The China Rally is the largest rally racing event held in Guangdong

Guangdong

Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...

, China. The first event was run in 1997, and was introduced to the World Rally Championship

World Rally Championship

The World Rally Championship is a rallying series organised by the FIA, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer. The driver's world championship and manufacturer's world championship are separate championships, but based on the same point system. The series currently consists of 13...

 (WRC) calendar for 1999, but was replaced the following year. Since then it has been part of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC). "Force majeure because of government", according to the organisers, led to the cancellation of the event in 2003.

List of previous winners

Year	Name	Dates	Winner	Car	Rally Classification
1997	1st China Rally	11–13 July	United Kingdom Colin McRae Colin McRae Colin Steele McRae, MBE was a Scottish rally driver born in Lanark.The son of five-time British Rally Champion Jimmy McRae and brother of rally driver Alister McRae, Colin McRae was the 1991 and 1992 British Rally Champion and, in 1995, became the first British person and the youngest to win the...	Subaru Impreza WRC	WRC World Rally Championship The World Rally Championship is a rallying series organised by the FIA, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer. The driver's world championship and manufacturer's world championship are separate championships, but based on the same point system. The series currently consists of 13...  Candidate Rally
1998	2nd China Rally	2–4 October	Japan Yoshio Fujimoto	Toyota Celica GT-Four Toyota Celica GT-Four The Toyota Celica GT-Four is a high performance model of the Celica liftback, with a turbocharged 3S-GTE engine, and full-time AWD. It was created to compete in the World Rally Championship, whose regulations dictate that a manufacturer must build road-going versions of the vehicle in sufficient...	WRC World Rally Championship The World Rally Championship is a rallying series organised by the FIA, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer. The driver's world championship and manufacturer's world championship are separate championships, but based on the same point system. The series currently consists of 13...  Candidate Rally
1999	3rd China Rally	17–19 September	France Didier Auriol Didier Auriol Didier Auriol is a French rally driver.Born in Montpellier, and initially an ambulance driver, Auriol made his name as a French rally driver in the World Rally Championship throughout the 1990s. He became World Rally Champion in 1994, the first from his country to do so...	Toyota Corolla WRC	WRC World Rally Championship The World Rally Championship is a rallying series organised by the FIA, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer. The driver's world championship and manufacturer's world championship are separate championships, but based on the same point system. The series currently consists of 13...
2000 2000 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season The 2000 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season was an international rally championship organized by the FIA. The champion was New Zealand driver Possum Bourne.-Calendar:-External links:*...	4th 555 China Rally	7–9 November	New Zealand Peter 'Possum' Bourne Peter 'Possum' Bourne Peter Raymond George "Possum" Bourne was a champion New Zealand rally car driver. He died under non-competitive circumstances while driving on a public road that was to be the track for an upcoming race.- Awards :...	Subaru Impreza WRX Subaru Impreza WRX The Subaru Impreza WRX is a turbocharged version of the Subaru Impreza, an all-wheel drive, four-door passenger vehicle. It is available as a sedan or wagon....	APRC
2001 2001 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season The 2001 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season was an international rally championship organized by the FIA. The champion was Malaysian driver Karamjit Singh.-Calendar:-Points:-External links:**...	5th Rally of China Shaoguan	20–22 October	Italy Nico Caldarola	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI	APRC
2002 2002 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season The 2002 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season was an international rally championship organized by the FIA. The champion was Malaysian driver Karamjit Singh.-Calendar:-Points:-External links:**...	6th Rally of China Shaoguan	19–21 October	Malaysia Karamjit Singh Karamjit Singh Karamjit Singh , also known as the Flying Sikh, is a Malaysian professional race driver in rallying, and was the first Asian driver to win the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile Production Car World Championship for Drivers, doing so on his first try. He has been rallying professionally...	Proton Pert	APRC
2004 2004 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season The 2004 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season was an international rally championship organized by the FIA. The champion was Malaysian driver Karamjit Singh.-Calendar:-Points:-External links:**...	7th TCL China Rally Huizhou	22–24 October	Japan Katsuhiko Taguchi Katsuhiko Taguchi is a Japanese rally driver.-Career:Taguchi began rallying in 1994. He based most of his rallying in Australia and New Zealand, competing in his first World Rally Championship event on Rally New Zealand in 1995. In 1999 he won the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship . In 2001 he competed on the Cyprus...	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII	APRC
