2015 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship
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The 2015 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season is an international rally championship sanctioned by the FIA. The championship was contested by a combination of regulations with Group N competing directly against Super 2000 cars for points.
| 2015 Asia-Pacific Rally season |
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The championship began in New Zealand on 17 April and concluded in China on 1 November. The Asia Cup sub-championship will continue on until a 13 December finish in India. The championship was held over six events with a candidate event included as part of the Asia Cup.
Event calendar and results
The 2015 APRC is as follows:[1]
| Round | Rally name | Podium finishers | Statistics | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Driver | Car | Time | Stages | Length | Starters | Finishers | ||||
| 1 |  International Rally of Whangarei(17–19 April)[2] |
1 |  Ken Block |
Ford Fiesta S2000 | 2:54:53.6 | 16 | 281.30 km | 48 | 18 | ||
| 2 |  Pontus Tidemand |
Škoda Fabia S2000 | 2:55:29.4 | ||||||||
| 3 | Ben Hunt |
Subaru Impreza WRX STi | 2:57:02.1 | ||||||||
| 2 |  Rallye de Nouvelle-Calédonie(15–17 May)[3] |
1 |  Gaurav Gill |
Škoda Fabia S2000 | 2:29:16.4 | 16 | 246.34 km | 20 | 15 | ||
| 2 | Pontus Tidemand |
Škoda Fabia S2000 | 2:29:56.0 | ||||||||
| 3 | Jean-Louis Leyraud |
Škoda Fabia S2000 | 2:35:39.6 | ||||||||
| 3 |  International Rally of Queensland(19–21 June)[4] |
1 | Pontus Tidemand |
Škoda Fabia S2000 | 2:01:23.8 | 18 | 227.06 km | 48 | 29 | ||
| 2 | Michael Young |
Subaru Impreza WRX STi | 2:05:25.0 | ||||||||
| 3 |  Subhan Aksa |
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X | 2:08:00.8 | ||||||||
| 4 |  Malaysian Rally(14–16 August)[5] |
1 | Pontus Tidemand |
Škoda Fabia S2000 | 3:05:11.5 | 14 | 226.56 km | 26 | 22 | ||
| 2 | Gaurav Gill |
Škoda Fabia S2000 | 3:07:08.0 | ||||||||
| 3 |  Fan Fan |
Soueast Mitsubishi Lancer EX | 3:26:58.8 | ||||||||
| 5 |  Rally Hokkaido(18–20 September)[6] |
1 | Pontus Tidemand |
Škoda Fabia S2000 | 2:24:49.5 | 20 | 225.35 km | 22 | 14 | ||
| 2 | Michael Young |
Subaru Impreza WRX STi | 2:36:50.1 | ||||||||
| 3 | Atsushi Masumura |
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X | 2:39:25.1 | ||||||||
| 6 | China Rally (30 October–1 November) |
1 | Pontus Tidemand |
Škoda Fabia R5 | 3:08:46.4 | 13 | 230.04 km | 102 | 44 | ||
| 2 | Hitoshi Takayama |
Subaru Impreza WRX STi | 3:42:13.1 | ||||||||
| 3 | Michael Young |
Subaru Impreza WRX STi | 3:58:16.7 | ||||||||
| 7 | Rally of India (11–13 December) |
1 | Lohitt Urs |
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII | 2:22:21.4 | 13 | |||||
| 2 | Satyan Kochar |
Volkswagen Polo | 2:40:13.9 | ||||||||
| 3 | Pradeep RG |
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII | 2:45:39.0 | ||||||||
Championship standings
The 2015 APRC for Drivers points was as follows:[7][8]
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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.
Pacific Cup
| Pos. | Driver | Vehicle | NZL |
NCL |
AUS |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pontus Tidemand |
Škoda Fabia S2000 | 1 14 | 1 14 | 1 14 | 117 |
| 2 | Jean-Louis Leyraud |
Škoda Fabia S2000 | 2 12 | 2 12 | 2 12 | 90 |
Asia Cup
| Pos. | Driver | Vehicle | MAL |
JPN |
CHN |
IND |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hitoshi Takayama |
Subaru Impreza WRX STi | 3 11 | 2 13 | 1 13 | 95 | |
| 2 | Michael Young |
Subaru Impreza WRX STi | Ret 4 | 1 13 | 2 13 | 73 | |
| 3 | Gaurav Gill |
Škoda Fabia S2000 | 1 14 | Ret | Ret | 39 | |
| 4 | Fan Fan |
Soueast Mitsubishi Lancer EX | Ret | 2 11 | 29 | ||
 Dinesh Deheragoda |
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X | Ret 4 | 3 10 | 29 |