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BY FRANK KAHEESI & HENRY MBAZIIRA
The penultimate round of the 2025 FIA World Rally Championship, FORUM8 Rally Japan is set to be held in Aichi and Gifu Prefectures from Thursday, November 6 to Sunday, November 9, 2025.
Opening ceremony, of the “FORUM8 Rally Japan Welcome Show,” at Meitetsu Toyota-shi Station on the first day of the event, Thursday, November 6 by 3pm local time, 9am Eats African time.
It kicks off with a parade of classic cars competing in the event’s Historic category, the show will feature a public viewing of Super Special Stage (SSS) 1 at Kuragaike Park.
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This will go LIVE on the WRC plus Channel, will also broadcast highlights of the WRC competing around the world.
Following an illumination lighting ceremony, a parade will begin with the top category rally cars, with already 2025 Manufacturer’s title winners, Toyota hitting the asphalt first with top three cars, including Elfyn Evans, Sebastien Ogier,and Kalle Rovanpera.
Hyundai’s Ott Tanak and Thierry Neville will follow in fourth and fifth positions.
Homeboy Takamoto Katsuta sin another Toyota Rally1 starts as car number six, followed by M-Sport’s Adrien Fourmaux, as Sami Pajari, Joshua Mcerlean and Grégoire Munster chase in that order respectively.
“This is one of the most demanding WRC round, with Co-drivers at full deployment all time, with precise and accurate notes,as one stage could have a thousand corners,” intimated one of the top drivers, ahead of the event.
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