2015 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship

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The 2015 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season is an international rally championship sanctioned by the FIA. The championship was contested by a combination of regulations with Group N competing directly against Super 2000 cars for points.

The championship began in New Zealand on 17 April and concluded in China on 1 November. The Asia Cup sub-championship will continue on until a 13 December finish in India. The championship was held over six events with a candidate event included as part of the Asia Cup.

Event calendar and results

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The 2015 APRC is as follows:[1]

Round Rally name Podium finishers Statistics
Rank Driver Car Time Stages Length Starters Finishers
1 New Zealand International Rally of Whangarei
(17–19 April)[2] 		1 United States Ken Block Ford Fiesta S2000 2:54:53.6 16 281.30 km 48 18
2 Sweden Pontus Tidemand Škoda Fabia S2000 2:55:29.4
3 New Zealand Ben Hunt Subaru Impreza WRX STi 2:57:02.1
2 France Rallye de Nouvelle-Calédonie
(15–17 May)[3] 		1 India Gaurav Gill Škoda Fabia S2000 2:29:16.4 16 246.34 km 20 15
2 Sweden Pontus Tidemand Škoda Fabia S2000 2:29:56.0
3 France Jean-Louis Leyraud Škoda Fabia S2000 2:35:39.6
3 Australia International Rally of Queensland
(19–21 June)[4] 		1 Sweden Pontus Tidemand Škoda Fabia S2000 2:01:23.8 18 227.06 km 48 29
2 New Zealand Michael Young Subaru Impreza WRX STi 2:05:25.0
3 Indonesia Subhan Aksa Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 2:08:00.8
4 Malaysia Malaysian Rally
(14–16 August)[5] 		1 Sweden Pontus Tidemand Škoda Fabia S2000 3:05:11.5 14 226.56 km 26 22
2 India Gaurav Gill Škoda Fabia S2000 3:07:08.0
3 China Fan Fan Soueast Mitsubishi Lancer EX 3:26:58.8
5 Japan Rally Hokkaido
(18–20 September)[6] 		1 Sweden Pontus Tidemand Škoda Fabia S2000 2:24:49.5 20 225.35 km 22 14
2 New Zealand Michael Young Subaru Impreza WRX STi 2:36:50.1
3 Japan Atsushi Masumura Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 2:39:25.1
6 China China Rally
(30 October–1 November) 		1 Sweden Pontus Tidemand Škoda Fabia R5 3:08:46.4 13 230.04 km 102 44
2 Japan Hitoshi Takayama Subaru Impreza WRX STi 3:42:13.1
3 New Zealand Michael Young Subaru Impreza WRX STi 3:58:16.7
7 India Rally of India
(11–13 December) 		1 India Lohitt Urs Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII 2:22:21.4 13
2 India Satyan Kochar Volkswagen Polo 2:40:13.9
3 India Pradeep RG Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII 2:45:39.0

Championship standings

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The 2015 APRC for Drivers points was as follows:[7][8]

Pos. Driver Vehicle New Zealand
NZL 		France
NCL 		Australia
AUS 		Malaysia
MAL 		Japan
JPN 		China
CHN 		Total
1 Sweden Pontus Tidemand Škoda Fabia S2000
Škoda Fabia R5 		1 14 2 13 1 13 1 14 1 14 1 14 225
2 New Zealand Michael Young Subaru Impreza WRX STi 3 11 2 11 Ret 5 2 12 2 12 120
3 India Gaurav Gill Škoda Fabia S2000 2 11 1 13 Ret 7 2 12 Ret Ret 104
4 Indonesia Subhan Aksa Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 4 8 3 9 44
Key
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Did not finish (Ret)
Black Excluded (EX)
Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Cancelled (C)
Blank Withdrew entry from
the event (WD)

Note: 1 – 14 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 were two bonus legs for each rally.

Pacific Cup

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Pos. Driver Vehicle New Zealand
NZL 		France
NCL 		Australia
AUS 		Total
1 Sweden Pontus Tidemand Škoda Fabia S2000 1 14 1 14 1 14 117
2 France Jean-Louis Leyraud Škoda Fabia S2000 2 12 2 12 2 12 90

Asia Cup

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Pos. Driver Vehicle Malaysia
MAL 		Japan
JPN 		China
CHN 		India
IND 		Total
1 Japan Hitoshi Takayama Subaru Impreza WRX STi 3 11 2 13 1 13 95
2 New Zealand Michael Young Subaru Impreza WRX STi Ret 4 1 13 2 13 73
3 India Gaurav Gill Škoda Fabia S2000 1 14 Ret Ret 39
4 China Fan Fan Soueast Mitsubishi Lancer EX Ret 2 11 29
Sri Lanka Dinesh Deheragoda Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X Ret 4 3 10 29

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