Round-5China
20-21 October 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 |
China News Review
New Format for 2019 APRC
9 Dec 2018 - FIA Release
The format of the FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship will be changed in 2019 to help competitors with logistics and add value to the title.
28 Oct 2018 - Brian Young - Asia Pacific Sports Media
China Rally made a welcome return to the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship and as always the Longyou based event (400km SW of Shanghai) proved a huge challenge with a mixture of super-fast concrete roads and twisty narrow mountain tracks.
20 Sep 2018 - Brian - APSM
Japan’s Yuya Sumiyama has won his home event the APRC Rally of Hokkaido and by doing so, secures the 2018 FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship driver’s title with one round, the China Rally to go.
9 Sep 2018 - Martin Holmes - RallySportmag
Uncertain times for the organisers of Hokkaido Rally (14-16 September, fourth round in the FIA Asia Pacific regional championship) following huge earthquake damage and casualties in the northern Japanese island where the event is held.
20 Aug 2018 - Brian Young - APSM
Former APRC Champion Jan Kopecký (CZE) staged an amazing comeback drive to win the WRC2 category at 2018 ADAC Rallye Deutschland by 3.8 seconds!
8 Aug 2018 - APRC Release
The entry-list for Japan’s round of the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship, Rally Hokkaido has been bolstered by seven local drivers registering for the series.
28 Jul 2018 - APRC News Release
India’s Vicky Chandhok was unanimously re-elected President of the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship Working Group for a second two-year term at the annual meeting in Johor, Malaysia, on Monday, July 23.
28 Jul 2018 - Brian Young - APSM
Japanese driver Yuya Sumiyama survived a Day 2 off-road excursion to win the APRC Rally of Johor, Malaysia and extend his points lead.
20 Jul 2018 - Brian Young - APSM
After two rounds in the Pacific, the 2018 FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship moves to Asia and the International Rally of Johor. Forchampionship leader Yuya Sumiyama from Japan, his goal is simply to finish and score points.
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.