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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 edit

Constructor Car Team Driver Co-Driver Rounds
Toyota Toyota Vitz AP4   Cusco Racing   Michael Young   Malcolm Read 1, 3–5
  Scott Beckwith 2
  Neal Bates Motorsport   Harry Bates   John McCarthy 2
Škoda Škoda Fabia R5   Cusco Racing   Yuya Sumiyama   Takahiro Yasui All
  Race Torque Engineering   Eli Evans   Ben Searcy 2
  Adrian Coppin   Glen Weston 2
Peugeot Peugeot 208 AP4   Fabio Frisiero   Simone Scattolin 1
  Jordi Barrabés 2
  Carlo Cassina 4
Subaru Subaru Impreza WRX STI   Ahresty Rally Team   Fuyuhiko Takahashi   Mitsuo Nakamura 1
  Masami Nakata 4
  R3A PGA Motorsports   Abhilash Pallath Ganesh   Musa Sherif 3
  Streetlife World Rally Team   Masaki Yamada   Tatsuro Yoshimochi 4
  Cusco Racing   Yasushi Aoyama   Noriko Takeshita 4
  Team Has Rally   Yasunori Hagiwara   Shizue Haraguchi 4
Subaru WRX STI   Ben Hunt Motorsport   Ben Hunt   Tony Rawstorn 1
  Contel Communications   Steve Glenney   Andrew Sarandis 2
  Les Walkden Racing   Molly Taylor   Malcolm Read 2
  Subaru Rally Team China   Ziwei Hou   Xin Shen 5
  Yang Wang   Qingkai Chen 5
Subaru XV   Gaoxiang Fan   Cailei Yue 5
  Dawei Lin   Kepeng Le 5
Hyundai Hyundai i20 AP4   Hyundai New Zealand   Hayden Paddon   Malcolm Peden 1
Ford Ford Fiesta R5   Neil Allport Motorsport   Nathan Quinn   David Calder 1
Mitsubishi Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X   Super Alex Troop   Atsushi Masumura   Naoya Tanaka 2
  Hiroshi Suzuki 4
  Immens Motorsport   Mitsuhiro Aoki   Shigeru Ikeda 4
  Hasepro Racing   Tomohide Hasegawa   Yasuyuki Atsuji 4
  Rstakada World Rally Team   Futoshi Murase   Hiroaki Miyabe 4
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX   Streetlife World Rally Team   Eiichi Iwashita   Masahiko Nabekura 4
  MD – World Rally Team   Masahiko Miyamoto   Kazuto Suzuki 4
  Kumi-Vicic   Kumiko Koide   Tadayuki Akima 4
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII   Streetlife World Rally Team   Takashi Mori   Takumi Takahashi 4
Proton Proton Satria Neo   23 Motors   Abdul Kaathir   Tri Arjuna 3
Suzuki Suzuki Swift Sport   Wako's Rally Team   Kenneth Koh 4
Toyota Toyota GT86   Toshihiro Inomata   Shoichi Amako 4
Volkswagen Volkswagen Golf SCRC   FAW-Volkswagen Team   Karl Kruuda   Dale Moscatt 5
  De'an Chen   Yan Wang 5
  Guojing Li   Yundong Zhang 5

Event calendar and results edit

The 2018 APRC is as follows:

Round Rally name Podium finishers Statistics
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   Ben Hunt Subaru WRX STI 2:52:30.7
3   Nathan Quinn Ford Fiesta R5 2:53:35.3
2   National Capital Rally
(1–3 June)[2] 		1   Eli Evans Škoda Fabia R5 2:41:23.7 15 242.89 km 25 18
2   Adrian Coppin Škoda Fabia R5 2:46:22.1
3   Craig Brooks Subaru WRX STI 2:47:37.2
3   International Rally of Johor
(20–22 July)[3] 		1   Yuya Sumiyama Škoda Fabia R5 3:22:07.2 12 234.40 km 33 31
2   Michael Young Toyota Vitz AP4 3:23:30.3
3   Rahmat H. Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII 3:46:12.1
4   Rally Hokkaido
(14–16 September)[4] 		1   Yuya Sumiyama Škoda Fabia R5 2:18:31.7 17 221.25 km 18 13
2   Eiichi Iwashita Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 2:27:51.9
3   Yasushi Aoyama Subaru Impreza WRX STI 2:29:42.8
5   Rally China Longyou
(20-21 October)[5] 		1   Karl Kruuda Volkswagen Golf SCRC 2:54:53.6 13 220.82 km 84 46
2   De'an Chen Volkswagen Golf SCRC 2:59:59.9
3   Gaoxiang Fan Subaru XV 3:01:21.4
-   Coffee Day India Rally
(1-2 December) 		event cancelled

Championship standings edit

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

Pos. Driver Vehicle  
NZL 		 
AUS 		 
MAL 		 
JPN 		 
CHN 		Total
1   Yuya Sumiyama Škoda Fabia R5 1 13 1 14 1 13 1 14 1 14 193
2   Fabio Frisiero Peugeot 208 AP4 2 13 2 6 3 9 79
3   Michael Young Toyota Vitz AP4 Ret Ret 6 2 13 Ret Ret 37
4   Eiichi Iwashita Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 2 11 29
5   Abhilash Pallath Ganesh Subaru Impreza WRX STI 3 5 20
6   Fuyuhiko Takahashi Subaru Impreza WRX STI Ret 5 5 3 18
7   Takashi Mori Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII 4 3 15
8   Atsushi Masumura Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 7 6 6 14
9   Masaki Yamada Subaru Impreza WRX STi 7 2 8
10   Mitsuhiro Aoki Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 8 1 5
11   Masahiko Miyamoto 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 edit

  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.

External links edit

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