Proton Motorsports

Proton Motorsports is rally team of car manufacturer Proton, currently competing with the Proton Satria Neo S2000 in the Super 2000 World Rally Championship. The team partner is British based Mellors Elliot Motorsport (MEM).

History

Proton Satria Neo S2000

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Proton participated in international rally events such as the 2009 Intercontinental Rally Challenge season with the Proton Satria Neo Super 2000. Their best result in IRC is Alister McRae finish 2nd place at the 2009 Rally Scotland. Drivers in 2009 were Guy Wilks, Bryan Bouffier and Alister McRae scoring 13 points.

In 2010 Proton team had many retirements and did not scored a single point. Drivers for 2010 were Alister McRae, Chris Atkinson, Niall McShea, Keith Cronin, Gilles Panizzi and a privateer with factory support, Tom Cave. The best result from the 2010 season was Gilles Panizzi secured 22nd place at the 2010 Rallye Sanremo, although it was the only finish for the Proton Satria Neo S2000 in that season.

For opening round of the 2011 IRC season, the famous Rallye Monte Carlo Proton entered two cars. Chris Atkinson retired at the first special stage and Per-Gunnar Andersson at second special stage.

In November 2011, Proton tasted its sweetest victory yet, at the China Rally where it clinched the Asia Pacific Rally Championship driver’s and manufacturer’s titles and capped off a dominant season for the Malaysian car maker.

Alister McRae drove the Proton Satria Neo S2000 to its fourth victory of the season in six rounds when he completed the three-day China Rally ahead of Finnish driver Jari Ketomaa in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X with team mate Chris Atkinson finishing third to make it an all Proton 1–2 in the APRC driver’s championship.

The Satria Neo S2000’s dominant performance all year long also crowned Proton winner of the coveted APRC manufacturer’s championship ahead of Mitsubishi with Subaru finishing the 2011 season a distant third.

The results in China also saw Proton become the first car manufacturer to win all eight major individual titles in the FIA APRC which includes: the overall FIA APRC driver’s title; FIA APRC manufacturer’s title; the FIA APRC Teams Trophy; the FIA Asia Cup driver’s title; the FIA Pacific Cup driver’s title; the manufacturer’s title in the FIA APRC Rally Cup for two-wheel drive category; the FIA APRC Rally Cup two-wheel drive driver’s title; and FIA APRC Junior Cup driver’s title.

IRC Results

Year	Car	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	WDC	Points	WMC	Points
2009	Proton Satria Neo S2000	Guy Wilks	MON	BRA	KEN	POR	BEL Ret	RUS 5	POR 11	CZE Ret	ESP 22	ITA 13	SCO		7th*	15*	5th	13
		Bryan Bouffier	MON	BRA	KEN	POR	BEL	RUS	POR	CZE Ret	ESP	ITA	SCO		–	0
		Alister McRae	MON	BRA	KEN	POR	BEL	RUS	POR	CZE	ESP	ITA	SCO 2		12th	13
2010	Proton Satria Neo S2000	Chris Atkinson	MON	BRA	ARG	CAN	ITA	BEL Ret	AZO DNS	MAD	CZE	ITA	SCO	CYP	–	0	–	0
		Alister McRae	MON	BRA	ARG	CAN	ITA	BEL Ret	AZO DNS	MAD	CZE	ITA	SCO Ret	CYP	–	0
		Niall McShea	MON	BRA	ARG	CAN	ITA	BEL	AZO	MAD	CZE Ret	ITA DNS	SCO	CYP	–	0
		Keith Cronin	MON	BRA	ARG	CAN	ITA	BEL	AZO	MAD	CZE Ret	ITA	SCO Ret	CYP	–	0
		Gilles Panizzi	MON	BRA	ARG	CAN	ITA	BEL	AZO	MAD	CZE	ITA 22	SCO	CYP	–	0
		Tom Cave	MON	BRA	ARG	CAN	ITA	BEL Ret	AZO	MAD	CZE	ITA	SCO Ret	CYP	–	0
2011	Proton Satria Neo S2000	Chris Atkinson	MON Ret	CAN	FRA	UKR	BEL	AZO	CZE	HUN	ITA Ret	SCO	CYP		–	0	7th	41
		Per-Gunnar Andersson	MON Ret	CAN 24	FRA	UKR Ret	BEL 19	AZO	CZE 9	HUN Ret	ITA	SCO Ret	CYP		37th	2
		Giandomenico Basso	MON	CAN 11	FRA	UKR Ret	BEL Ret	AZO	CZE 13	HUN Ret	ITA 10	SCO	CYP		31st**	5**
		Oleksandr Saliuk	MON	CAN	FRA	UKR Ret	BEL	AZO	CZE	HUN	ITA	SCO	CYP		–	0
		Alister McRae	MON	CAN	FRA	UKR	BEL	AZO	CZE	HUN	ITA	SCO Ret	CYP		–	0

**Including 10 points that Wilks scored with Škoda Fabia S2000 at Rally Scotland. **Including 2 points that Basso scored with Peugeot 207 S2000 at Rallye Monte Carlo.

SWRC results

Year	Car	No.	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	SWRC	Points
2012	Proton Satria Neo S2000	33	Per-Gunnar Andersson	MON Ret	SWE 1	POR	NZL 2	FIN 1	GBR 6	FRA 3	ESP 2	2nd	91
		34	Giandomenico Basso	MON Ret								NC	0
			Alister McRae		SWE 7		NZL Ret					13th	6
			Juha Salo					FIN 3				8th	15
			Tom Cave						GBR 2			7th	18
			Andreas Aigner							FRA 4		11th	12
			Alastair Fisher								ESP 4	6th	22

* Season still in progress.

APRC results

Year	Entrant	Driver	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	APRC	Points
2010	Proton R3 Malaysia	Alister McRae	Proton Satria Neo S2000	MAL Ret	JPN Ret	NZL 2	AUS Ret	NCL	IDN	CHN 1	3rd	78
		Chris Atkinson		MAL 4	JPN Ret	NZL	AUS Ret	NCL	IDN	CHN 2	5th	48
2011	Proton Motorsport	Alister McRae	Proton Satria Neo S2000	MAL 3	AUS 4	NCL 3	NZL 5	JPN 2	CHN 1		1st	153
		Chris Atkinson		MAL 1	AUS Ret	NCL 1	NZL 1	JPN Ret	CHN 2		2nd	139
2012	Proton Motorsport	Alister McRae	Proton Satria Neo S2000	NZL 4	NCL Ret	AUS 2	MYS 1	JPN Ret	CHN 1		2nd	120
		Per-Gunnar Andersson		NZL 2	NCL Ret	AUS 4	MYS Ret	JPN	CHN		7th	55
		Juha Salo		NZL	NCL	AUS	MYS	JPN Ret	CHN 5		-	0