Round-1New Zealand
31MAR/01APR 2012
| 1. | 31-01 | MAR/APR | New Zealand |
| 2. | 28-29 | APR | New Caledonia |
| 3. | 26-27 | MAY | Australia |
| 4. | 14-15 | JUL | Malaysia |
| 5. | 15-16 | SEP | Japan |
| 6. | 26-28 | OCT | China |
Junior Cup looks good for 2012
25 Jan 2012 - Brian Young
The Asia Pacific Rally Championship’s Junior cup is one of the best options in 2012 for young drivers who want to gain international experience and media exposure. Based on Group N 1600cc cars, the current car of choice is the Proton Satria 1.6, but others manufacturers that have cars that qualify including Suzuki, Toyota and Renault. In 2012 four events qualify for the Junior cup, New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia and Japan.
23 Jan 2012 - Team Release
PROTON Motorsports dominated the opening round of the 2012 FIA Super 2000 World Rally Championship, winning 12 of 18 Rallye Monte-Carlo stages, before P-G Andersson retired after a day-four fire aboard his Satria-Neo S2000.
21 Jan 2012 - Brian Young
After three full days and of the 2012 Monte Carlo Rally - Proton's first event back in the world rally championship - PG Andersson's Satria is holding ninth overall, is the top S2000 car, leads the SWRC class and is ahead of five WRC cars.
21 Jan 2012 - Event Release
Rally New Zealand has confirmed that the leader in home and business IT peripherals Brother International (NZ) Limited is the naming rights sponsor for the 2012 Rally New Zealand, a round of the WRC, and the International Rally of Whangarei, a round of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship. Brother International Rally of Whangarei, running from 30 March to 1 April, marks the opening round of the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship and the New Zealand Rally Championship.
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14 Jan 2012 - Team Release
PROTON Motorsports begins its challenge for the FIA Super 2000 World Rally Championship glory on next week’s Rallye Monte-Carlo. After dominating last year’s FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship, where PROTON won the drivers’ and manufacturers’ titles, the Malaysian manufacturer arrives at one of world motorsport’s most iconic events for a legendary, five-day race through mountains to the principality of Monte Carlo.
12 Jan 2012 - Brian Young
The first round of the 2012 Asia Pacific Rally Championship is less than 3 months away, with New Zealand's Rally Whangarei the first event beginning 30 March. As a preview to the 2012 event in NZ, take a look back through the eyes of Japanese photographer Hirokazu Somemiya who made the following 'Photo Movie' presentation from a compilation of thousands of photos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsRRzgnPbO4&feature=related
11 Jan 2012 - Brian Young
Television viewers in Thailand, Taiwan, Philippines and Korea can watch the 2011 Asia Pacific Rally Championship this month on Outdoor Channel. Wednesday nights at 2100 (9.00pm) throughout Thailand, 2200 in the Philippines and Taiwan. For a preview to whats on Outdoor Channel watch the following presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPPHfsFDqXo
9 Jan 2012 - http://www.thesundaily.my/news/260126
The Prime Minister of Malaysia Datuk Seri Datuk Najib Tun Razak (pix) officiated the Proton Motorsports S2000 rally team to kickoff the 2012 season as he handed over the ‘Jalur Gemilang’ to the Chairman of Proton Holdings, Datuk Sri Nadzmi Mohd Salleh during his meeting with Selangor industrialists yesterday. Proton are to compete in the Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) as well as the Super World Rally Championship (S-WRC).
30 Dec 2011 - Brian Young
The 2011 Asia Pacific Rally Championship was one of the best in many years, with well run events, an increase in the number of competitors, teams and sponsors. The competition throughout the championship was intense and for the drivers and manufacturers title, the outcome not decided until the final round.
2012 APRC Preview
The Asia Pacific Rally Championship is an official F.I.A. championship that covers a diverse range of countries, climates, cultures and a population base of over 2.5 billion people.
In 2012 six events make-up the championship starting on 31 March with the New Zealand round, Rally Whangarei, a real driver's favorite featuring high-speed cambered corners. Next is the tropical island of New Caledonia on the rough red roads south of the beautiful French city of Noumea. The Sunshine Coast of Australia follows in May with Rally of Queensland, an event that has a great mix of surfaces and speeds. In July is the Malaysian Rally, the first of the Asian events where extreme heat and humidity are added to the challenge of the slippery Palm Oil plantation tracks. Japan follows two months later in September with the high-speed narrow roads of Rally Hokkaido. The championship finale is the China Rally in October, based in Longyou 400 kilometres south west of Shanghai where the drivers face extremes of surface, the fast and narrow concrete lanes through the villages and the muddy gravel tracks over the near-by mountains.
From beautiful south-sea island sunsets to the rugged mountains in northern China this rally championship has it all. Drivers from Japan, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, China, Japan, New Caledonia, Australia and New Zealand compete in the latest rally cars from Mitsubishi, Subaru and Proton.
APRC.TV Ltd has been the official television producer for the championship since 1999 and in 2011, 418 million TV viewers in 196 countries watched coverage of the APRC.