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 teammate 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:
| Constructor | Car | Entrant | Driver | Co-driver | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proton | Proton Satria Neo S2000 | Malaysia Proton Motorsports | United Kingdom Alister McRae | Australia Bill Hayes | All |
| Sweden Per-Gunnar Andersson | Sweden Emil Axelsson | 1–4 | |||
| Finland Juha Salo | Finland Marko Salminen | 5–6 | |||
| Proton Satria Neo | Malaysia Proton R3 Cusco Rally Team | Malaysia Karamjit Singh | Malaysia Vivek Ponnusamy | 1, 3–6 | |
| Japan Akira Bamba | Japan Takahiro Yasui | 1, 3–6 | |||
| Malaysia Kenneth Koh | Malaysia Jagdev Singh | 1, 3–6 | |||
| India Sanjay Takle | India Musa Sherif | 1, 3–6 | |||
| Škoda | Škoda Fabia S2000 | India Team MRF | Australia Chris Atkinson | Belgium Stéphane Prévot | 1–4, 6 |
| India Gaurav Gill | Australia Glenn MacNeall | All | |||
| Mitsubishi | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X | New Zealand Green Motorsport | New Zealand Brian Green | New Zealand Fleur Pedersen | 1 |
| Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX | 2–3 | ||||
| Subaru | Subaru Impreza WRX STI | New Zealand MRU Motorsports | 4–6 | ||
| Japan Cusco Racing | Japan Shuhei Muta | Japan Hajime Hoshino | 5 |
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Race calendar and results
The 2012 APRC is as follows:[1]
Championship standings
The 2012 APRC for Drivers points is as follows:
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Note: 1 – 12 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 are two bonus legs for each rally.
References
- ↑ "2012 Events Calendar". FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2012-04-09.