The final round of the China Rally Championship (CRC) was held at LongYou, Zhejiang province. This event also served as the final rounds of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC) and the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC). Although no competitors from the IRC series came over to China because the championship had already been decided in the previous round, still many international rally teams and drivers entered this event as competitors for the APRC.

In the CRC series that toured around the mainland of China, SUBARU Rally Team China (the N4 class for 2000cc turbo-charged cars), Yiqi Volkswagen QingYang Rally Team and Shanghai Volkswagen 333 Racing (both in the S2 class for 1600cc cars) have been the YOKOHAMA equipped contenders.

Crowded with a large number of spectators, the ceremonial start and the SS1 were held on Friday. The SS1 was conducted in a twin trial format in which two cars run in parallel on a two lane course, including a flyover, which was the same distance for each car. The benefit of this format is that spectators can see which car is quicker by direct sight. In the S2 class, where the championship was contended by YOKOHAMA users, point leader Wang Rui in Shanghai Volkswagen 333 Racing's POLO registered the fastest time and Ren Zhi Guo in Yiqi Volkswagen's GOLF followed. The contention for the championship heated up from the very first stage of the rally.

The first day of full scale competition, Saturday, was extremely eventful. In the N4 class, Dean Herridge of SUBARU Team China had been the overall leader after a string of fastest stage times but was forced to retire due to a transmission problem in the SS5. Wang Rui also had to retire in the SS4 because of heavy damage on his right front suspension in consequence of a brake failure after some fierce battles with Ren Zhi Guo for the top slot of the S2 class. With many other retirements, a third of the competitors exited the rally on that day. Han Han, driving a POLO, finished the day in first and Ren Zhi Guo followed in the S2 class. Therefore, should this order have been maintained until the end, the latter would have taken the title crown.

As the SupeRally system was adopted for this rally, competitors who retired on Saturday were allowed to rejoin on Sunday, provided their cars had been properly repaired. Since the overall standings were decided by combined stage times for two days, such reinstated competitors would no longer appear on the leader board, but still they were eligible to earn points for Sunday's finish in each class (3 points for first, 2 for second and 1 for third of the total time of stages on Sunday). As a matter of course, Dean Herridge and Wang Rui, who retired on day one, opted for restarting on Sunday. Wang Rui still had a slim chance for the championship title depending on Ren Zhi Guo's finishing position and he tried hard to secure those 3 points for the fastest driver of the class on Sunday.

Actually, those two reinstated drivers, Dean Herridge and Wang Rui, dominated most of the stages on Sunday with desperate attacks and both of them took the top slots of their respective classes for that day. In retrospect, Herridge could have taken an overall win only if he didn't have that transmission failure because he marked the fastest times in almost every stage he ran, so his retirement on the previous day was really unfortunate. Meanwhile, the number three driver of SUBARU Team China, Li Wei, finished third in the National Cup for which only Chinese drivers were eligible and, with the points he earned, the team took third place in the teams' championship.

In the S2 class, after a very tight contention for the championship, a twist awaited in the last minutes. Ren Zhi Guo's GOLF had mechanical trouble during the final SS and he managed to drive through the finish line of the SS somehow but the car halted soon after that. Eventually, he couldn't reach the final parc ferme and was classified as a retirement. This meant that he added only 2 points to his tally for finishing second on Saturday, instead of 8 points for second overall where he was due to come in. As a result, Wang Rui driving Shanghai VW's POLO won the championship title with only a two point gap with Ren Zhi Guo.

As for the National Cup for the S2 class, Shanghai Volkswagen 333 Racing was crowned as the team champion, followed by Yiqi Volkswagen QingYang Rally Team in second. Those top two teams have been supported by YOKOHAMA and, in the drivers' point standings, the YOKOHAMA shoed drivers occupied the top four slots.

Just as was the case with the China Circuit Championship, where YOKOHAMA had already won the title, YOKOHAMA also successfully displayed high performance and quality with its products in this CRC series.