2011 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship

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 edit

The 2011 APRC is as follows:^[1]

Round	Rally name	Podium finishers				Statistics
Round	Rally name	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 edit

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
18	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
22	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

Key
Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Did not finish (Ret)
Black	Excluded (EX)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
White	Cancelled (C)
Blank	Withdrew entry from the event (WD)

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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.

References edit

^ "2011 Events Calendar". FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship. Archived from the original on 2011-01-24. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
^ "International Rally of Queensland ‐ APRC Classifications Outright To end of Leg 2 Listed By Classification" (PDF). rallyresults.com.au. Retrieved 2011-06-11.
^ "Result". Archived from the original on 2012-03-27. Retrieved 2011-07-14.
^ "Result". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-08-01.
^ "Official Final Classification" (PDF). Official website of Federation of Automobile Sports of PRC. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
^ "2011 FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship for Drivers" (PDF). fiaaprc.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
^ "2011 Malaysian rally entry list" (PDF). malaysianrally.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-04-09. Retrieved 2011-03-30.

External links edit

[1] "2011 Events Calendar". FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship. Archived from the original on 2011-01-24. Retrieved 2011-03-30.

[2] "International Rally of Queensland ‐ APRC Classifications Outright To end of Leg 2 Listed By Classification" (PDF). rallyresults.com.au. Retrieved 2011-06-11.

[3] "Result". Archived from the original on 2012-03-27. Retrieved 2011-07-14.

[4] "Result". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-08-01.

[5] "Official Final Classification" (PDF). Official website of Federation of Automobile Sports of PRC. Retrieved 2011-11-21.

[6] "2011 FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship for Drivers" (PDF). fiaaprc.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-03-30.

[7] "2011 Malaysian rally entry list" (PDF). malaysianrally.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-04-09. Retrieved 2011-03-30.

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