2005 2005 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season The 2005 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season was an international rally championship organized by the FIA. The champion was Finnish driver Jussi Valimaki.-Calendar:-Points:-External links:**...	8th China Rally Shaoguan	26–28 November	Finland Jussi Välimäki Jussi Välimäki Jussi Välimäki is a Finnish rally driver, who scored eight World Rally Championship points during his career, with a best finish of fifth on the 2006 Rally d'Italia Sardegna.-Career:...	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII	APRC
2006 2006 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season The 2006 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season was an international rally championship organized by the FIA. The champion was Australian driver Cody Crocker.-Calendar:-Points:-External links:**...	9th China Rally Shaoguan	24–26 November	Australia Cody Crocker Cody Crocker Cody Crocker is an Australian rally and racing car driver. Crocker has won seven titles in the last seven years and with 24 wins and four consecutive championships is the most successful driver in the history of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship.Crocker was discovered in the mid 1990s, winning a...	Subaru Impreza WRX STi Subaru Impreza WRX STI The Subaru Impreza WRX STI, has the highest trim in the Subaru Impreza compact car line, produced by Japanese automaker Subaru.In the late 1980s, Subaru created the Subaru Tecnica International division to coordinate development for the FIA World Rally Championship and other motorsports activities...	APRC
2007 2007 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season The 2007 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season was an international rally championship organized by the FIA. The champion was Australian driver Cody Crocker.-Calendar:-Points:-External links:**...	10th China Rally Shaoguan	09-11 November	Australia Cody Crocker Cody Crocker Cody Crocker is an Australian rally and racing car driver. Crocker has won seven titles in the last seven years and with 24 wins and four consecutive championships is the most successful driver in the history of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship.Crocker was discovered in the mid 1990s, winning a...	Subaru Impreza WRX STi Subaru Impreza WRX STI The Subaru Impreza WRX STI, has the highest trim in the Subaru Impreza compact car line, produced by Japanese automaker Subaru.In the late 1980s, Subaru created the Subaru Tecnica International division to coordinate development for the FIA World Rally Championship and other motorsports activities...	APRC
2008 2008 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season The 2008 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season was an international rally championship organized by the FIA. The champion was Australian driver Cody Crocker. In winning the 2008 Malaysian Rally, Crocker successfully defended his title.-Calendar:...	11th China Rally Shaoguan	08-9 November	Australia Cody Crocker Cody Crocker Cody Crocker is an Australian rally and racing car driver. Crocker has won seven titles in the last seven years and with 24 wins and four consecutive championships is the most successful driver in the history of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship.Crocker was discovered in the mid 1990s, winning a...	Subaru Impreza WRX STi Subaru Impreza WRX STI The Subaru Impreza WRX STI, has the highest trim in the Subaru Impreza compact car line, produced by Japanese automaker Subaru.In the late 1980s, Subaru created the Subaru Tecnica International division to coordinate development for the FIA World Rally Championship and other motorsports activities...	APRC
2009 2009 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season The 2009 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season was an international rally championship sanctioned by the FIA.Australian Subaru driver Cody Crocker won his fourth successive title, the first driver to do so. Crocker's co-driver, Ben Atkinson likewise wrapped up the co-drivers title...	12th China Rally	14–15 November	Australia Cody Crocker Cody Crocker Cody Crocker is an Australian rally and racing car driver. Crocker has won seven titles in the last seven years and with 24 wins and four consecutive championships is the most successful driver in the history of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship.Crocker was discovered in the mid 1990s, winning a...	Subaru Impreza WRX STi Subaru Impreza WRX STI The Subaru Impreza WRX STI, has the highest trim in the Subaru Impreza compact car line, produced by Japanese automaker Subaru.In the late 1980s, Subaru created the Subaru Tecnica International division to coordinate development for the FIA World Rally Championship and other motorsports activities...	APRC
2010 2010 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season The 2010 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season is an international rally championship sanctioned by the FIA.With four-time champion Cody Crocker no longer contesting the series, it was expected to be a more open championship, and so it has proven. After five rounds of the series 1999 champion...	13th China Rally	6–7 November	Japan Yuya Sumiyama	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	APRC
2011 2011 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season The 2011 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season is an international rally championship sanctioned by the FIA. The championship is contested by a combination of regulations with Group N competing directly against Super 2000 cars for points...	14th China Rally	4–6 November	Alister McRae Alister McRae Alister McRae is a Scottish rally driver, who competed in the World Rally Championship. He is the son of the five-time British Rally Champion Jimmy McRae and the younger brother of the late 1995 World Rally Champion, Colin McRae...	Proton Satria Neo S2000 Proton Satria The Proton Satria was a hatchback produced by Proton. Production started in 1995 for the first generation and ended in 2005. The new Satria Replacement Model , known as Proton Satria Neo was launched on 16 June 2006...	APRC