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3 unusual facts about 2009 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season


2009 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season

The Pacific Cup, decided over the first three rallies in the season was won by New Zealand pairing, Hayden Paddon and John Kennard.

Crocker's team mate, New Zealand driver Emma Gilmour finished second in the championship, moving past former champion Katsuhiko Taguchi at the final round to become the first woman to finish in the series top three positions.

Australian Subaru driver Cody Crocker won his fourth successive title, the first driver to do so.


2011 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season

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.

2012 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season

Australian driver Chris Atkinson won the championship he narrowly lost the previous year, beating the Proton R3 Rally Team he raced for in 2011.

The only other rally winners were Indian Skoda driver Gaurav Gill at the Rallye de Nouvelle Calédonie and Malaysian Proton driver Karamjit Singh.

2013 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season

Gill won the championship despite his Finnish team mate Esapekka Lappi winning more events.

Esapekka Lappi

In 2013 he competed in Asia-Pacific Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and European Rally Championship.

In 2013, Lappi competed full season in Asia-Pacific Rally Championship with Team MRF's Škoda Fabia S2000, and selected events in both WRC-2 and ERC with Škoda Motorsport.


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