{"id":2245,"date":"2025-11-06T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/?post_type=news&p=2245"},"modified":"2025-11-09T10:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:26:40","slug":"ss1-inabu-shitara-overview-quotes","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/news\/topics\/ss1-inabu-shitara-overview-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"SS2 Inabu \/ Shitara overview & quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On a dry road with some damp patches, S\u00e9bastien OGIER wins the stage by 1.4s over Takamoto KATSUTA. Elfyn EVANS was third fastest after being forced to slow for a deer. Hyundais struggled to keep pace. Ogier leads the rally by 1.3s over Katsuta with Evans third, 3.1s behind. Kalle ROVANPER\u00c4 dropped from the lead to be tied fourth, 3.9s behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Official Results<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Driver Quotes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elfyn EVANS<\/strong>
\u201cIt was ok but obviously quite cold. I had to slow for a deer in one of the worst places, not ideal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S\u00e9bastien OGIER<\/strong>
\u201cIt was ok. I\u2019m not super happy with the car but all good. On this one it was ok [to get tyres up to temperature]\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kalle ROVANPER\u00c4<\/strong>
\u201cNot really any issues. On this really low speed and narrow sections I don\u2019t have such a comfortable feeling with the car. It was understeer and when you have so many twisty sections it is not so easy. It was trickier than I expected.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ott T\u00c4NAK<\/strong>
\u201cActually it was not so tricky at all, it was nice conditions. Obviously it was not working at all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thierry NEUVILLE<\/strong>
\u201cThere is zero grip but the car is very edgy. I just drove through and we lost intercom a couple times in the stage, so I was without pacenotes for some sections. We are trying to find a solution but we have to see, it might be something internal. Luckily we know that stage well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Takamoto KATSUTA<\/strong>
\u201cI lost a few seconds. it feels quite ok not a big push, long way to go. There as some misunderstanding, l\u2019m not happy. I’m surprised it is quite ok so that is why it is frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adrien FOURMAUX<\/strong>
\u201cIt was a really nice stage to drive. It was much more dirtier than expected. The balance changed for me in the car in different conditions. I just tried to manage it but it was good fun to drive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sami PAJARI<\/strong>
\u201cIt didn\u2019t feel so amazing on the stage so I don\u2019t know it felt I was sliding quite a lot so I didn\u2019t feel so confident. We will try to keep pushing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua MCERLEAN<\/strong>
\u201cIt is busy there is a lot happening. It is good to get it started but I just need to find some rhythm. We were fighting with a bear this morning [when asked what was wrong with his eye].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gr\u00e9goire MUNSTER<\/strong>
\u201cI have never had so much understeer in my life. I hope we can find something otherwise it is going to be a long weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oliver SOLBERG<\/strong>
\u201cIt was the first time really trying the hard tyre and I didn\u2019t really have the feeling. It got a little bit better during the run. It is not a nice feeling. It doesn\u2019t feel good with this. It is the first time doing this rally so it is very important for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gus GREENSMITH<\/strong>
\u201cIt felt quite ok, maybe at the end I could have been more committed. I thought we would be a little bit closer\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nikolay GRYAZIN<\/strong>
\u201cFor me the feeling in the car is good.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jan SOLANS<\/strong>
\u201cIt was not so bad maybe not perfect I kept sliding on the rear. I had some small issues with the wipers but everything is fine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alejandro CACH\u00d3N<\/strong>
\u201cIt was very tricky. I just tried to do improve my confidence and not to stress there tyre. It is very narrow with lots of corners. If you push at the start the tyre suffers a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuki YAMAMOTO<\/strong>
\u201cNot an easy stage but the conditions is ok. It was not a perfect feeling in the car with big understeer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2252,"parent":0,"template":"","cat_news":[2],"tag_news":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2245"}],"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":7,"href":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2245\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cat_news","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_news?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"tag_news","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rally-japan.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag_news?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}