Triple APRC champion Cody Crocker doesn’t seem to be growing weary of the title, taking a comfortable victory at Rally Queensland to jump into the championship lead. As was the case yesterday, MRF driver Katsu Taguchi could only chase the local hero. Only a puncture during Sunday’s opening stage was able to slow Motor Image […]
A change of venue has helped Cody Crocker get a jump on the rest of the APRC field today in Queensland. For many years the Australian round of the series had run through the dusty forests of Canberra, the conditions well-known to the APRC regulars. But a change of venue to Queensland has handed Crocker […]
The latest addition to Rally Queensland took a slightly different approach to race preparation on Wednesday. Instead of finely tuning their cars, and memorising race notes, Shanghai FCACA Rally Team took to Australia Zoo to get accustomed with the local wildlife. Wang Rui and Xiao Song, who helped their team to the Chinese Championship last […]
It was one of the strangest rallies in the APRC’s history. We catch up with all the highlight, lowlights, and torrential rain of Rally New Caledonia, as another great season kicks off in the APRC.
The ‘Times of India’ has reported MRF is set to confirm a full APRC program for 2009, starting at Rally Queensland in a just few weeks time. According to the media report, the two car team will feature Gaurav Gill and co-driver Glenn McNeall, with Katsu Taguchi and Mark Stacey piloting a second MRF Lancer. […]
Any opportunity for APRC contenders Jean-Louis Leyraud, Brian Green, and Hayden Paddon to score bonus points at Rally New Caledonia were washed away last night. Torrential overnight rain in the mountains near La Foa made today’s stages, Katrikoin and Boghan, impassable and were cancelled by rally organisers. Katrikoin is well-known as a rough and wet […]
The 2009 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship has kicked off with a torturous Leg 1 in New Caledonia. With just three APRC-registered crews competing on the island paradise, local veteran Jean-Louis Leyraud and Kiwis Brian Green and Hayden Paddon, the event has extracted a heavy toll with none of the crews making to the end of Saturday’s […]
Multiple New Caledonian Rally Champion Jean-Louis Leyraud has confirmed his entry for the 2009 Pacific Cup, by entering his home event and APRC events in Australia and New Zealand. “I planned to do the whole APRC , but I didn’t find the budget and therefore I’m entering Pacific Cup again this year”. Leyraud finished third […]
Another sign of the tough economic times, Cusco, the Japanese team which switched from Subaru to Mitsubishi at the end of last year, have announced a reduced APRC schedule for 2009. The Cusco EVO Xs of Hiroshi Yanagisawa and Yuya Sumijama will contest the final four events of the 2009 season, rallies Hokkaido, Malaysia, Indonesia […]
Gaurav Gill almost pulled off a fighting top-eight finish at Rally Cyprus, only to retire on the road section after the final competitive stage. After completing the last of the tricky Sunday stages, Gill had maintained eighth place among the PWRC teams, with two championship points in the bag. But on the transport stage back […]
