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]
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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.
References
- ^ "International Rally of Whangarei 2018". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 6 May 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ "Netier National Capital Rally 2018". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 10 June 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ "42. International Rally of Johor 2018". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 23 July 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ "17. Rally Hokkaido - APRC 2018". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 21 September 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ "20. Rally China Longyou 2018". EWRC-Results.com. EWRC-Results. 9 June 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ "2018 FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship; Points Summary; Points Standing After Round 4" (PDF). Asia-Pacific Rally Championship. FIA APRC. Retrieved 9 October 2018.