While most of the APRC teams have headed off on holiday before the 2012 season, hard-working Kiwis Brian Green and Fleur Pedersen have wrapped up another season with victory in the Rally Thailand Kings Cup. Held in the Saraburi and Lop Buri provinces of central Thailand, the rally is a tricky combination of tarmac and […]
Leading from the very first stage Scotland’s Alister McRae and co-driver Bill Hayes drove an exceptional event to win the China Rally and win the Asia Pacific Rally Championship drivers and co-drivers title. It was a clean sweep of trophies for Proton as the Malaysian manufacturer won the manufacturers championship, the Teams Trophy, the Asia […]
Australian Chris Atkinson is the first international driver to win the International Rally of Whangarei, taking victory in the two-day event by 12.4 seconds from Kiwi star Hayden Paddon. Masterton’s Richard Mason finished third overall. Having won the Whangarei event three times since its inception in 2007, Paddon was the odds-on favourite to take another […]
The third round of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship was held on the beautiful Pacific island of New Caledonia, however it proved to be no holiday for the drivers. Retirements and crashes took out several of the top runners. First to go was local man Jean-Louis Leyraud who went off at high-speed and although his […]
British Driver Mark Higgins has won the International Rally of Queensland but it was only on the very last stage that he managed to finally grab the win. The two day event held on the Sunshine Coast had several leaders, including Australian Chris Atkinson who led from the first stage in his Proton Satria. Electrical […]
