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2011 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship Season
The 2011 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season is an international Rallying, rally championship sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, 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 The 2011 APRC is as follows: * - Competitor not registered for Asia-Pacific Rally Championship. Championship standings The 2011 APRC for Drivers points is as follows: 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asia-Pacific Rally Championship
The Asia-Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) is an international rally championship organized by the FIA encompassing rounds in Asia and Oceania. Group N cars dominated the championship for many years but in recent years cars built to R5 and S2000 regulations have tended to be the frontrunners. The championship was first held in 1988, created out of the successful expansion of the World Rally Championship into Asia and linking with the debut of Rally Australia and won by Japan's Kenjiro Shinozuka in a Mitsubishi Galant VR-4. Initially the championship had strong support from World Rally Championship teams, aided by more than half the calendar being WRC rallies and by Japanese manufacturers backing half of the front runners with Mazda, Toyota, Mitsubishi and Subaru all running front running teams. Toyota's double World Rally Champion Carlos Sainz won the championship in 1990, Juha Kankkunen, Didier Auriol, Colin McRae, Tommi Makinen, Richard Burns, Richard Burns and Ari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rally Of Whangarei
The International Rally of Whangarei is a rally racing event held in Whangarei, New Zealand. The first event was run in 2007 replacing the International Rally of Rotorua as New Zealand's round of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC). With the World Rally Championship's move to a rotational calendar means that the International Rally of Whangarei becomes in the years Rally New Zealand is not held, New Zealand largest rally event. The rally also hosts a round of the New Zealand Rally Championship. While originally being a late season event, today it is held in May and is the season opening event in the APRC. The rally has been sponsored by automotive lighting manufacturer Hella for most of the events history but is now unsponsored. The Whangarei area, in the northernmost part of New Zealand's North Island, is a former host of Rally New Zealand. The event has had remarkably few winners over its history with local driver Hayden Paddon having won seven editions, whereas Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Jansen (rally Driver)
Matthew Brooke Jansen (born 20 October 1977) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. He started his career with hometown club Carlisle United, and also played for Crystal Palace, Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers as well as a loan spell with Coventry City. A goalscorer in Blackburn's League Cup victory in 2002, his career declined after a near-fatal motorcycle accident later that year. He won six England under-21 caps and was called up once to the senior national team. After three years out of contract, Jansen went into non-league football with Wrexham, Leigh Genesis, and Chorley. He later went on to manage Chorley from 2015 to 2018. Early life Jansen was born in Carlisle, Cumbria. He supported Newcastle United as a boy. He attended the independent Austin Friars school in Carlisle, where he played scrum-half for the school's Rugby union team, before completing his GCSEs and taking an A-level at Newman Catholic School. Football c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fan Fan (rally Driver)
''Fanfan'' is a 1993 French romantic comedy film directed by Alexandre Jardin based on his 1990 novel. Fanfan or Fan Fan may also refer to: People * Fan Fan (rally driver); see 2013 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship * FanFan (born 1976), Taiwanese entertainer * Mose Se Sengo, a.k.a. "Fan Fan", Congolese musician * José-Karl Pierre-Fanfan (born 1975), French association footballer * Ducan Fanfan, see '' United States v. Booker'' * Fan-Fan, pen name of Frances Irene Burge Griswold (1826–1900) Other uses * ''Fanfan'' (novel), 1990 French novel by Alexandre Jardin * ''Fan Fan'' (1918 film), 1918 American comedy-drama film with Virginia Lee Corbin Virginia Lee Corbin (December 5, 1910 – June 4, 1942) was an American silent film actress. Early years Corbin was born Laverne Virginia Corbin in Prescott, Arizona to Leon Ernest Corbin and Virginia Frances (Cox) Corbin, and she had a siste ... See also * Fan (other) * Fanfan la Tulipe (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Green (rally Driver)
Brian Green may refer to: ;In real life * Brian Green (athlete) (born 1941), British sprinter * Brian Green (author) (born 1951), a pseudonym used by American author Orson Scott Card * Brian Green (barrister) (born 1956), British barrister * Brian Green (baseball), American baseball coach * Brian Green (footballer) (1935–2012), British football (soccer) coach *Brian Green (game developer) (often under the pseudonym of Psychochild), American game developer -- Created the first 3d, MMORPG ever in 1995. *Brian Austin Green (born 1973), American actor *Brian Lane Green (born 1962), American stage actor ;In fiction * Brian Green (Torchwood), The Right Honourable Brian Green, a character from the British TV show ''Torchwood'' See also *Brian Greene (born 1963), American physicist * Brian Greene (politician), American state legislator in Utah * Brian Greene (American football) (born 1972), American football player *Bryan Green Bryan Alexander Green (born 30 June 1957) is a former Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karamjit Singh
