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 |
Proton ready for WRC Sweden
6 Feb 2012 - Team Release
Winning the FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship is about beating the best in 40-plus degrees Celsius on some of the hottest rallies the planet has to offer. This week, PROTON’s Satria-Neo S2000 faces the opposite end of the temperature range as it ventures north, way north, to Scandinavia – a place 70-odd degrees colder than the scene of the Malaysian team’s historic 2011 successes.
4 Feb 2012 - http://www.rallysportmag.com.au
DUNKO - the inside story of Ross Dunkerton, an Australian rally legend - has been written by another former Australian Rally Champion, Bob Watson. Ross Dunkerton is five times winner of the Australian Rally Championship, twice winner of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship and winner of 37 International rallies, but he is much more than that.
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1 Feb 2012 - Brother International Rally of Whangarei
Leading New Zealand rally and former APRC driver Emma Gilmour is about to head to Geneva, Switzerland to participate in her first meeting as a member of the Women & Motor Sport Commission, part of the world governing body of motorsport the Federation Internationale de L’Automobile (FIA).
1 Feb 2012 - Bill Buys, Community Newspaper Group motoring editor -www.inmycommunity.com.au
Alister McRae begins his year with Proton by competing at World Rally Championship Swedish Rally (9-12 Feb), but he had a frustrating start to 2012 with his campaign to conquer the Dakar Rally not going so well. Read the report.
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.
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.
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