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The final round of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship's season 2012 is scheduled for the 43rd weekend at China. Top-gun drivers will be battling the harsh roads in the most dramatic scenic roads, which has all the elements and more.. The roads are winding on the ledge of the mountains are a big challenge to all and makes it more interesting than any other rounds of the championship. Team MRF & Proton Motorsports are the two major teams who would be fighting for all the left over points to bag it. _ ______ __________________ _ __________________ ______ _ _ ______ __________________ _ __________________ ______ _

Round 5 of the FIA APRC, 2012 season is on the word 'GO' in about a day! The rally is famous for the really fast and narrow forest stages & the most famous SSS stage in the woods. Proton Motorsports have maintained the attack with their two Proton Satria S2000 cars with Alistar McRae on car #1 & Finnish Juha Salo in their second car, as their other driver P.G.Andersson is going to attack the stages of Wales Rally GB with two Proton Satria S2000 cars with the second new driver Tom Cave  [from GB]   in the team. So at both the events the four drivers will be driving at max to achieve an anticipated victory on both the important round of either championship rally. Team MRF is not in a very good position as their no#1 driver Chris Atkinson  will also be driving in Wales Rally GB , but behind the wheel of Mini WRC for Mini Motorsports Italia , even so his name is already in the top of the entry list. So Indian driver Gaurav Gill  will be alone leading

Day 2: Update [Rally Finish] There was a turning point for the day's rally & the leaderboard changed dramatically. _ ______ __________________ _ __________________ ______ _ Day 1: Update [Rally Start] At the start line of the rally, all the boys were very happy & full of vigor, but every thing was set to change in short time. Lots of drama on the opening day of the rally itself, when the rains played its dominance against the top drivers & cars of the championships. At the end of the day Proton's PG Andersson leads at a comfortable lead of more than a minute ahead of Team MRF's Gaurav Gill. However, Gill's team-mate & the championship leader Australian Chris Atkinson had his share of problems at the opening stage of the rally & lost over 22 mins to the rally leader! Colin's brother, Proton Motorsports driver Alister McRae sits in third at the end of the day! A recap of the day, in this tell tale video clip. Former PWRC champ

The third round of the season is held at Australian land, expecting a good weather. Team MRF so far is dominating after winning the first two rounds of the season 2012, with Australian Chris Atkinson in the opening round and Indian Gaurav Gill in the second, and aims for a Hat-trick by winning third round! Added to the boost to Team MRF, there is a huge amount of morale support for Chris in his homeland by fellow countrymen & two new homeland sponsors backing up see him to the victory. Listen to him here in this video. While privateer Brian Green in his third overall position in the championship is trying hard to make more points. Not very far away is the factory backed Proton team, with their attack on S2000 and R2, R3 cars with substantially huge numbers. -------------------- After Day 1 the standings are as follows, Chris Atkinson (Team MRF) dominating the lot, He said he loved the experience.“I’ve had a fantastic day at the International

The second round of APRC season 2012, the Rally New Caledonia. Season just got exciting with the Team MRF getting into the S2000 with Skoda Fabia's battle evenly with the factory Proton Satrio S2000's. A footage of the rally winner! Fight for the podium was intense and yielding MRF Skoda Fabia's with first two top positions with Indian Gaurav Gill at the pole and Australian Chris Atkinson at the runner up and privateer Brian Green finishing just inside the podium position. The rally had one of a kind SS route with deep gorges lining along the roadside making it spectacular yet leaving very little margin for error.