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	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]	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

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

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

• Official website
• APRC Live Podcast
• APRC News and Video