly start now. He won two events this year only because the faster drivers had problems.

[becher]

Katsuta was fast in Japan before so the size of the gap is a bit surprising.

[Rallyper]

could you share the discord link please?

Just copy pasted latest page. Try this:

https://discord.com/channels/1102529154097872906/1103599142586044456

[deephouse]

Katsuta was nowhere few seasons ago. He up gis game massively and recently became event win contender on Sweden, Kenya and Japan reguraly. Of course he also bin it on many occasions and that's why probably bosses start thibking that putting him beside. As I mentioned many times already, if Kalle wouldn't retire, he would be probably replaced by Solberg. With two wins this year he is now quite safe. He is no longer their weakest driver, it's Pajari, but even him is doing excellent this year. Katsuta did raise his bar and could be on a radar for any team now. Especially if Suby will really announce their conquest

[denkimi]

Katsuta was nowhere few seasons ago. He up gis game massively and recently became event win contender on Sweden, Kenya and Japan reguraly. Of course he also bin it on many occasions and that's why probably bosses start thibking that putting him beside. As I mentioned many times already, if Kalle wouldn't retire, he would be probably replaced by Solberg. With two wins this year he is now quite safe. He is no longer their weakest driver, it's Pajari, but even him is doing excellent this year. Katsuta did raise his bar and could be on a radar for any team now. Especially if Suby will really announce their conquest
Unless another, better japanese driver appears, katsuta's seat is safe. Being slow or crashing doesn't matter, he just has to be japanese.

[deephouse]

That is interesting topic also for other national drivers. Seems like there is a thing today only for Estonian young drivers (after Tanak became wdc), Finish (there was always one of them to became the top contender), Irish (after Breen passing), Japan (of course Toyota big influence here)... oh I forgot Sweden (now again with Solberg, there is a few who will follow). But other nations? Belgian, French, Spain, Italian, GB... It seems like there is not much talking about of them or do they don't have anyone worth looking to.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Katsuta was fast in Japan before so the size of the gap is a bit surprising.

Look back at results of the last 3 editions here and only in 2023 did he set many fastest times.

Since then we've been fed a narrative that he's fast on his home rally. But he's only won a few SS Stages in recent years and had many accidents.

[rallyfiend]

That is interesting topic also for other national drivers. Seems like there is a thing today only for Estonian young drivers (after Tanak became wdc), Finish (there was always one of them to became the top contender), Irish (after Breen passing), Japan (of course Toyota big influence here)... oh I forgot Sweden (now again with Solberg, there is a few who will follow). But other nations? Belgian, French, Spain, Italian, GB... It seems like there is not much talking about of them or do they don't have anyone worth looking to.

You mean other than Gachon (Spanish)? Dapra (Italian)? Rossel (French)?

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Nice fast roads today. Good to watch the speed and commitment. Still weird atmosphere with no fans anywhere.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Mega start by Solberg. Great to see someone full attack.

[Ferranis]

The onboard will be fire (also because the live broadcast is cutting every few seconds...)

[WRCStan]

I forgot, where did Reeta H go?

[jonkka]

I forgot, where did Reeta H go?

I believe she's Emil's gravel crew since Feb this year.

[WRCStan]

Remember that time she drove to victory? :D

[TypeR]

Okay, maybe still not all over for Ogier in WDC..

Solberg crashed with rear end and big points byebye.

Ogier said that not a surprise

[jonkka]

The one stage I decided to miss to get one more hour of sleep... and that happens when nothing has happened on any of the previous stages...

[denkimi]

small error from solberg, but rally and championship ending

https://x.com/OfficialWRC/status/2060592235796631858?s=20

[focus206]

1 win and 3 crashes for Oliver on the asphalt rallies... I hope he'll stay on road for the gravel events, or his title challenge is over.

[trykmann]

1 win and 3 crashes for Oliver on the asphalt rallies... I hope he'll stay on road for the gravel events, or his title challenge is over.

He has had moments in all rallies so far, some of them were just lucky escapes.

[Sal yet again]

All I need for my pickems now is for Neuville to pass Fourmaux and the standings to stay the same as per SS10 and Im 100% on the money! Had a feeling Oliver would slip up again

[trykmann]

Cachon in a Rally2 is only 2.3s slower than McErlean.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Mega start by Solberg. Great to see someone full attack.

Gutted to see Solbergs off but drivers pushing the limits is great to watch. I hope he keeps strong belief in himself and gets better results on gravel.

[archie106]

I'm a big fan of Oliver, think he is great for the sport, his driving is fantastic to watch. However I think he needs to drop the pace a bit, have a few rallies with no mistakes and build from there.

Yes the gravel rallies will probably be better, however he was still making mistakes in Sweden so it's not just a tarmac thing.

He has the talent to be world champion, however needs to find the balance between speed and consistency.

