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.

Constructor Car Team Driver Co-Driver Rounds
Toyota Toyota Vitz AP4 Japan Cusco Racing New Zealand Michael Young New Zealand Malcolm Read 1, 3–5
Australia Scott Beckwith 2
Australia Neal Bates Motorsport Australia Harry Bates Australia John McCarthy 2
Škoda Škoda Fabia R5 Japan Cusco Racing Japan Yuya Sumiyama Japan Takahiro Yasui All
Australia Race Torque Engineering Australia Eli Evans Australia Ben Searcy 2
Australia Adrian Coppin Australia Glen Weston 2
Peugeot Peugeot 208 AP4 Italy Fabio Frisiero Italy Simone Scattolin 1
Spain Jordi Barrabés 2
Italy Carlo Cassina 4
Subaru Subaru Impreza WRX STI Japan Ahresty Rally Team Japan Fuyuhiko Takahashi Japan Mitsuo Nakamura 1
Japan Masami Nakata 4
India R3A PGA Motorsports India Abhilash Pallath Ganesh India Musa Sherif 3
Japan Streetlife World Rally Team Japan Masaki Yamada Japan Tatsuro Yoshimochi 4
Japan Cusco Racing Japan Yasushi Aoyama Japan Noriko Takeshita 4
Japan Team Has Rally Japan Yasunori Hagiwara Japan Shizue Haraguchi 4
Subaru WRX STI New Zealand Ben Hunt Motorsport New Zealand Ben Hunt New Zealand Tony Rawstorn 1
Australia Contel Communications Australia Steve Glenney Australia Andrew Sarandis 2
Australia Les Walkden Racing Australia Molly Taylor Australia Malcolm Read 2
China Subaru Rally Team China China Ziwei Hou China Xin Shen 5
China Yang Wang China Qingkai Chen 5
Subaru XV China Gaoxiang Fan China Cailei Yue 5
Taiwan Dawei Lin 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 Nathan Quinn New Zealand David Calder 1
Mitsubishi Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X Japan Super Alex Troop Japan Atsushi Masumura Japan Naoya Tanaka 2
Japan Hiroshi Suzuki 4
Japan Immens Motorsport Japan Mitsuhiro Aoki Japan Shigeru Ikeda 4
Japan Hasepro Racing Japan Tomohide Hasegawa Japan Yasuyuki Atsuji 4
Japan Rstakada World Rally Team Japan Futoshi Murase Japan Hiroaki Miyabe 4
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX Japan Streetlife World Rally Team Japan Eiichi Iwashita Japan Masahiko Nabekura 4
Japan MD – World Rally Team Japan Masahiko Miyamoto Japan Kazuto Suzuki 4
Japan Kumi-Vicic Japan Kumiko Koide Japan Tadayuki Akima 4
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII Japan Streetlife World Rally Team Japan Takashi Mori Japan Takumi Takahashi 4
Proton Proton Satria Neo Malaysia 23 Motors Malaysia Abdul Kaathir Indonesia Tri Arjuna 3
Suzuki Suzuki Swift Sport Japan Wako's Rally Team Malaysia Kenneth Koh 4
Toyota Toyota GT86 Japan Toshihiro Inomata Japan Shoichi Amako 4
Volkswagen Volkswagen Golf SCRC China FAW-Volkswagen Team Estonia Karl Kruuda Australia Dale Moscatt 5
China De'an Chen China Yan Wang 5
China Guojing Li 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 Ben Hunt Subaru WRX STI 2:52:30.7
3 Australia Nathan Quinn Ford Fiesta R5 2:53:35.3
2 Australia National Capital Rally
(1–3 June)[2]
1 Australia Eli Evans Škoda Fabia R5 2:41:23.7 15 242.89 km 25 18
2 Australia Adrian Coppin Škoda Fabia R5 2:46:22.1
3 Australia Craig Brooks Subaru WRX STI 2:47:37.2
3 Malaysia International Rally of Johor
(20–22 July)[3]
1 Japan Yuya Sumiyama Škoda Fabia R5 3:22:07.2 12 234.40 km 33 31
2 New Zealand Michael Young Toyota Vitz AP4 3:23:30.3
3 Indonesia Rahmat H. Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII 3:46:12.1
4 Japan Rally Hokkaido
(14–16 September)[4]
1 Japan Yuya Sumiyama Škoda Fabia R5 2:18:31.7 17 221.25 km 18 13
2 Japan Eiichi Iwashita Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 2:27:51.9
3 Japan Yasushi Aoyama Subaru Impreza WRX STI 2:29:42.8
5 China Rally China Longyou
(20-21 October)[5]
1 Estonia Karl Kruuda Volkswagen Golf SCRC 2:54:53.6 13 220.82 km 84 46
2 China De'an Chen Volkswagen Golf SCRC 2:59:59.9
3 China Gaoxiang Fan Subaru XV 3:01:21.4
- India Coffee Day India Rally
(1-2 December)
event cancelled

Championship standings

References

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