Race Torque which has over the last 10 years competed with Mitsubishi 4wd cars, will participate in two Skoda Fabia S-2000 cars in the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship 2012.
The change was inevitable with car manufacturers like Mitsubishi and Subaru being virtually out of rallying worldwide, the focus is now on the Super 2000 cars, a category promoted by FIA in recent years.
This switch will now make Race Torque Team the first non manufacture to run an S2000 in the Asia Pacific region and will take on the Proton Team which were competing with an advantage over the Mitsubishi Evo Xs during the last few years. The fact that the Skoda has won the SWRC and the (IRC) International Rally Challenge Championships last year will put enormous pressure on the Proton development team .
The Skoda S2000 will boost Team MRF’s hopes for the APRC title which it won in 2003 (Armin Kremer, Germany), 2005 (Jussi Valimaki, Finland) and 2010 (Katsuhiko Taguchi, Japan).
