2008 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship

The 2008 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season (APRC) was an international rally championship organized by the FIA. The champion was Australian driver Cody Crocker.^[1] In winning the 2008 Malaysian Rally, Crocker successfully defended his title from the previous two years, to equal the record of three APRC titles set by Possum Bourne, Kenneth Eriksson and Karamjit Singh.

Calendar

The 2008 APRC was as follows:^[2]

Round	Date	Event	Location	Winner
1	April 12–13	Rallye de Nouvelle Calédonie	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Katsuhiko Taguchi
2	May 10–11	Rally of Canberra	Canberra, Australia	Cody Crocker
3	June 7–8	Rally of Whangārei	Whangārei, New Zealand	Cody Crocker
4	July 11–13	Rally Hokkaido	Hokkaidō, Japan	Katsuhiko Taguchi
5	August 22–24	Rally of Indonesia	Indonesia	Gaurav Singh Gill
6	October 11–12	Malaysian Rally	Malaysia	Cody Crocker
7	November 8–9	China Rally	China	Cody Crocker

The 2008 APRC for Drivers points was as follows:^[3]

Position	Driver	Vehicle	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7	Total
1	Cody Crocker	Subaru Impreza WRX		16	16	8	9	15	15	79
2	Katsuhiko Taguchi	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo	16	2	12	13	12	3		58
3	Hiroshi Yanagisawa	Subaru Impreza WRX		6	4	12		11	13	46
4	Dean Herridge	Subaru Impreza WRX	11	10	5	6			8	40
5	Rifat Sungkar	Subaru Impreza WRX		5	3	4	5	7	4	28
6	Brian Green	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo	7	4	2		4		3	20
7	Scott Peddar	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo	2	2	8		3	4		19
8	Gaurav Gill	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo				2	15			17
9	Takuma Kamada	Subaru Impreza WRX						5	5	10

^ "Asia Pacific Rally Championship for Drivers - Champions". RallyBase. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-03-21.
^ "FIA Asia-Pacific Rally C, championship". Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. Archived from the original on 2008-12-04. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
^ "2008 FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship Points Summary" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. Retrieved 2008-05-14. ^{[dead link‍]}