{"id":1330,"date":"2023-11-17T06:49:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T21:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1330"},"modified":"2023-11-17T06:49:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T21:49:52","slug":"opening-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/news\/topics\/opening-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The opening ceremony for the 13th round of the WRC, Forum 8 Rally Japan, was held at Toyota Stadium on 16 November. After a performance by the Aichi Prefectural Police Band, a special film was played to open the event, followed by a spectacular sound and light performance and fireworks to celebrate the start of Rally Japan.<br><br>Each driver then entered the track. After a &#8216;Meet the Crew&#8217; session for the media, where each driver was introduced, followed by remarks on their aspirations for the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Takamoto Katsuta, who finished on the podium in third place at last year&#8217;s event, commented on the shake-down: &#8220;At first we didn&#8217;t have the right settings and the balance wasn&#8217;t right, but then we made adjustments and it got better in the second and third runs, so I don&#8217;t think it will be a problem if it&#8217;s dry.&#8221; He added, &#8220;The track surface was dirtier than last year during recce, but they seem to have cleaned it up afterwards, so I think the situation will change depending on how much rain we get. We will aim for a better result than last year.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" data-id=\"1337\"  src=\"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/rj1en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/LINE_ALBUM_\u30bb\u30ec\u30e2\u30cb\u30fc_231116_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1337\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" data-id=\"1335\"  src=\"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/rj1en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/LINE_ALBUM_\u30bb\u30ec\u30e2\u30cb\u30fc_\uff13.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1335\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" data-id=\"1333\"  src=\"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/rj1en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/LINE_ALBUM_\u30bb\u30ec\u30e2\u30cb\u30fc_\uff16.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1333\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" data-id=\"1336\"  src=\"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/rj1en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/LINE_ALBUM_\u30bb\u30ec\u30e2\u30cb\u30fc_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1336\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" data-id=\"1334\"  src=\"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/rj1en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/LINE_ALBUM_\u30bb\u30ec\u30e2\u30cb\u30fc_\uff15.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1334\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1335,"parent":0,"template":"","cat_news":[2],"tag_news":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1330\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cat_news","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_news?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"tag_news","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag_news?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}