[WRC] Forum8 Rally Japan 2026

[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-four...roy-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