APRC - 2nd Round -International Rally of Queensland

PGrallying · **Posted:** 12 May 2011 13:55

A RECORD entry of 96 cars, including 16 from overseas, is set to make the International Rally of Queensland on the Sunshine Coast on 13-15 May the biggest championship rally spectacle in Australia for many years.

Cars and drivers representing 10 countries, from Australia to Britain and China, will tackle two days and two nights of special-stage competition between Caloundra, 100 kilometres north of Brisbane, and the Mary Valley forests in the Gympie-Cooloola region.

Seeded entry lists published at the weekend include Australia’s most successful international driver Chris Atkinson, two-time FIA Asia Pacific Rally Champion Katsuhiko Taguchi of Japan, British Rally Champions Alister McRae and Mark Higgins, Indian Rally Champion Guarav Gill, Indonesian Champion Rifat Sungkar and the current leader of the Bosch Australian Rally Championship, Sunshine Coast local Ryan Smart.

An undoubted star will be Asia’s most successful rally driver, Karamjit Singh of Malaysia, winner of the Production World Rally Championship, three Asia Pacific titles, his own country’s championship 10 times and the Thai championship, among other titles.

The International Rally of Queensland field is the biggest in the 43-year history of the event as a championship round; overseas entries are double last year’s number. It will be increased further by the inclusion of a motorcycle class for the first time.

PGrallying · **Posted:** 12 May 2011 13:58

13th-15th May
Rally Queensland - Australia
www.rallyqueensland.com.au

All the best for MRF Team - GG and Katsu.!!
Also to Malaysian friends - Karam,Guna and Udhaya..!!

tantragna · **Posted:** 12 May 2011 16:40

wow.. 96 is huge number!!!

All the best GG & Taguchi!

speedaddict · **Posted:** 15 May 2011 10:15

1.4secs into the last stage between gill and higgins..cant get any closer..

shettysunil · **Posted:** 15 May 2011 14:11

Congratulations Gaurav Gill / Glenn Macneall. You guys did exceptionally well.

ignoramus · **Posted:** 16 May 2011 09:02

CONGRATS!! GG. =D>

Unfortunate that he had to drive in McRae's dust after catching him in the last and most important stage...
....else the result could have been different.

shettysunil · **Posted:** 16 May 2011 19:42

ignoramus wrote:

=D>

CONGRATS!! GG. =D>

Unfortunate that he had to drive in McRae's dust after catching him in the last and most important stage...
....else the result could have been different.

Yup. On top of it Higgin's Kumho Tyres Team switched to Pirelli Tyres for the last 3 stages.

Manoj Biswas · **Posted:** 16 May 2011 19:46

Wow!! Many congrats Gaurav!! =D>

That should put him in the lead in the Championship...right?

shettysunil · **Posted:** 16 May 2011 20:17

Manoj Biswas wrote:

Wow!! Many congrats Gaurav!! =D>

That should put him in the lead in the Championship...right?

Yes Manoj. Our guy is leading by 12 points over Mcrae :-)

http://www.fiaaprc.com/media/2011/05/po ... ound-2.pdf

humdinger · **Joined:** 26 Jun 2011 02:08 **Posts:** 1

http://www.sportskeeda.com/2011/06/23/g ... da-puttar/

Came across this one.. a first-person experience of seeing Gill in action in Queensland. Pretty cool. Do share it. Gill the Devil!

APRC - 2nd Round -International Rally of Queensland

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