International Rally of Johor

• Supplementary Regulations, entry forms, testing and accommodation request forms are available on the rally website www.malaysianrally.com
• I am working with organisers on the layout of the service park/pre-event service area at Johor Circuit. Final details will be advised asap.
• Forms for applying for the ICP (local registration and 3rd party insurance) will be available online soon. As this process can take some time, I recommend that this be done as soon as possible.
• Team containers are expected to be delivered to the Johor Circuit, on Saturday 5 August. If possible, I am planning for the customs inspection process to take place on Sunday 6 August. I will be onsite for this. I will confirm once details have been finalised.
• For the export to Japan following Rally of Johor, it is expected that export customs inspections will take place on Monday afternoon, 14 August at Johor Circuit. This means team containers will need to be packed and ready for inspection by approx midday on Monday 14 August.

APRC Working Group meeting

• The annual APRC Working Group meeting is expected to be held on Monday 14 August, following Rally of Johor.
• Final details are yet to be confirmed, however, this meeting is likely to take place in Singapore. Once details are confirmed, I will keep you all updated.
• The Working Group meeting is an important part of the planning and management of APRC. As teams have discovered in recent years, the WG wants to hear the views of teams/competitors. Your presence at the meeting is important, your views and opinions are valuable and necessary to make the APRC better.

Rally Hokkaido

• Supplementary Regulations are expected to be available any day.
• A reminder to teams and competitors. It is now a requirement for the holders of the FIA carnets to present themselves to Japan Customs in Tomakomai.
• FIA carnet holders MUST present themselves, with their passports, to the Tomakomai Customs office on Friday 8 September at 9 am. In association with my agent in Tomakomai, we are working on a plan to do this as a group. Once confirmed I will provide details.
• The most important thing at this stage is that you are in Tomakomai on Friday 8 August. This will normally mean you would need to fly in to Sapporo airport Thursday night or early Friday morning.

Asia Cup registration, APRC regulation change

• A reminder that registrations for Asia Cup now close on Friday 21 July, the same date as close of entries for Rally of Johor. Registration forms are available on the APRC website www.fiaaprc.com
• With the cancellation of China Rally, Asia Cup will now consist of 3 rallies, Malaysia, Japan and India. All 3 rounds will count towards final results for Asia Cup, APRC 2 Asia Cup and APRC 3 Asia Cup.
• The APRC executive, and with approval of the FIA Rallies Commission, has agreed to waive the requirement under APRC Regulations (2017 FIA RRSR V4) Art 5.3 and Art 5.4.3 where competitors are required to pay the entry fee to organisers for all nominated rallies, even if any rallies are not entered or competed in.
• Please note that the above changes are effective for 2017 only. There is expected to be a revision of registration requirements prior to 2018. All other requirements of APRC registration have NOT changed for 2017.
• If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact me directly.

2WD APRC 3 Cars available

Have you ever wanted to seriously compete in APRC, and are comfortable driving a state of the art 2WD R2 rally car?

There will be RHD R2 cars available from Rally of Johor onwards, for use in Asia Cup, Malaysia, Japan and India. And for a full APRC programme in 2018. If you would like to know more about these cars, please just drop me an email.

If you have any questions at all on any of the above, or any other aspect of APRC 2017, please feel free to contact me directly.

 

If having problems accessing or downloading any of the forms and information as mentioned above, please contact me directly and I can email copies.

Murray Brown
APRC Coordinator
+63 908 310 5888
murray.brown@fiaaprc.com

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