2012 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship


The 2012 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season is an international rally championship sanctioned by the FIA. The championship is contested by a combination of regulations with Group N competing directly against Super 2000 cars for points. Australian driver Chris Atkinson won the championship he narrowly lost the previous year, beating the Proton R3 Rally Team he raced for in 2011. His Škoda Fabia won the Rally of Whangarei as well as his home event the International Rally of Queensland as well as finishing second in New Caledonia, Malaysia and China, building up a lead his 2011 team mate and defending champion Alister McRae could not catch once his Proton Satria Neo started winning at the Malaysian Rally and the season ending China Rally. The only other rally winners were Indian Skoda driver Gaurav Gill at the Rallye de Nouvelle Calédonie and Malaysian Proton driver Karamjit Singh. Super 2000 cars dominated results with only New Zealand driver Brian Green finishing in the top three at any event in a Group N car.

Selected entries

The following teams and drivers represent the major entries participating in the 2012 season:
ConstructorCarEntrantDriverCo-driverRounds
ProtonProton Satria Neo S2000 Proton Motorsports Alister McRae Bill HayesAll
ProtonProton Satria Neo S2000 Proton Motorsports Per-Gunnar Andersson Emil Axelsson1–4
ProtonProton Satria Neo S2000 Proton Motorsports Juha Salo Marko Salminen5–6
ProtonProton Satria Neo Proton R3 Cusco Rally Team Karamjit Singh Vivek Ponnusamy1, 3–6
ProtonProton Satria Neo Proton R3 Cusco Rally Team Akira Bamba Takahiro Yasui1, 3–6
ProtonProton Satria Neo Proton R3 Cusco Rally Team Kenneth Koh Jagdev Singh1, 3–6
ProtonProton Satria Neo Proton R3 Cusco Rally Team Sanjay Takle Musa Sherif1, 3–6
ŠkodaŠkoda Fabia S2000 Team MRF Chris Atkinson Stéphane Prévot1–4, 6
ŠkodaŠkoda Fabia S2000 Team MRF Gaurav Gill Glenn MacNeallAll
MitsubishiMitsubishi Lancer Evo X Green Motorsport Brian Green Fleur Pedersen1
MitsubishiMitsubishi Lancer Evo IX Green Motorsport Brian Green Fleur Pedersen2–3
SubaruSubaru Impreza WRX STI MRU Motorsports Brian Green Fleur Pedersen4–6
SubaruSubaru Impreza WRX STI Cusco Racing Shuhei Muta Hajime Hoshino5

Race calendar and results

The 2012 APRC is as follows:

Championship standings

The 2012 APRC for Drivers points is as follows:

Note: 1 – 12 refers to the bonus points awarded for each leg of the rally for the first five place getters, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th. There are two bonus legs for each rally.
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