Modified program for the 2nd loop on Friday in Japan

This is not really what was expected from a round like Japan. After several seasons of hoping to return WRC, it appears that there is nothing like experience to avoid mistakes and get around difficulties. The events followed one another with first the fire of the Hyundai by Dani Sordo. With his co-driver Candido Carrera, they tried everything to contain the flames, but the existence of a possible leak always allowed the fire to restart and the i20 hybrid ended up burning completely. “ There is absolutely nothing to recover, detailed Julien Moncet, the boss of the team. We have no data or images... nothing that can explain what happened. » If the loss of a car whose price is in millions is a catastrophe, it could have been more serious with emergency services present on the scene, but more than an hour after the start of the disaster... and with water which would not have been very effective on this type of material... In this same special, the crossing of the Isegami tunnel caused a lot of talk. This passage was sold as a wonderful moment of this event, while the competitors and the teams had all pointed out the risks of dust that existed. The ground of this very narrow conduit is indeed earth and immediately after Kalle Rovanperä the visibility became worse and worse. Is this what caused Kajetan Kajetanowicz to crash just outside the tunnel? Why hadn't this one been watered? Some questions will have to be answered, but in the meantime, the pilots will not take it this afternoon. Almost 9 km have been removed, which was 23,29 km and will be only 14,33. Other incidents occurred in SS4. During his accident, Craig Breen damaged a barrier. The absence of the latter poses a security concern and there will be no 2^e passage in this chrono. The schedule is therefore significantly reduced since only one special (SS6 which is SS4 which was not run this morning, Editor's note) and part of SS5 will be contested. If the timetable for SS5 remains unchanged (13:31 p.m./5:31 a.m. in France), that of SS7 changes (15:19 p.m./7:19 a.m.).