Karamjit Singh ( pa, ਕਰਮਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ, Karamajīta sigha; born 29 January 1962), also known as the Flying Sikh, is a Malaysian professional race driver in rallying, and was the first Asian driver to win the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Production Car World Championship for Drivers, doing so on his first try. He has been rallying professionally since 1985. He has won the 2001 Asia Pacific Rally Championship for Drivers, the 2002 FIA Production Car World Championship for Drivers, as well as the 2002 and 2004 FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship for Drivers. He has raced for the Petronas EON Racing Team and Team Proton Pert Malaysia using Proton 4WD rally cars. His co-drivers have been (in chronological order) Ron Teoh, Allen Oh and John Bennie. Karamjit is currently racing a 2WD Proton Satria Neo CPS R3 for the CUSCO Japan team in the Asia Pacific Rally Championships in 2011 after moving from the Proton R3 Malaysia Rally Team Sponsorship d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jari Ketomaa
Jari Ketomaa (born 18 April 1979) is a Finnish former rally driver. Career A former kart racer, Ketomaa started rallying in 1995. He made his World Rally Championship debut in 2000 at Rally Finland. He won the Group N class of the Finnish Rally Championship in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, he competed a full season in the Production World Rally Championship, finishing the season third in the standings. Ketomaa regained the Finnish Group N title in 2009. He also made his debut in a World Rally Car A World Rally Car is a racing automobile built to the specific regulations set by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and designed for competition in the World Rally Championship (WRC). The cars were introduced in 1997 as a repl ... at 2009 Rally Finland, finishing seventh overall. In 2010, Ketomaa is competing in the Super 2000 World Rally Championship in a Ford Fiesta S2000. In 2011 Ketomaa raced in Rally Finland with Ford Fiesta RS WRC and lead after first speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Rally
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katsuhiko Taguchi
is a Japanese rally driver. Career Taguchi began rallying in 1994.http://www.ralliart.com/katsu/profile/index.html He based most of his rallying in Australia and New Zealand, competing in his first World Rally Championship event on Rally New Zealand in 1995. In 1999 he won the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship (APRC). In 2001 he competed on the Cyprus Rally as part of the factory Mitsubishi Ralliart team. He finished eighth overall on the 2007 Rally Japan, winning the Group N In relation to international motorsport governed by the FIA, Group N refers to regulations providing 'standard' large scale series production vehicles for competition. They are limited in terms of modifications permitted to the standard specifi ... category and scoring one WRC point. In 2010, he won the APRC title again. References External linksOfficial website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshihiro Arai
is a Japanese rally driver and team owner. He is the first Japanese FIA world champion. Arai was born in Isesaki, Gunma. He made his debut in 1987 and drove for the Subaru World Rally Team in the Group N World Rally Championship from 1997–2000 and 2002–2003, and in the Group A Championship in 2000–2001. In 2004 he established his own team, Subaru Team Arai, and won the FIA Production Car World Rally Championship for Drivers in 2005 and 2007 driving a Subaru Impreza WRX STI, which made him the first Japanese FIA world champion. He scored class victories in Turkey, Japan and Australia on his way to the title. He was also the winner of the short-lived FIA Teams' Cup in 2000. Career results WRC results PWRC results IRC results European Rally Championship results Complete World Touring Car Championship results (key Key or The Key may refer to: Common meanings * Key (cryptography), a piece of information that controls the operation of a cryptography algorithm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rally Hokkaido
The Rally Hokkaido (ラリー北海道), is an international rally racing event held on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan. The rally was first held in 2002 as Japan's entry into the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship and Japan's return to international rallying. In 2004 the rally was promoted to World Championship status as the inaugural Rally Japan. The following year the World and Asia-Pacific rallies were split into separate rallies with both still being held in Hokkaido with Rally Japan as the WRC round, Rally Hokkaido as the APRC round. It has been throughout a Japan Rally Championship event as well. The event has been dominated by Subaru Imprezas with only one win taken by any other manufacturer. Local driver Toshihiro Arai has won his home event six times. List of winners Sourced in part from:http://www.ewrc-results.com/events.php?id=586&t=Rally-Hokkaido References {{reflist External linksOfficial website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
