Craig Breen goes off the road, special stage No. 4 interrupted

For its return to the world championship calendar, the rally du Japon connaît un début très mouvementé. Après l’incendie de la Hyundai i20 Rally1 hybride de Dani Sordo et Candido Carrera dans l’ES2, l’annulation de l’ES3 qui en a découlé, un nouvel incident s’est produit dans la 4^e. Delayed by 20 minutes, it was only completely covered by 7 crews. First announced simply stopped, Craig Breen ultimately missing. At the stop point, Fergus Greensmith confirmed that his teammate had gone off the road. In a complicated season, it's another mistake for the Irishman who was 5^e at the time of his accident. The special was then interrupted without it being possible to know if this had a link with the Puma Rally1 incident. This special was definitely very unfavorable to the two unique Fords since in addition to Breen's withdrawal, Greensmith revealed that he had transmission problems. After this new truncated ES, Thierry Neuville and Elfyn Evans are tied for the lead in the race… and the majority of the field has yet to run a single kilometer against the clock today!

Provisional ranking after SS4