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 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 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 Hayden Paddon Hyundai i20 AP4 2:45:04.4 18277.34 km 52 282 Ben Hunt Subaru WRX STI 2:52:30.73 Nathan Quinn Ford Fiesta R5 2:53:35.3 2 National Capital Rally(1–3 June)1 Eli Evans Škoda Fabia R5 2:41:23.7 15242.89 km 25 182 Adrian Coppin Škoda Fabia R5 2:46:22.13 Craig Brooks Subaru WRX STI 2:47:37.2 3 International Rally of Johor(20–22 July)1 Yuya Sumiyama Škoda Fabia R5 3:22:07.2 12234.40 km 33 312 Michael Young Toyota Vitz AP4 3:23:30.33 Rahmat H. Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII 3:46:12.1 4 Rally Hokkaido(14–16 September)1 Yuya Sumiyama Škoda Fabia R5 2:18:31.7 17221.25 km 18 132 Eiichi Iwashita Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 2:27:51.93 Yasushi Aoyama Subaru Impreza WRX STI 2:29:42.8 5 Rally China Longyou(20-21 October)1 Karl Kruuda Volkswagen Golf SCRC 2:54:53.6 13220.82 km 84 462 De'an Chen Volkswagen Golf SCRC 2:59:59.93 Gaoxiang Fan Subaru XV 3:01:21.4 - Coffee Day India Rally(1-2 December) event cancelled
Championship standings The 2018 APRC for Drivers points was as follows:
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 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
External links
APRC Live Podcast APRC News and Video