2018 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship

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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
Toyota Toyota Vitz AP4 Japan Cusco Racing New Zealand New Zealand Malcolm Read 1, 3–5
Australia Scott Beckwith 2
Australia Neal Bates Motorsport Australia Australia John McCarthy 2
Škoda Škoda Fabia R5 Japan Cusco Racing Japan Japan Takahiro Yasui All
Australia Race Torque Engineering Australia Australia Ben Searcy 2
Australia Australia Glen Weston 2
Peugeot Peugeot 208 AP4 Italy Italy Simone Scattolin 1
Spain Jordi Barrabés 2
Italy Carlo Cassina 4
Subaru Subaru Impreza WRX STI Japan Ahresty Rally Team Japan Japan Mitsuo Nakamura 1
Japan Masami Nakata 4
India R3A PGA Motorsports India India Musa Sherif 3
Japan Streetlife World Rally Team Japan Japan Tatsuro Yoshimochi 4
Japan Cusco Racing Japan Japan Noriko Takeshita 4
Japan Team Has Rally Japan Japan Shizue Haraguchi 4
Subaru WRX STI New Zealand Ben Hunt Motorsport New Zealand New Zealand Tony Rawstorn 1
Australia Contel Communications Australia Australia Andrew Sarandis 2
Australia Les Walkden Racing Australia Molly Taylor Australia Malcolm Read 2
China Subaru Rally Team China China China Xin Shen 5
China China Qingkai Chen 5
Subaru XV China China Cailei Yue 5
Taiwan China Kepeng Le 5
Hyundai Hyundai i20 AP4 New Zealand Hyundai New Zealand New Zealand Hayden Paddon New Zealand Malcolm Peden 1
Ford Ford Fiesta R5 New Zealand Neil Allport Motorsport Australia New Zealand David Calder 1
Mitsubishi Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X Japan Super Alex Troop Japan Japan Naoya Tanaka 2
Japan Hiroshi Suzuki 4
Japan Immens Motorsport Japan Japan Shigeru Ikeda 4
Japan Hasepro Racing Japan Japan Yasuyuki Atsuji 4
Japan Rstakada World Rally Team Japan Japan Hiroaki Miyabe 4
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX Japan Streetlife World Rally Team Japan Japan Masahiko Nabekura 4
Japan MD – World Rally Team Japan Japan Kazuto Suzuki 4
Japan Kumi-Vicic Japan Japan Tadayuki Akima 4
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII Japan Streetlife World Rally Team Japan Japan Takumi Takahashi 4
Proton Proton Satria Neo Malaysia 23 Motors Malaysia Indonesia Tri Arjuna 3
Suzuki Suzuki Swift Sport Japan Wako's Rally Team Malaysia Kenneth Koh 4
Toyota Toyota GT86 Japan Japan Shoichi Amako 4
Volkswagen Volkswagen Golf SCRC China FAW-Volkswagen Team Estonia Karl Kruuda Australia Dale Moscatt 5
China China Yan Wang 5
China China Yundong Zhang 5

Event calendar and results[]

The 2018 APRC is as follows:

Round Rally name Podium finishers Statistics
Rank Driver Car Time Stages Length Starters Finishers
1 New Zealand International Rally of Whangarei
(4–6 May)[1] 		1 New Zealand Hayden Paddon Hyundai i20 AP4 2:45:04.4 18 277.34 km 52 28
2 New Zealand Subaru WRX STI 2:52:30.7
3 Australia Ford Fiesta R5 2:53:35.3
2 Australia National Capital Rally
(1–3 June)[2] 		1 Australia Škoda Fabia R5 2:41:23.7 15 242.89 km 25 18
2 Australia Škoda Fabia R5 2:46:22.1
3 Australia Subaru WRX STI 2:47:37.2
3 Malaysia International Rally of Johor
(20–22 July)[3] 		1 Japan Škoda Fabia R5 3:22:07.2 12 234.40 km 33 31
2 New Zealand Toyota Vitz AP4 3:23:30.3
3 Indonesia Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII 3:46:12.1
4 Japan Rally Hokkaido
(14–16 September)[4] 		1 Japan Škoda Fabia R5 2:18:31.7 17 221.25 km 18 13
2 Japan Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 2:27:51.9
3 Japan Subaru Impreza WRX STI 2:29:42.8
5 China
(20-21 October)[5] 		1 Estonia Karl Kruuda Volkswagen Golf SCRC 2:54:53.6 13 220.82 km 84 46
2 China Volkswagen Golf SCRC 2:59:59.9
3 China Subaru XV 3:01:21.4
- India
(1-2 December) 		event cancelled

Championship standings[]

The 2018 APRC for Drivers points was as follows:[6]

Pos. Driver Vehicle New Zealand
NZL 		Australia
AUS 		Malaysia
MAL 		Japan
JPN 		China
CHN 		Total
1 Japan Škoda Fabia R5 1 13 1 14 1 13 1 14 1 14 193
2 Italy Peugeot 208 AP4 2 13 2 6 3 9 79
3 New Zealand Toyota Vitz AP4 Ret Ret 6 2 13 Ret Ret 37
4 Japan Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 2 11 29
5 India Subaru Impreza WRX STI 3 5 20
6 Japan Subaru Impreza WRX STI Ret 5 5 3 18
7 Japan Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII 4 3 15
8 Japan Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 7 6 6 14
9 Japan Subaru Impreza WRX STi 7 2 8
10 Japan Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 8 1 5
11 Japan Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Ret 4 4
Key
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Did not finish (Ret)
Black Excluded (EX)
Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Cancelled (C)
Blank Withdrew entry from
the event (WD)

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[]

  1. ^ "International Rally of Whangarei 2018". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 6 May 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Netier National Capital Rally 2018". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 10 June 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  3. ^ "42. International Rally of Johor 2018". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 23 July 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  4. ^ "17. Rally Hokkaido - APRC 2018". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 21 September 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  5. ^ "20. Rally China Longyou 2018". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 9 June 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  6. ^ "2018 FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship; Points Summary; Points Standing After Round 4" (PDF). Asia-Pacific Rally Championship. FIA APRC. Retrieved 9 October 2018.

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