2012 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship

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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.

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Selected entries

The following teams and drivers represent the major entries participating in the 2012 season:

ConstructorCarEntrantDriverCo-driverRounds
Proton Proton Satria Neo S2000 Flag of Malaysia.svg Proton Motorsports Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Alister McRae Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bill HayesAll
Flag of Sweden.svg Per-Gunnar Andersson Flag of Sweden.svg Emil Axelsson1–4
Flag of Finland.svg Juha Salo Flag of Finland.svg Marko Salminen5–6
Proton Satria Neo Flag of Malaysia.svg Proton R3 Cusco Rally Team Flag of Malaysia.svg Karamjit Singh Flag of Malaysia.svg Vivek Ponnusamy1, 3–6
Flag of Japan.svg Akira Bamba Flag of Japan.svg Takahiro Yasui1, 3–6
Flag of Malaysia.svg Kenneth Koh Flag of Malaysia.svg Jagdev Singh1, 3–6
Flag of India.svg Sanjay Takle Flag of India.svg Musa Sherif 1, 3–6
Škoda Škoda Fabia S2000 Flag of India.svg Team MRF Flag of Australia (converted).svg Chris Atkinson Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Stéphane Prévot1–4, 6
Flag of India.svg Gaurav Gill Flag of Australia (converted).svg Glenn MacNeallAll
Mitsubishi Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X Flag of New Zealand.svg Green Motorsport Flag of New Zealand.svg Brian Green Flag of New Zealand.svg Fleur Pedersen1
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 2–3
Subaru Subaru Impreza WRX STI Flag of New Zealand.svg MRU Motorsports4–6
Flag of Japan.svg Cusco Racing Flag of Japan.svg Shuhei Muta Flag of Japan.svg Hajime Hoshino5

Race calendar and results

The 2012 APRC is as follows: [1]

RoundRally namePodium finishersStatistics
RankDriverCarTimeStagesLengthStartersFinishers
1 Flag of New Zealand.svg Rally of Whangarei
(30 March – 1 April)
1 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Chris Atkinson Škoda Fabia S2000 2:50:16.116283.28 km2217
2 Flag of Sweden.svg Per-Gunnar Andersson Proton Satria Neo S2000 2:50:44.3
3 Flag of India.svg Gaurav Gill Škoda Fabia S2000 2:52:51.9
2 Flag of France.svg Rallye de Nouvelle Calédonie
(28–29 April)
1 Flag of India.svg Gaurav Gill Škoda Fabia S2000 2:52:35.919266.49 km114
2 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Chris Atkinson Škoda Fabia S2000 2:57:28.1
3 Flag of New Zealand.svg Brian Green Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 3:08:21.6
3 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Rally Queensland
(26–27 May)
1 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Chris Atkinson Škoda Fabia S2000 2:20:52.419235.86 km1410
2 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Alister McRae Proton Satria Neo S2000 2:24.50.3
3 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Michael Boaden (ARC) Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 2:25.33.5
4 Flag of Malaysia.svg Malaysian Rally
(14–15 July)
1 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Alister McRae Proton Satria Neo S2000 2:57:31.515235.28 km149
2 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Chris Atkinson Škoda Fabia S2000 3:22:56.6
3 Flag of New Zealand.svg Brian Green Subaru Impreza WRX STI 3:24:08.1
5 Flag of Japan.svg Rally Hokkaido
(15–16 September)
1 Flag of Malaysia.svg Karamjit Singh Proton Satria Neo 2:30:28.318220.48 km4128
2 Flag of Japan.svg Akira Bamba Proton Satria Neo 2:33:58.1
3 Flag of New Zealand.svg Brian Green Subaru Impreza WRX STI 2:34:29.0
6 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Rally
(26–28 October)
1 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Alister McRae Proton Satria Neo S2000 03:02:33.113230.96 km109
2 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Chris Atkinson Škoda Fabia S2000 03:04:19.6
3 Flag of Finland.svg Juha Salo Proton Satria Neo S2000 03:09:31.7

Championship standings

The 2012 APRC for Drivers points is as follows:

PositionDriverVehicle Flag of New Zealand.svg
NZL
Flag of France.svg
NCL
Flag of Australia (converted).svg
AUS
Flag of Malaysia.svg
MAL
Flag of Japan.svg
JPN
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg
CHN
Total
1 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Chris Atkinson Škoda Fabia S2000 1 122 91 122 72 10154
2 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Alister McRae Proton Satria Neo S2000 4 4Ret 72 71 8Ret 51 10121
3 Flag of New Zealand.svg Brian Green Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 5 23 63 43 43 83 5114
4 Flag of India.svg Gaurav Gill Škoda Fabia S2000 3 61 10Ret 7Ret 5Ret 7Ret 782
5 Flag of Malaysia.svg Karamjit Singh Proton Satria Neo 6Ret4 41 84 372
6 Flag of Japan.svg Akira Bamba Proton Satria Neo Ret5 25 12 55 157
7 Flag of Sweden.svg Per-Gunnar Andersson Proton Satria Neo S2000 2 12Ret 24 4Ret 755
8 Flag of Malaysia.svg Kenneth Koh Proton Satria Neo 7Ret74 2634
9 Flag of India.svg Sanjay Takle Proton Satria Neo 866Ret 1727
Key
ColourResult
GoldWinner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleDid not finish (Ret)
BlackExcluded (EX)
Disqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Cancelled (C)
BlankWithdrew entry from
the event (WD)

Note: 112 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.

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References

  1. "2012 Events Calendar". FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2012-04-09.