India’s Gaurav Gill and Australian based co-driver Glenn Macneall clean swept today’s six special stages concluding the 2014 VINZ International Rally of Whangarei – snatching victory from overnight leader and team mate Jan Kopecky. The opening round of the 2014 FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) saw competitors head south for today’s six remaining special […]
Japanese driver, Shuhei Muta, has driven his way to first overall at the 2013 Malaysian Rally, the fourth round of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship (ARPC) despite competing on these roads for the first time in his life but perhaps was aided by the unusually fine weather conditions. Driving his Cusco Subaru Impreza, Muta kept […]
Finland rally star, Esapekka Lappi, has won the third round of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) at the International Rally of Queensland with a significant winning margin of over 18 minutes. Lappi, who now leads the APRC Drivers Championship subject to organisers’ final approval, took full advantage of his fellow competitors’ misfortunes to drive […]
Top Indian driver Gaurav Gill has made it two different winners from two rounds of the 2013 FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship with a dominant display on Rallye de Nouvelle Caledonie this weekend. Gill, who was also the winner on the South Pacific island last season, reached the finish in the capital Noumea on Sunday afternoon […]
22-year-old Finn Esapekka Lappi and co-driver Janne Ferm have taken out this year’s opening round of the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) with a start-to-finish leading performance at the International Rally of Whangarei held this weekend 18-19 May. Driving the MRF Tyres team Skoda Fabia S2000 Lappi extended his overnight lead to a winning […]
Alister McRae has won China Rally for a third time, after a Day 1 battle with Team MRF Gaurav Gill ended when the Indian driver’s Skoda suffered terminal engine failure on the first stage of Day 2. Its the third event event in row where Gill has led but mechanical problems have intervened. Team MRF […]
Yuya Sumiyama’s has made the most of others misfortunes to take his first APRC win at his home event. Day one of Japan’s Rally Hokkaido was dominated by Indian driver Gaurav Gill driving an MRF Tyres Skoda S2000. Gill briefly lost the lead to Alister McRae after incurring a 10 second penalty for leaving the […]
Alister McRae has won a dramatic Malaysian Rally in Proton Satria S2000, where the top spot changed four times. Current APRC points leader Chris Atkinson took the initial lead but part way through stage 3 his MRF Skoda Fabia burst a water-pipe spraying hot cooling fluid through the cabin. Atkinson and co-driver Stephan Prevot fixed […]
Chris Atkinson cruised to his first major victory on home soil and extended his lead in the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship at the Brakes Direct International Rally of Queensland on the Sunshine Coast. Starting with an overnight lead of almost two minutes, the 32-year-old driver for the Indian MRF team took a conservative approach […]
The island of New Caledonia may be known as a pacific holiday destination, but for the drivers and teams in the Asia Pacific Rally Championship’s round 2 held on the island over the weekend this was no picnic. Rally of New Caledonia proved to be one of the toughest and roughest in the six event […]
