Round 6 of the All Japan Rally Championship Monterey 2021 was held on June 13th with no spectators.
This year's Monterey changed its base from Tsumagoi Village to Takasaki City, and changed to a new course that uses tarmac forest roads.
In the JN1 class, Takuma Kamada / Yuichi Matsumoto was on the podium in the second race after returning from injury, and Toshihiro Arai / Naoya Tanaka were retired in two consecutive races. Hiroki Arai has not participated this time due to injury.

In the JN2 class, Heikki Kovalainen / Sai Kitagawa won the championship in two consecutive races at an overwhelming speed.
Katsuya Nakahira / Masahiko Shimazu won 2nd place, Hironao Ishii / Noriko Takeshita won 3rd place and monopolized the podium.

Unfortunately, I missed the victory in the JN3 class, but Kiyoji Yamaguchi / Kenta Satonaka took 2nd place, Takahito Sone / Shizuka Takehara took 3rd place, Takashi Suzuki / Norimasa Yamagishi took 4th place, and Katsuhiko Tsutsui / Yuichi Ishida is 6th,
Takehiko Kano / Satoshi Yokote finished 7th (Genki Takeuchi / Satoshi Kimura unfortunately retired)
The top group is always formed by athletes with WORK wheels.

In this rally, there were no WORK users in the JN4 and JN5 classes, but in the JN6 class, Kosuke Murata / Madoka Umemoto took second place and the podium.

Next time will be Rally Kamui (Hokkaido), which will be held from July 2nd to 4th.
In the JN1 class, where high-speed battles are inevitable, Arai and Kamada are good at gravel (unpaved) rallies!
We look forward to the success of all the players, and we look forward to your continued support.