Rally Japan confirms 50 km monster test.
The or𝓡ganisers of the Rally Japan have announced the creation of a monster stage for this year's event, after combining the Kunneywa and Niueo tests, which were run separately in 2004.
As such the Kunneywa-Niueo test will be 50 k⛎ilometre🃏s in length - one of the longest stages in the WRC.
"Running them as one will enable us to decrease the overall leg time significantly," read a statement from the organisers. "This reduc🍷tion is of vital importance, given that this year the Rally Japan will be run almost one month later and will therefore have less daylight hours."

The organis🍌ers of the Rally Japan have announced the creation of a monster stage for this year's event, after combining the Kunneywa and Niueo tests, which were run separately in 2004.
As such the⭕ Kunneywa-Niueo test will be 50 kilometres in length - one of the longest stages in the WRC.
"Running them as ꦗone will enable us to decrease the overall leg time significantly," read a statement from the organisers. "This reduction is of vital impor🍌tance, given that this year the Rally Japan will be run almost one month later and will therefore have less daylight hours."
Kunneywa-Niueo will be conducted twice during the opening day and accounts for almost two-thirds of that leg's competitive distance. As such, drivers will n🐼o doubt be torn between using both opportunities to build a rally-winning lead in a single stage and the need to conserve their machinery. Fortunately, Ral⛦ly Japan's roads are not hard on tyres.
In contrast to leg one's marathon test, leg 2 will feature twelve mainly short stages. The longes🐠t, at 16kms, is the new stag♏e, Menan. It twists and turns through a river gorge and should provide drivers with their stiffest challenge of the day.
The final leg returns to last year's high-speed stages northwest of Obihiro. These are fast and flowing, though with little room for error as Fꦇrancois Duval discovered on the penultimate Panke-Nikorpet stage in 2🐽004.
The popular Satsunai Super Special Stage is largely unchanged from 2004 and again will be run at the conclusion of legs 1 and 🔜2 and in the middle of Leg 3.
Rally Japan, round 13 of the WRC, runs from September 29 unti🅺l October 2.