[240RS]

small error from solberg, but rally and championship ending

https://x.com/OfficialWRC/status/2060592235796631858?s=20

Toyota are currently so strong that they can overlook Oliver's mistakes to a large degree. But some of his mistakes this year have been too ego-driven. Someone needs to calm him down,

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Silly mistake from some doing double donuts on the SS Stage.

Also Evans losing 1s to Ogier after all the work on the proper stages. He's never been good on these.

[WRCStan]

Seems he's not happy for anything but first, it's win it or bin it. Good lad. But he shouldn't be upset like that's either a surprise to him or he's not the perfect driver. Too experienced now.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Good to see some fans even if just for the stadium area of the stage. They have really been missed from the real stages, spoiling the atmosphere and spectacle.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Woah Evans lucky there !

[Ferranis]

I am not yet up to date with watching the stages: Did something happen with the Hyundais or are they really minutes off the pace?

[Eli]

I am not yet up to date with watching the stages: Did something happen with the Hyundais or are they really minutes off the pace?

Just slow on Tarmac as they have been (pretty much) from MC last year.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

I am not yet up to date with watching the stages: Did something happen with the Hyundais or are they really minutes off the pace?

Yes the car was worse on Saturday as the stages were fully dry.

As usual Neuville said he had no balance and understeer and pushing or changing his driving made it even worse.

[Ferranis]

The difference is crazy. When the Hyundai is off pace, its not like, 0.1 sec a kilometer, its a second / seconds a kilometer

[doubled1978]

I'm a big fan of Oliver, think he is great for the sport, his driving is fantastic to watch. However I think he needs to drop the pace a bit, have a few rallies with no mistakes and build from there.

Yes the gravel rallies will probably be better, however he was still making mistakes in Sweden so it's not just a tarmac thing.

He has the talent to be world champion, however needs to find the balance between speed and consistency.

I agree, it’s very easy to get into a death spiral with the mistake, so just get a few good scores on the board and build.
I think part of the problem is he thinks he’s not over pushing, but Ogier knows he is and the parts department know he is. He’ll learn and Ogier being a little harsh with him will ultimately help him.

[PLuto]

Just slow on Tarmac as they have been (pretty much) from MC last year.

Since hybrid gone and Hankook came...

[focus206]

Great rally from Evans so far, it has to be one of the best of his career. He has to bring it home now.

Thierry with a slight Gronholm's "I'm fed up with this car" moment.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Last stage ever of Rally1 cars on tarmac... enjoy guys ! :)

[Eli]

Last stage ever of Rally1 cars on tarmac... enjoy ! :)

At least it’s not a Monza 2021 again.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Congrats Gryazin and Lancia... great win after battle with Cachon.

[Eli]

Is it just me or have the Hyundai team changed their uniform, a sign of things to come perhaps? Also regarding Hyundai,I’m sorry but Sordo has been slow (relatively speaking), if they had a bit more common sense, they’d put Paddon in the third car for Acropolis.

[trykmann]

Ogier couldn't resist the opportunity :D

[TypeR]

Gees.. how much can a grown up champ whine about same thing.. tyrestyrestyres.. couple years already with Hankook, adapt to them. Can't accept that somebody is faster than him ..

Congratz mr Elfyn ,,Japan'' Evans

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Brilliant win by Evans, one of his best ever with great pace and consistency. He looks the complet driver now and ready to finally win the Title.

[Corcaíoch]

Great performance by Evans, did the hard work on Friday and controlled things very well since. Shame to see an end to the Rally1s on tarmac but hopefully the gap between Toyota and Hyundai will be closer at least on gravel for the remainder of the season.

[Eli]

Brilliant win by Evans, one of his best ever with great pace and consistency. He looks the complet driver now and ready to finally win the Title.

Now his work starts in earnest, with no Deutschland, Corsica or Catalunya towards the end of the season to help him manage his gap so road sweeping from Greece to Saudi (no chance they’ll replace that round ey?) Huge congratulations to him. Ogier, well what do you expect, if RallyTV would bother to bring back all the highlights from the last decade I’m sure you’d find him complaining about Michelins too, once Ogier, always Ogier. Real shame about how they cocked up Hyundai and also I’ll admit I’m sad this was the last time we saw these machines in action and we don’t get a bon voyage in Ypres or Ireland or something like that in August/November. As for Oliver, someone needs to tell him he needs to slow down just a bit and he’ll be in contention for the championship.

[Corcaíoch]

Is it just me or have the Hyundai team changed their uniform, a sign of things to come perhaps? Also regarding Hyundai,I’m sorry but Sordo has been slow (relatively speaking), if they had a bit more common sense, they’d put Paddon in the third car for Acropolis.

Agree, would chose Paddon, or Lappi over Sordo based on Sordo's recent performances. Would love to see Paddon get a few gravel rallies to see what his pace might actually be. Having driven the i20 on tarmac rallies and managing to stay very positive about it throughout I think he deserves it :D

[240RS]

Now his work starts in earnest, with no Deutschland, Corsica or Catalunya towards the end of the season to help him manage his gap so road sweeping from Greece to Saudi (no chance they’ll replace that round ey?) Huge congratulations to him. As for Oliver, someone needs to tell him he needs to slow down just a bit and he’ll be in contention for the championship.

