2025 Rally Japan

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2025 Rally Japan
FORUM8 Rally Japan 2025
Round 13 of 14 in the 2025 World Rally Championship
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2024 Rally Japan Toyota Stadium.jpg
The rally features routes staged in Toyota Stadium.
Host countryFlag of Japan.svg  Japan
Rally base Toyota, Aichi Prefecture
Dates run6 9 November 2024
Start location Toyota Stadium, Toyota
Finish locationToyota Stadium, Toyota
Stages20 (305.34 km; 189.73 miles) [1]
Stage surface Tarmac
Transport distance617.67 km (383.80 miles)
Overall distance923.01 km (573.53 miles)

The 2025 Rally Japan (also known as the FORUM8 Rally Japan 2025) is a planned motor racing event for rally cars that is scheduled to be held over four days from 6 to 9 November 2025. [2] It would mark the tenth running of the Rally Japan, and would be the thirteenth round of the 2025 World Rally Championship, 2025 WRC2 Championship and 2025 WRC3 Championship. The 2025 event is set to be based in Nagoya in Chūbu Region and is due to be contested over twenty special stages, covering a total competitive distance of 305.34 km (189.73 mi). [1]

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Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin are the defending rally winners, and their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, are the defending manufacturers' winners. [3] Nikolay Gryazin and Konstantin Aleksandrov are the defending rally winners in the WRC2 category. [4] Diego Dominguez Jr. and Rogelio Peñate are the defending rally winners in the WRC3 category.

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Itinerary

All dates and times are JST (UTC+9).

DateNo.Time spanStage nameDistance
6 NovemberAfter 9:01Kuragaike Park [ Shakedown ]2.75 km
Ribbon-cutting icon.svg After 15:30Opening ceremony, Toyota Stadium
SS1After 16:05Kuragaike Park SSS2.75 km
7 November Icon tools.svg 5:43 – 5:58Service A, Toyota Stadium
SS2After 7:11Inabu / Shitara 117.08 km
SS3After 8:24Shinshiro 117.41 km
SS4After 9:57Isegami's Tunnel 119.66 km
Aiga carrental cropped.svg 11:37 – 11:57Regroup, Toyota Stadium
Icon tools.svg 11:57 – 12:37Service B, Toyota Stadium
SS5After 13:40Isegami's Tunnel 219.66 km
SS6After 15:03Inabu / Shitara 217.08 km
SS7After 16:16Shinshiro 217.41 km
Icon tools.svg 18:06 – 18:51Flexi service C, Toyota Stadium
8 November Icon tools.svg 5:55 – 6:10Service D, Toyota Stadium
SS8After 7:23Obara 116.44 km
SS9After 8:34Ena 121.25 km
SS10After 10:05Mt. Kasagi 121.74 km
Aiga carrental cropped.svg 10:55 – 11:54Regroup, Enakyo Park
SS11After 12:35Mt. Kasagi 221.74 km
SS12After 14:08Ena 221.25 km
SS13After 15:21Obara 216.44 km
Aiga carrental cropped.svg 16:36 – 17:32Regroup, SkyHall
SS14After 17:35Toyota City SSS3.05 km
Icon tools.svg 18:10 – 18:55Flexi service E, Toyota Stadium
9 November Icon tools.svg 7:26 – 7:41Service F, Toyota Stadium
SS15After 8:39Nukata 120.23 km
SS16After 9:35Lake Mikawako 113.98 km
Aiga carrental cropped.svg 12:07 – 12:27Regroup, Okazaki Central Park General Gymnasium
SS17After 10:53Okazaki SSS 11.98 km
SS18After 11:04Okazaki SSS 21.98 km
Aiga carrental cropped.svg 11:22 – 11:47Regroup, Okazaki Central Park General Gymnasium
SS19After 12:33Nukata 220.23 km
Aiga carrental cropped.svg 13:23 – 14:10Regroup, Mikawako Enchi
SS20After 14:15Lake Mikawako 2 [ Power Stage ]13.98 km
BSicon RACE.svg After 15:45Official finish, Toyota Stadium
Source: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Itinerary FORUM8 Rally Japan 2025". eWRC-results.com . Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  2. "WRC reveals spectacular expanded 2025 calendar". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 31 July 2024. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  3. "Neuville Celebrates Historic WRC Title as Toyota Takes Manufacturers' Glory in Japan". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 24 November 2024. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
  4. "Pajari and Mälkönen crowned 2024 WRC2 Champions". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 24 November 2024. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
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