Paddon had suggested in the lead up to Japan that he would open the taps on the Hyundai i20 N Rally1 in comparison to his earlier outings this year; that was partly driven by knowing Japan is currently his last chance to drive a Rally1 car.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s one thing when we all talk about it but at the end of the day, the reality is you can\u2019t force a matter,\u201d said Paddon.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all know in any sport it\u2019s got to come naturally, so it all comes down to feeling good in the car, with the pacenotes, with the preparation and I\u2019ll take the same approach as I had the other rallies.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to push more but I\u2019m not going to go and do anything crazy. That\u2019s how my whole career has been. I\u2019ve always gone about things in a step-by-step approach.<\/p>\n
\u201cSame again this weekend and enjoy it because, hey, it might be my last time in a Rally1 car, so I want to enjoy it as well and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lappi will return to the third Hyundai in Estonia and Finland, with Sordo expected to take up the reins before that at June\u2019s Acropolis Rally Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paddon had suggested in the lead up to Japan that he would open the taps on the Hyundai…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[109840,111,139,69,87697,228869,213,87700,139135],"class_list":["post-449953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-hayden-paddon","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rally-japan","tag-rally-japan-2026","tag-sports","tag-wrc","tag-wrc-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}