FIA APRC to go digital

The FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) will go digital this weekend (May 8-10) with the online running of the International Rally of Whangarei, which can be contested by any gamer of the DiRT Rally 2.0 platform.

The virtual event is being held on the same dates as the New Zealand round that was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Gamers contest each round as a virtual event, accruing automatically calculated points based on their finishing position. An overall winner will be declared once the final round is completed.

For this weekend’s New Zealand round, action starts on Friday with a night-time stage repeated three times. Gamers get a window of time to complete each stage, from Friday, May 8, through to Sunday, May 10.