Gaurav Gill leads Malaysian Rally - Day 1 | APRC - 2013

Rally Malaysia, the 4th round of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship kick-started at Angsana complex early Friday. With a single 2.5 km short stage, the competition begun and it was Gaurav Gill in his Team MRF Skoda Fabia who took the early lead. His team-mate the Finn Esapekka Lappi finished second.

As expected the rain had made the road surface very slippery, leaving the competitors struggling for grip in the tight and muddy corners. However the opening shorter stage proved of things to come in the next set of stages, in the Tai Tak Plantation tomorrow.

In two-wheel-drive category Michael Young in his Cusco Toyota Vitz will battle with  Hiroshi Asakura in a Proton Satria Neo.

Tomorrow the action shifts north of the capital, Johor Bahru, over seven stages over 130 kilometres of closed special stages early in the morning. See you there!

POS	No:	DRIVER	NAT	GRP/CLS	VEHICLE	TIME
1	2	Gaurav Gill	IND	2	Skoda Fabia S2000	00:02:15.2
2	1	Esapekka Lappi	FIN	2	Skoda Fabia S2000	00:02:20.4
3	3	Yuya Sumiyama	JPN	3	Subaru Impreza 4WD	00:02:23.7
4	6	Shuhei Muta	JPN	3	Subaru Impreza 4WD	00:02:36.2
5	5	Tomohide Hasegawa	JPN	3	Mitsubishi Lancer 4WD	00:02:52.6
6	8	Michael Young	NZL	6	Toyota Vitz RS	00:02:52.9
7	7	Horishi Asakura	JPN	9	Proton Satria Neo	00:02:56.2
8	4	Sanjay Takle	IND	3	Subaru Impreza 4WD	00:02:56.6
9	9	Chaiyan Longton	THA	6	Suzuki Swift	00:03:03.4