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
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

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 Yuya Sumiyama Škoda Fabia R5 1 13 1 14 1 13 1 14 1 14 193
2 Italy Fabio Frisiero Peugeot 208 AP4 2 13 2 6 3 9 79
3 New Zealand Michael Young Toyota Vitz AP4 Ret Ret 6 2 13 Ret Ret 37
4 Japan Eiichi Iwashita Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 2 11 29
5 India Abhilash Pallath Ganesh Subaru Impreza WRX STI 3 5 20
6 Japan Fuyuhiko Takahashi Subaru Impreza WRX STI Ret 5 5 3 18
7 Japan Takashi Mori Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII 4 3 15
8 Japan Atsushi Masumura Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 7 6 6 14
9 Japan Masaki Yamada Subaru Impreza WRX STi 7 2 8
10 Japan Mitsuhiro Aoki Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 8 1 5
11 Japan 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

  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.