Arai/Hall: On Day1 the crew had slight problems with timing of pacenotes in SS2, but finished the day without big problems overall. The first stage on Day2 started well with good speed control, and their split times showed that they were in top three pace. After around 20kms of the stage, there was a delayed pacenote information and the car was forced to turn too early into the corner with too much speed, then it hit a rock and rolled heavily to the other side of the road. After the crash the car got major damages and Arai had some pain in his left arm, but it wasn't a serious injury and both crew were ok.
Katsuta/Adachi: Because of an accident happened during the driving training, their car was changed to a Group N car. Although Katsuta was not yet familiar with the car, he showed a clean run on the first stage of Day1. Day2 started with SS3 and SS4 was going normally without bigger mistakes. But an accdient happedned two kilometers before the finish. Katsuta drove too fast into a left hand corner and got a wide line into the ditch and rolled the car. The car wasn't damaged too badly and they were able to finish the stage, but with broken radiator they had to retier after SS4.