The 2018 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season is an international rally championship sanctioned by the FIA. It is being held for the 31st time. The championship was contested by a combination of regulations with Group R competing directly against Super 2000 cars for points.
The championship began in New Zealand on 4 May and is scheduled to finish in China on 21 October after five rallies. A sixth event in India in December was cancelled.
| Constructor | Car | Team | Driver | Co-Driver | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toyota | Toyota Vitz AP4 |  Cusco Racing |  Michael Young | Malcolm Read | 1, 3–5 |
 Scott Beckwith | 2 | ||||
| Neal Bates Motorsport | Harry Bates | John McCarthy | 2 | ||
| Škoda | Škoda Fabia R5 | Cusco Racing | Yuya Sumiyama | Takahiro Yasui | All |
| Race Torque Engineering | Eli Evans | Ben Searcy | 2 | ||
| Adrian Coppin | Glen Weston | 2 | |||
| Peugeot | Peugeot 208 AP4 |  Fabio Frisiero | Simone Scattolin | 1 | |
 Jordi Barrabés | 2 | ||||
| Carlo Cassina | 4 | ||||
| Subaru | Subaru Impreza WRX STI | Ahresty Rally Team | Fuyuhiko Takahashi | Mitsuo Nakamura | 1 |
| Masami Nakata | 4 | ||||
 R3A PGA Motorsports | Abhilash Pallath Ganesh | Musa Sherif | 3 | ||
| Streetlife World Rally Team | Masaki Yamada | Tatsuro Yoshimochi | 4 | ||
| Cusco Racing | Yasushi Aoyama | Noriko Takeshita | 4 | ||
| Team Has Rally | Yasunori Hagiwara | Shizue Haraguchi | 4 | ||
| Subaru WRX STI | Ben Hunt Motorsport | Ben Hunt | Tony Rawstorn | 1 | |
| Contel Communications | Steve Glenney | Andrew Sarandis | 2 | ||
| Les Walkden Racing | Molly Taylor | Malcolm Read | 2 | ||
 Subaru Rally Team China | Ziwei Hou | Xin Shen | 5 | ||
| Yang Wang | Qingkai Chen | 5 | |||
| Subaru XV | Gaoxiang Fan | Cailei Yue | 5 | ||
| Dawei Lin | Kepeng Le | 5 | |||
| Hyundai | Hyundai i20 AP4 | Hyundai New Zealand | Hayden Paddon | Malcolm Peden | 1 |
| Ford | Ford Fiesta R5 | Neil Allport Motorsport | Nathan Quinn | David Calder | 1 |
| Mitsubishi | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X | Super Alex Troop | Atsushi Masumura | Naoya Tanaka | 2 |
| Hiroshi Suzuki | 4 | ||||
| Immens Motorsport | Mitsuhiro Aoki | Shigeru Ikeda | 4 | ||
| Hasepro Racing | Tomohide Hasegawa | Yasuyuki Atsuji | 4 | ||
| Rstakada World Rally Team | Futoshi Murase | Hiroaki Miyabe | 4 | ||
| Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX | Streetlife World Rally Team | Eiichi Iwashita | Masahiko Nabekura | 4 | |
| MD – World Rally Team | Masahiko Miyamoto | Kazuto Suzuki | 4 | ||
| Kumi-Vicic | Kumiko Koide | Tadayuki Akima | 4 | ||
| Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII | Streetlife World Rally Team | Takashi Mori | Takumi Takahashi | 4 | |
| Proton | Proton Satria Neo |  23 Motors | Abdul Kaathir |  Tri Arjuna | 3 |
| Suzuki | Suzuki Swift Sport | Wako's Rally Team | Kenneth Koh | 4 | |
| Toyota | Toyota GT86 | Toshihiro Inomata | Shoichi Amako | 4 | |
| Volkswagen | Volkswagen Golf SCRC | FAW-Volkswagen Team |  Karl Kruuda | Dale Moscatt | 5 |
| De'an Chen | Yan Wang | 5 | |||
| Guojing Li | Yundong Zhang | 5 | |||
The 2018 APRC is as follows:
| Round | Rally name | Podium finishers | Statistics | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Driver | Car | Time | Stages | Length | Starters | Finishers | ||||
| 1 | International Rally of Whangarei (4–6 May)[1] | 1 | Hayden Paddon | Hyundai i20 AP4 | 2:45:04.4 | 18 | 277.34 km | 52 | 28 | ||
| 2 | Ben Hunt | Subaru WRX STI | 2:52:30.7 | ||||||||
| 3 | Nathan Quinn | Ford Fiesta R5 | 2:53:35.3 | ||||||||
| 2 | National Capital Rally (1–3 June)[2] | 1 | Eli Evans | Škoda Fabia R5 | 2:41:23.7 | 15 | 242.89 km | 25 | 18 | ||
| 2 | Adrian Coppin | Škoda Fabia R5 | 2:46:22.1 | ||||||||
| 3 | Craig Brooks | Subaru WRX STI | 2:47:37.2 | ||||||||
| 3 | International Rally of Johor (20–22 July)[3] | 1 | Yuya Sumiyama | Škoda Fabia R5 | 3:22:07.2 | 12 | 234.40 km | 33 | 31 | ||
| 2 | Michael Young | Toyota Vitz AP4 | 3:23:30.3 | ||||||||
| 3 | Rahmat H. | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII | 3:46:12.1 | ||||||||
| 4 | Rally Hokkaido (14–16 September)[4] | 1 | Yuya Sumiyama | Škoda Fabia R5 | 2:18:31.7 | 17 | 221.25 km | 18 | 13 | ||
| 2 | Eiichi Iwashita | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX | 2:27:51.9 | ||||||||
| 3 | Yasushi Aoyama | Subaru Impreza WRX STI | 2:29:42.8 | ||||||||
| 5 | Rally China Longyou (20-21 October)[5] | 1 | Karl Kruuda | Volkswagen Golf SCRC | 2:54:53.6 | 13 | 220.82 km | 84 | 46 | ||
| 2 | De'an Chen | Volkswagen Golf SCRC | 2:59:59.9 | ||||||||
| 3 | Gaoxiang Fan | Subaru XV | 3:01:21.4 | ||||||||
| - | Coffee Day India Rally (1-2 December) | event cancelled | |||||||||
The 2018 APRC for Drivers points was as follows:[6]
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