2018 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship
The 2018 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season is an international rally championship sanctioned by the FIA. It is being held for the 31st time. The championship was contested by a combination of regulations with Group R competing directly against Super 2000 cars for points.
The championship began in New Zealand on 4 May and is scheduled to finish in China on 21 October after five rallies. A sixth event in India in December was cancelled.
Selected entries[]
Constructor | Car | Team | Driver | Co-Driver | Rounds |
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Toyota | Toyota Vitz AP4 | Cusco Racing | Malcolm Read | 1, 3–5 | |
Scott Beckwith | 2 | ||||
Neal Bates Motorsport | John McCarthy | 2 | |||
Škoda | Škoda Fabia R5 | Cusco Racing | Takahiro Yasui | All | |
Race Torque Engineering | Ben Searcy | 2 | |||
Glen Weston | 2 | ||||
Peugeot | Peugeot 208 AP4 | Simone Scattolin | 1 | ||
Jordi Barrabés | 2 | ||||
Carlo Cassina | 4 | ||||
Subaru | Subaru Impreza WRX STI | Ahresty Rally Team | Mitsuo Nakamura | 1 | |
Masami Nakata | 4 | ||||
R3A PGA Motorsports | Musa Sherif | 3 | |||
Streetlife World Rally Team | Tatsuro Yoshimochi | 4 | |||
Cusco Racing | Noriko Takeshita | 4 | |||
Team Has Rally | Shizue Haraguchi | 4 | |||
Subaru WRX STI | Ben Hunt Motorsport | Tony Rawstorn | 1 | ||
Contel Communications | Andrew Sarandis | 2 | |||
Les Walkden Racing | Molly Taylor | Malcolm Read | 2 | ||
Subaru Rally Team China | Xin Shen | 5 | |||
Qingkai Chen | 5 | ||||
Subaru XV | Cailei Yue | 5 | |||
Kepeng Le | 5 | ||||
Hyundai | Hyundai i20 AP4 | Hyundai New Zealand | Hayden Paddon | Malcolm Peden | 1 |
Ford | Ford Fiesta R5 | Neil Allport Motorsport | David Calder | 1 | |
Mitsubishi | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X | Super Alex Troop | Naoya Tanaka | 2 | |
Hiroshi Suzuki | 4 | ||||
Immens Motorsport | Shigeru Ikeda | 4 | |||
Hasepro Racing | Yasuyuki Atsuji | 4 | |||
Rstakada World Rally Team | Hiroaki Miyabe | 4 | |||
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX | Streetlife World Rally Team | Masahiko Nabekura | 4 | ||
MD – World Rally Team | Kazuto Suzuki | 4 | |||
Kumi-Vicic | Tadayuki Akima | 4 | |||
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII | Streetlife World Rally Team | Takumi Takahashi | 4 | ||
Proton | Proton Satria Neo | 23 Motors | Tri Arjuna | 3 | |
Suzuki | Suzuki Swift Sport | Wako's Rally Team | Kenneth Koh | 4 | |
Toyota | Toyota GT86 | Shoichi Amako | 4 | ||
Volkswagen | Volkswagen Golf SCRC | FAW-Volkswagen Team | Karl Kruuda | Dale Moscatt | 5 |
Yan Wang | 5 | ||||
Yundong Zhang | 5 |
Event calendar and results[]
The 2018 APRC is as follows:
Round | Rally name | Podium finishers | Statistics | ||||||||
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Rank | Driver | Car | Time | Stages | Length | Starters | Finishers | ||||
1 | International Rally of Whangarei (4–6 May)[1] |
1 | Hayden Paddon | Hyundai i20 AP4 | 2:45:04.4 | 18 | 277.34 km | 52 | 28 | ||
2 | Subaru WRX STI | 2:52:30.7 | |||||||||
3 | Ford Fiesta R5 | 2:53:35.3 | |||||||||
2 | National Capital Rally (1–3 June)[2] |
1 | Škoda Fabia R5 | 2:41:23.7 | 15 | 242.89 km | 25 | 18 | |||
2 | Škoda Fabia R5 | 2:46:22.1 | |||||||||
3 | Subaru WRX STI | 2:47:37.2 | |||||||||
3 | International Rally of Johor (20–22 July)[3] |
1 | Škoda Fabia R5 | 3:22:07.2 | 12 | 234.40 km | 33 | 31 | |||
2 | Toyota Vitz AP4 | 3:23:30.3 | |||||||||
3 | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII | 3:46:12.1 | |||||||||
4 | Rally Hokkaido (14–16 September)[4] |
1 | Škoda Fabia R5 | 2:18:31.7 | 17 | 221.25 km | 18 | 13 | |||
2 | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX | 2:27:51.9 | |||||||||
3 | Subaru Impreza WRX STI | 2:29:42.8 | |||||||||
5 | (20-21 October)[5] |
1 | Karl Kruuda | Volkswagen Golf SCRC | 2:54:53.6 | 13 | 220.82 km | 84 | 46 | ||
2 | Volkswagen Golf SCRC | 2:59:59.9 | |||||||||
3 | Subaru XV | 3:01:21.4 | |||||||||
- | (1-2 December) |
event cancelled |
Championship standings[]
The 2018 APRC for Drivers points was as follows:[6]
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Note: 1 – 14 refers to the bonus points awarded for each leg of the rally for the first five place getters, 1st (7), 2nd (5), 3rd (3), 4th (2), 5th (1). There were two bonus legs for each rally.
References[]
- ^ "International Rally of Whangarei 2018". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 6 May 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ "Netier National Capital Rally 2018". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 10 June 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ "42. International Rally of Johor 2018". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 23 July 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ "17. Rally Hokkaido - APRC 2018". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 21 September 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ "20. Rally China Longyou 2018". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 9 June 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ "2018 FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship; Points Summary; Points Standing After Round 4" (PDF). Asia-Pacific Rally Championship. FIA APRC. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
External links[]
Categories:
- Asia-Pacific Rally Championship seasons
- 2018 in rallying
- 2018 in Asian sport
- 2018 in Oceanian sport