APRC round of Rally Hokkaido , the fifth round in the championship was all too dramatic, with the top teams completely out of the podium ...



Dramatically the win was handed over to Japanese Yuya Sumiyama with the trophy, while the New Caledonian Daniel Palau took second place, but the third was taken by ex-PWRC Champion Karamjit Singh in a Proton Satria R2, a FWD car!
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In the IRC scenario, out of the 36 cars only 14 cars made it to the finish with 22 retirements in the entire rally. Yagiz Avci of Turkey won the event with a comfortable 3minutes lead of the closest rival.
Here is a clip of the top 3..
The Ukrainian challenge!
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In what it took nearly a 8 rallies gap for the blue oval to finally clinch the top podium position, finally yielded at Wales for JM Latvala donning the top and Petter Solberg with the final position, Loeb being the filler in between at second.

Here is what Citroen had to say about the Ford threw at them this weekend at Wales.
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