2011 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship Explained

The 2011 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season is an international rally championship sanctioned by the FIA. The championship is contested by a combination of regulations with Group N competing directly against Super 2000 cars for points. While the majority of competitors are privately funded, Malaysian manufacturer Proton enters a factory team of Super 2000 Proton Satria's for Australian driver Chris Atkinson and Scot Alister McRae.

British driver Alister McRae won the championship by fourteen points from Chris Atkinson of Australia as he clinched in the final round of the championship held in China.

Race calendar and results

The 2011 APRC is as follows:^[1]

Round	Rally name	Podium finishers				Statistics
	Rank	Driver	Car	Time	Stages	Length	Starters	Finishers
1	Malaysian Rally (April 1–3) Result	1	Chris Atkinson	Proton Satria Neo S2000	3:14:49.3	15	233.84 km
2		Gaurav Gill	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	3:16:35.9
3		Alister McRae	Proton Satria Neo S2000	3:23:37.5
2	Rally Queensland (May 13–15)^[2]	1	Mark Higgins	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	2:22:14.2	19	230.79 km
2		Gaurav Gill	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	2:22:30.0
3		Ryan Smart*	Toyota Corolla Sportivo	2:22:53.7
3	Rallye de Nouvelle Calédonie (June 17–19)^[3]	1	Chris Atkinson	Proton Satria Neo S2000	3:01:18.0	19	223.84 km
2		Rifat Sungkar	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	3:02:56.0
3		Alister McRae	Proton Satria Neo S2000	3:08:53.0
4	Rally of Whangarei (July 15–17)^[4]	1	Chris Atkinson	Proton Satria Neo S2000	3:01:26.9	16	301.64 km
2		Hayden Paddon*	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	3:01:39.3
3		Richard Mason*	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	3:03:15.0
5	Rally Hokkaido (September 30 – October 2)	1	Toshihiro Arai*	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	2:07:26.7	19	222.89 km
2		Katsuhiko Taguchi	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	2:10:03.8
3		Alister McRae	Proton Satria Neo S2000	2:10:12.6
6	China Rally (November 4–6)^[5]	1	Alister McRae	Proton Satria Neo S2000	3:00:38.6	13
2		Jari Ketomaa*	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	3:01:53.5
3		Chris Atkinson	Proton Satria Neo S2000	3:02:17.0

* - Competitor not registered for Asia-Pacific Rally Championship.

Championship standings

The 2011 APRC for Drivers points is as follows:^[6]

Position Driver Vehicle MAL AUS NCL NZL JPN CHN Total 1 Alister McRae Proton Satria Neo S2000 3 ^6 4 ^8 3 ^4 2 ^8 2 ^12 1 ^12 153 2 Chris Atkinson Proton Satria Neo S2000 1 ^8 1 ^12 1 ^14 2 ^12 139 3 Rifat Sungkar Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X ^7 5 ^2 2 ^8 ^2 3 ^6 3 ^6 89 4 Gaurav Gill Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 2 ^7 2 ^10 ^7 ^3 63 5 Katsuhiko Taguchi Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 3 ^4 ^3 ^2 1 ^12 61 6 Mark Higgins Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X ^5 1 ^10 39 7 Karamjit Singh Proton Satria Neo S2000 6 9 7 8 4 ^1 33 8 Brian Green Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 4 ^2 5 6 32 9 Akira Bamba Proton Satria Neo S2000 7 8 8 9 5 ^2 28 10 Fan Fan Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 5 ^1 7 7 9 ^2 27 11 Matt Jansen Subaru Impreza WRX STi 3 ^1 16 12 Seiichiro Taguchi Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 4 ^3 15 13 Alain Dalstein Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 4 ^2 14 14 Ben Jagger Subaru Impreza WRX STi 4 ^1 13 15 Atsushi Masumura Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 5 ^2 12 16 Ben Hunt Ford Fiesta ST 5 10 17 Takahiro Yoshii Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII 6 ^1 9 18 Muhammad Udhaya Subaru Impreza WRX 6 8 Emmanuel Guigou Renault Clio R3 6 8 20 Hao Yuan Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 9 8 ^1 7 21 Fuyuhiko Takahashi Subaru Impreza WRX STi 7 6 22 Gunaseelan Rajoo Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 8 10 5 Sloan Cox Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X ^5 5 24 Nathan Quinn Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX ^3 3 25 Razvan Vlad Ford Fiesta ST 10 1

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Note: ¹ – ⁷ refers to the bonus points awarded for each leg of the rally for the first five place getters, 1st (7), 2nd (5), 3rd (3), 4th (2), 5th (1). There are two bonus legs for each rally.

External links

• Official website
• APRC Live Podcast
• APRC News and Video

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2011 Events Calendar . FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship . 2011-03-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110124004742/http://www.fiaaprc.com/2011-calendar . 2011-01-24 . dead .
2. Web site: International Rally of Queensland ‐ APRC Classifications Outright To end of Leg 2 Listed By Classification. rallyresults.com.au . PDF . 2011-06-11.
3. Web site: Result . 2011-07-14 . 2012-03-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120327161619/http://www.rallye-nc.net/v3/common/results/results_int11.php?ral_id=30&&lg=fr . dead .
4. Web site: Result . 2011-08-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720201539/http://www.chrissport.co.nz/results/2011/whangarei/aprc/final.htm . 2011-07-20 . dead .
5. Web site: Official Final Classification . Official website of Federation of Automobile Sports of PRC . PDF . 2011-11-21.
6. Web site: 2011 FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship for Drivers . fiaaprc.com . PDF . 2011-03-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110723232226/http://www.fiaaprc.com/media/2011/03/aprc-entry-list-2011-7.pdf . 2011-07-23 . dead .
7. Web site: 2011 Malaysian rally entry list. malaysianrally.com. PDF. 2011-03-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20110409010926/http://www.malaysianrally.com/download/ENTRY_LIST_APRC_JOHOR_2011.pdf. 2011-04-09. dead.