Conditions were wet but a threatened giant typhoon held off. The long penultimate stage, however, was cancelled, when on the previous run a Japanese championship car burned out and its remains were embedded into the roadway.In the concurrently run national Japanese championship rally, Toshi Arai beat Norihiko Katsuka (the fathers of the two Japanese drivers pursuing their Toyota sponsored career in Europe) by nearly two minutes, while their chief rival Fumio Nutahara went off the road on the second stage and retired.
Mike Young retired his Toyota Vitz with ECU problems.
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