The first qualifing round of the Asia-Pacific Pirelli Star Driver has just been held in NZ. The top two scorers at APRC Rally Whangerei, Hayden Paddon and Brad Ayling, each won a 5000 Euro assistance package to get them to Rally Malaysia in October. This will be the winner take all finale.

The Asia-Pacific winner will join a Middle Eastern, an African and 2 European drivers in six fully funded PWRC championship rounds next year in either a Group N or S2000 car.

Wondering from other forumers what are your regional events for Pirelli Star and what drivers are expected to be the front runners.

Also wondering from an Asia-Pacific perspective what drivers from your country are expected at Rally Malaysia.
Australia, Japan, China, Malaysia, India etc must have a lot of potential young drivers keen to clinch this amazing prize. Paddon and Ayling will possibly be joined by Mark Tapper also from NZ. Tapper was a front runner at Whangarei but missed out on one of the top two spots due to some mechanical issues during the rally.