Rally Hokkaido

The Rally Hokkaido (ラリー北海道), is an international rallying event held on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan.

The rally was first held in 2002 as Japan's entry into the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship and Japan's return to international rallying.^[1]

In 2004 the rally was promoted to World Championship status as the inaugural Rally Japan. The following year the World and Asia-Pacific rallies were split into separate rallies with both still being held in Hokkaido with Rally Japan as the WRC round, Rally Hokkaido as the APRC round. It has been throughout a Japan Rally Championship event as well.

The event has been dominated by Subaru Imprezas. Local driver Toshihiro Arai has won his home event six times.

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List of winners

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Year	Winner	Car
2002	Possum Bourne	Subaru Impreza WRX STi
2003	Toshihiro Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX STi
2004	Petter Solberg	Subaru Impreza WRC 2004
2005	Katsuhiko Taguchi	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III
2006	Toshihiro Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX STi
2007	Cody Crocker	Subaru Impreza WRX STi
2008	Toshihiro Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX STi
2009	Cody Crocker	Subaru Impreza WRX STi
2010	Toshihiro Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX STi
2011	Toshihiro Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX STi
2012	Toshihiro Arai	Subaru Impreza WRX STi
2013	Gaurav Gill	Škoda Fabia S2000
2014	Jan Kopecký	Škoda Fabia S2000
2015	Pontus Tidemand	Škoda Fabia S2000
2016	Gaurav Gill	Škoda Fabia R5
2017	Gaurav Gill	Škoda Fabia R5
2018	Yuya Sumiyama	Škoda Fabia R5
2019	Mike Young	Toyota C-HR
2023	Jari-Matti Latvala	Toyota GR Yaris Rally2