Round-1New Zealand
05-06 May 2018
| 1. | 05-06 | MAY | New Zealand |
| 2. | 02-03 | JUN | Australia |
| 3. | 21-22 | JUL | Malaysia |
| 4. | 15-16 | SEP | Japan |
| 5. | 20-21 | OCT | China |
| 6. | 01-02 | DEC | India |
News Review
Interview: Gaurav Gill on moving to WRC2 in 2018
21 Apr 2018 - Vaishali Dinakaran - Overdrive.in
The announcement has officially come through about Gaurav Gill and Team MRF making the switch to the 2018 WRC 2 championship. Overdrive Magazine spoke to the three-time APRC champion about how things unfolded, what we can expect from the 2018 season, and what plans Team MRF has for the future.
18 Apr 2018 - Event Release
This year’s 4 - 6 May running of the ENEOS International Rally of Whangarei celebrates 30 years of FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) competition.
2 Apr 2018 - Brian Young and David Thomson
2018 is a milestone year for the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship, the 30th anniversary for the championship that has been running since 1988.
23 Mar 2018 - Team Release
Japan’s Cusco Racing are the first team to announce their plans for the 2018 FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship with two cars entered for the full six round championship.
5 Jan 2018 - Brian Young - Asia Pacific Sports Media (APSM)
Former APRC drivers Esapekka Lappi and his team boss Tommi Makinen, (a four times World Rally Champion) talk about how competing the Asia Pacific Rally Championship helped their careers.
2 Jan 2018 - Brian Young - APSM
As we head into 2018 and the APRC’s 30th anniversary (1988 – 2018), here’s a quick look back at the highlights from 2017 FIA APRC. The battle through the season between MRF Skoda team-mates
27 Nov 2017 - Event Release
India’s Gaurav Gill came up with another mature drive to retain the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship title, his third since 2013, as he led another 1-2 Team MRF sweep in the Coffee Day India Rally 2017 ahead of team-mate Ole Christian Veiby from Norway by 17 minutes, 38.4 seconds.
26 Nov 2017 - Brian Young - APSM
Is the battle for the APRC drivers championship over?? After such a big build-up to what should have been a classic battle between the MRF Skoda team-mates at Coffee Day India Rally, Norway’s Ole Christian Veiby unfortunately had a major transmission problem on Stage 2.
23 Nov 2017 - Brian Young - APSMtv
It comes down to the wire, two drivers with equal cars and equal chances - its winner takes all! The 2017 FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship will be decided at this weekend’s final round, the Coffee Day India Rally
The FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship is spread through a diverse range of countries, climates, cultures and a huge population base of over 2.5 billion people.
In 2018 six events make-up the championship starting in New Zealand with the fast and smooth roads of Rally of Whangarei, followed by Australia’s Canberra Rally, running through dusty forestry roads on the outskirts of the nation's capital city.
The APRC then heads to Malaysia and the very hot and humid Rally of Johor run through the palm oil plantations, not far from the border with Singapore.
Japan is next and the fast forestry and public roads of Rally Hokkaido, followed by the China Rally and the bamboo covered mountains around Longyou, 400 kilometres south-west of Shanghai.
The finale is the Coffee Day India Rally, held on the coffee plantations roads of Chikmagalur, South India.
APRC.TV Ltd has been the official television producer for the championship since 1999 and in 2017, 351 million households in 196 countries watched coverage of the APRC.
Leading international broadcasters include: FoxSports/STAR Sports Asia, FoxSports Australia, Guangdong TV China, CCTV-5 China, Sima.com China, Outdoor Channel Asia, SONY TEN Sports (Indian sub-continent), Motors-TV Europe and Duke TVNZ, New Zealand.