On 31 July 2024 at 5pm (Central European Time), WRC Promoter GmbH announced the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) calendar for the 2025 season and the dates for the FORUM8 Rally Japan 2025.
The 2025 World Rally Championship season will incorporate additional host countries, and consist of a total of 14 rounds.
Among these, FORUM8 Rally Japan 2025, which will act as round 13 of the World Rally Championship 2025 season, will be held from 6 to 9 November 2025 in Aichi and Gifu prefectures.
Information on FORUM8 Rally Japan 2024, which will be held from Thursday, 21 November to Sunday, 24 November 2024, including the competition course, a new key visual, a promotional video, a new price structure for spectator tickets and entertainment content at Toyota Stadium, which will also serve as the event’s base, was announced on Wednesday, 17 July. Further plans for various exciting projects are being planned and will be announced in the form of press releases in due course.
The FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) is one of the world championships organised by the FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile) alongside Formula 1, the World Endurance Championship (WEC) and Formula E. It is the world’s premier rally championship with over 50 years of history and tradition since its foundation in 1973.
In Europe, where rallying is very popular, it has become a major event, which can attract more than one million spectators over four days. The WRC is a year-long competition held on public roads around the world, with dozens of rally cars competing for the annual championship title, and the scenes of dozens of rally cars racing along roads in a variety of conditions attract fans from all over the world.
The final round (round 13) of the 2024 season of the World Rally Championship (WRC) to be held in Japan.
■Event name FIA World Rally Championship（WRC）FORUM8 Rally Japan
■Organiser Toyota Motorsports Club / M.O.S.C.O. / Toyota City
■Promoter Rally Japan 2024 Commission (Toyota City, Ena City, Toyota Motorsports Club, M.O.S.C.O., Toyota Machizukuri Corporation)
■Duration Thursday 21 – Sunday 24 November 2024.
■Rally course: Toyota City / Okazaki City / Shinshiro City / Shitara Town, Aichi Prefecture / Ena City / Nakatsugawa City, Gifu Prefecture
■Service park: Toyota Stadium (Sengoku-cho, Toyota City)
■Spectator tickets Pre-sales start on Wednesday 17 July 2024 *General sales start on Saturday 24 August.
*For more information on ticket sales, see the official website of the conference.
■ Official website https://rally-japan.jp/
