Popular APRC driver Jussi Valimaki has bounced back in the Finnish Rally Championship, with an outright win at the third and final winter round of his national series. Back to defend his 2007 Group-A Finnish title, it was the first time Valimaki and his co-driver Jarkko Kalliolepo had managed to claim an overall event victory, […]

MRF new signing Scott Pedder, and his long-term co-driver Glen Weston, have had their first taste of the Lancer Evo IX they will pilot in this years APRC. Last week Pedder and Weston completed a successful private test session just outside of Perth, home base for Race Torque Engineering, the team that prepares the MRF […]

APRC regular Rifat Sungkar, and his new co-driver Bill Hayes, have completed a trouble-free run in the first event of the Indonesian national rally series. Held over the weekend in the Banyuasin Regency rubber plantation, the event was won by Englishman David Maslen and his co-driver Sean Gelael. Driving a Subaru Impreza WRX, Maslen held […]

After contesting three APRC events with Eli Evans in 2006, Chris Murphy is set to make a comeback to the series, this time sitting beside Cusco driver Dean Herridge. The new partnership was formed as a result of Herridge’s regular co-driver, Bill Hayes, teaming up with Rifat Sungkar for the full APRC season. Speaking from […]

Understandably, there’s been a lot attention given to new drivers and new teams entering the APRC this year. But there’s also plenty of change happening inside the team that dominated series last year. MotorImage will embark on their 2008 campaign with the same driver line-up and key personnel, but there’s a new addition to the […]

One of the exciting things about the start of each season is finding out which drivers and teams are returning to the APRC, and who will be added to the series. This year, much of the attention has been on Cusco Racing, the Japanese team expanding to two cars this year. And to make the […]

Three-time APRC champ Karamjit Singh has revealed to the The New Strait Times that he will race again the series this year, contesting the four rounds of the Asia Cup. “I’m gonna do a new championship called the Asia Cup, which is basically for people like me who don’t have enough money. You just do […]

Former Ralliart Australia driver Scott Pedder will contest the full APRC series in an MRF Mitsubishi. Rumours circulating for the last week that Pedder, and his long-term co-driver Glen Weston, would join the MRF squad have proven to be true, the Victorian replacing Jussi Valimaki. “This is incredibly exciting for both Glen and I. The […]

There’s set to be an influx of Aussies in the APRC this year. Hot on the heels of Dean Herridges entry into the series, another Australian looks set to join the APRC for the full series. Although final details are yet to be ironed out, the driver, well-known to Australian rally fans, hopes to be […]

By Anand Philar. Source: sify.com. Last week was historic for Indian motorsport and it had nothing to do with Formula One or GP2 series. Rather, it was Velappan Rajendran Naren Kumar confirming his participation in the World Rally Championship (Production class), the first Indian to do so. You can liken it to Naren Karthikeyan’s feat […]