CROCKER EMERGED WINNER OF THE MALAYSIAN RALLY 2007 (mr7)
12th August 2007

Johor Bharu, 12 August: Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) leader, Cody Crocker of Motor Image Rally Team manages to widen the gap between him and his rival, Katsuhiko Taguchi of MRF Tyres Rally Team after he emerged as the winner of the Malaysian Rally 2007 (mr7) which was also the Fifth Round of the APRC. MORE >

CLASH OF THE TITANS
10th August 2007

Four former Asia Pacific Rally Championships (APRC) champions are all set to cook up a storm this weekend (10-12 August) at Round Five of the FIA APRC/ANCOM Malaysian Rally (mr7) which will be held at Felda Bandar Tenggara, Johor. MORE >

FROM SNOW BANKS TO PALM TREES
7th August 2007

All Canadian Racing Team Takes On Malaysian Rally Challenge

Hong Kong: The plantations of the Johor area of Malaysia are a long way from the snow covered logging roads of Northern Ontario, but that's not stopping the all Canadian team of Andrew Miller and Robin Fleguel from taking on the racing challenge. MORE >

INTERVIEW WITH kARAMJIT SINGH
3rd August 2007

Malaysian Rally (MR) manages to catch up with the current leader of the Malaysian Championship and 3-time APRC champion Karamjit Singh for a chat before the much anticipated Malaysian Rally 2007. MORE >

Round 5 of the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) to be held in the palm oil plantations of Johor, Malaysia promises to be an exciting round with no less than four former APRC champions in competition. At close of entries, a total of 12 teams have confirmed their participation in what is also Round 3 of the local Malaysian Rally Championship. MORE >

P-WRC CHAMPIONSHIP LEADER TO COMPETE IN mr7
31st July 2007

2005 Malaysian Rally and Production World Rally Champion (P-WRC), Toshi Arai makes a return to Malaysia in the upcoming Ancom Malaysian Rally 2007 to be held from 10-12 August in Malaysia’s southern most state of Johor. MORE >

Australian rally driver Cody Crocker appears unstoppable in his quest to win the Asia Pacific Rally Championship for the second year in succession. The fourth round of the 2007 APRC is Rally Hokkaido (8-9 July) and Crocker beat Japan’s best rally drivers to win the event outright and extend his lead in the Asia-Pacific championship. The event was held on Japan’s beautiful northern most island, in fine warm weather, with dry and dusty road conditions. As always the event was supported by a large number of local fans waiting by the road, waving flags and taking photos. MORE >

.YOUNG KIWI TAKE THE LEAD IN HELLA INTERNATIONAL RALLY OF WHANGAREI
Source from: www.fiaaprc.com

Twenty-year-old Hayden Paddon has won the overall honours at the Hella International Rally of Whangarei today. Paddon, from Geraldine, held off a field of 79 drivers from seven countries in the event that doubled as the second round of the FIA Asia Pacific Championship and the Vantage Aluminium Joinery New Zealand Championship.

He is the youngest driver to ever win a round of the New Zealand Championship.

Paddon (Mitsubishi Evo 8) finished 24.4 seconds ahead of Australian Cody Crocker (Subaru), who took out the maximum points in his quest to retain his Asia Pacific title. MORE >

THE APRC COMES TO TOWN
Source from: www.malaymail.com.my

The battle for this year’s Malaysian round of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) will be close, and could go to either Mitsubishi or Subaru. The top APRC drivers will either be driving the Impreza, Evo 9, 8 or 3 in this year’s competition.

So far, 13 drivers have confirmed participation for the APRC category while 17 cars are to fight it out in the Malaysian Rally Championship Round 3.

Among the top drivers to come and excite Malaysian rally fans are Japan’s Katsuhiko Taguchi, Finnish Jarkko Mietinen, former MR5 winner Brian Green, Indonesia’s Rifat Sungkar and his brother Rizal and Subhan Aksa, current championship leader Cody Crocker, Eli Evans, Hiroshi Yanagisawa and Fan Fan of China. They will either be driving a Lancer Evolution series or Subaru’s Impreza. MORE >