Elfyn Evans clearly has, arguably, his best chance ever to take the title. He is managing the situation cleverly, knowing Oliver is suffering from bouts of overdriving and Ogier has allowed too many points to slip. Greece may be the only major headache, in as far as road sweeping is concerned, coz Estonia and Finland aren't extreme. This is his championship to lose; but I doubt he will.

[EstWRC]

First time in 13 years that I didn’t watch a single stage of a rally

[Rallyper]

Oliver can slow down quite a bit and still be a lot faster. Just have a look at super sunday results.

Yes, I know the guys in the top needed to manage results overall, and standings quite settled, but still...

[Ferranis]

He is like his Father, for better and worse ^^

I don't think he can scale back much, since it's his personality

[Doon]

Great drive by Elfyn. Sad that he only gets 17 points more than a driver who didn't even finish all the stages. There isnt much point to sunday points, it just penalises the drivers who are trying to manage their speed for the best possible result. Does it make sunday any more exciting? Not for me. The line should have been drawn at the powers stage points.

[Rallyper]

He is like his Father, for better and worse ^^

I don't think he can scale back much, since it's his personality

Agree. But needs to adapt to current circumstances, not what was in 2000-2007...

Btw. Some pressure also for Ollie on Super Sunday, anyway.

[denkimi]

Oliver can slow down quite a bit and still be a lot faster. Just have a look at super sunday results.

Yes, I know the guys in the top needed to manage results overall, and standings quite settled, but still...
Oliver clearly doesn't yet think about the championship and just wants to win rallies.
instead of setteling for 2nd, he tried beating evans. but to beat the best, you need to take bigger risks.

[doubled1978]

Great performance by Evans, I was sure Ogier would reel him in over the last two days.
Fair play to Oliver for sticking it on its nose today after crashing again, he’s got his 10 points which could be important. Needs to learn that what he thinks is a normal speed, is actually high risk which is what keeps catching him out.
Ogier was a little surprising, strange.
Pajari showed us something, some very fast times on tarmac. Good
Katsuta, I guess it’s the pressure as once he was out of it, speed was good.
Fourmaux, very good once he got going, easily quicker than Neuville again.
Neuville, looked like he was going through the motions waiting for gravel.
Paddon, not too bad really given the circumstances. Not his fault they have put him in for the tarmac rallies.
Armstrong, clean rally finally. Puma is awful on these pure tarmac rallies, but he did at least lift it well clear of the Rally2 cars.
Mcerlean Puncture killed anything for him, but pretty average overall.
I’m not sad to see the back of the tarmac for these cars, since the switch to Hankook and non-hybrid, there has been no competition.

[deephouse]

That could be easily done if sunday points would not be worth so much. 5 max for sunday overall and ps 3 max.

[WRCStan]

He is like his Father, for better and worse ^^

I don't think he can scale back much, since it's his personality

Is this Elfyn or Oliver?

[Eli]

Is this Elfyn or Oliver?
I think he was referring to Oliver

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Is this Elfyn or Oliver?

Seriously ? :D

[doubled1978]

I think he was referring to Oliver

I would have thought so, Gwyndaf was not world level fast and crashed a lot, so rather unlike his son!

[WRCStan]

Well, if Elfyn was any more laid back he'd be horizontal. That was the joke.

[Ferranis]

Well, if Elfyn was any more laid back he'd be horizontal. That was the joke.

Extra funny considering how he drives (sits in the seat). He always looks like he perished and was reborn as a rally driver in the middle of a rally (isekaid).

I mean that lovingly, I am a big fan of his

[deephouse]

Like he is taking some shit and is scared as hell. But when the camera is facing road, he drive so calm and fine. It's really funny looking his expressions on face.

[Ferranis]

He is lovingly awkward. I will never forget when he forgot is cap in the doort and tried to awkwardly reach it multiple times during the stage end interview. Really relatable as an awkward person myself. Hopefully he gets to be world champion at the end of the year

[Fast Eddie WRC]

As a Brit I've always supported Evans especially with him being at M-Sport so long and from young.

But I find it hard to really be a fan-boy with his character being so downbeat. Of course it takes all kinds, but he really lacks much character or charisma. He's more one to respect rather than love.

[deephouse]

I actually root for him for two years now. He deserves it, and sorry Ogier don't. Especially when he is playing dirty with this ''part time'' (which obviously is every year longer, and it seems like it's harder every year to do it that way). And if Evans will manage to do it this year, I hope that next year will be more even in constructor championship, but seems it will be even more predictable in that sector as this year, when Toyota is almost everywhere 1,2,3,4 or more.

[Morte66]

Nice one Elfyn.