The 2022 Rally Japan (also known as the FORUM8 Rally Japan 2022) was a

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event for

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held over four days between 10 and 13 November 2022. It would mark the seventh running of the

Rally Japan Rally Japan (ラリージャパン) is a rally competition held in Hokkaidō, Japan. The event made its debut in the FIA World Rally Championship during the 2004 season. From 2004 to 2007, the event was held on the twisty and narrow gravel roads ...

. The event would be the final round of the

2022 World Rally Championship The 2022 FIA World Rally Championship is the fiftieth season of the World Rally Championship, an auto racing competition recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) as the highest class of international rallying. Teams a ...

World Rally Championship-2 The FIA WRC2 (previously also known as World Rally Championship 2 and WRC 2), is a support championship of the World Rally Championship. The calendar consists of the same rallies and stages as the main class and crews usually compete immediately ...

and

World Rally Championship-3 The FIA WRC3 is a support championship of the World Rally Championship. The calendar consists of the same rallies and stages as the parent series and crews usually compete immediately after WRC2 entrants. Entry into WRC3 is limited to cars th ...

. The 2022 event was based in

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in Chūbu Region and was contested over nineteen special stages covering a total competitive distance of .

Sébastien Ogier Sébastien Ogier (born 17 December 1983) is a French rally driver, competing for the Toyota Gazoo Racing Team in the World Rally Championship (WRC), who is teamed with the co-driver Julien Ingrassia. He has won the World Rally Drivers' Champion ...

and

Julien Ingrassia Julien Ingrassia (born 26 November 1979) is a retired French rally co-driver. Working with Sébastien Ogier, he became World Rally Champion in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 with Volkswagen Motorsport, 2017 and 2018 with M-Sport World Rally Team, ...

are the defending rally winners. However, Ingrassia would not defend his title as he retired from the sport at the end of 2021 season. Citroën Total World Rally Team, the team they drove for in , when the

held a World Rally Championship event last time, are the defending manufacturers' winners, but they would not defending their titles after parent company Citroën withdrew from the sport.

Thierry Neuville Thierry Jean Neuville (born 16 June 1988) is a Belgian rally driver who is competing in the World Rally Championship for Hyundai Motorsport. During his career, he has finished as runner-up in the drivers' championship five times (2013, 2016–2 ...

and

Martijn Wydaeghe Martijn Wydaeghe (born 1 September 1992) is a Belgian rallying co-driver. He is partnered with Thierry Neuville for Hyundai Motorsport in the World Rally Championship category. Rally career Wydaeghe made his WRC debut at the 2013 Rallye de Fran ...

won their second rally of the season. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the manufacturer's winners.

Grégoire Munster Grégoire Munster (born 24 December 1998) is a Belgians, Belgian rallying, rally driver driving with a licence from Luxemburg. His father has the Belgian and his mother the Luxembourgish nationality but he drives with a licence from Luxemburg beca ...

and Louis Louka won the World Rally Championship-2 category, while

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and Reeta Hämäläinen clinched the WRC-2 titles.

Background

Entry list

The following crews were entered into the rally. The event was open to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, its support categories, the World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3, and

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entries that are not registered to score points in any championship. Eleven were entered under

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regulations, as are seventeen

Rally2 In the motorsport discipline of rallying, Group Rally2 is a formula of rally car specification determined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, FIA for use in its international competitions: the World Rally Championship (WRC) and reg ...

crews in the World Rally Championship-2.

Itinerary

All dates and times are JST (

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Report

WRC Rally1

Classification

Special stages

Championship standings

*Bold text indicates 2022 World Champions.

WRC-2 Rally2

Classification

Special stages

Championship standings

*Bold text indicates 2022 World Champions.

WRC-3 Rally3

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crews entered the round.

Championship standings

*Bold text indicates 2022 World Champions.

References

External links

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2022 Rally Japan
at eWRC-results.com
2022 Rally Japan
at rally-maps.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Rally Japan, 2022 2022 in Japanese motorsport 2022 World Rally Championship season November 2022 sports events in Japan

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