Invincible Singh storms to Group N victory.

Malaysia's top rally driver Karamjit Singh, and co-driver Allen Oh have stormed to a magnificent Group N victory in their first ever Cyprus Rally.

Scoring maximum points in the FIA Production Car World Rally Championship Singh and Oh totally dominated the class in some of the worst conditions the WRC has ever seen.

Winning Groupp N in a Proton Pert by an outstanding 5 minutes 41.5 seconds won't be the only thing Karam will be celebrating tonight though, as his wife, Harpreet, gave birth to their first child, a baby girl, in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Only 32 of the original 60 starters made it to the finish. Nearly half the field of 29 Group N cars started the rally on Thursday, of which only 13 saw the finish line of a rally which will surely be remembered for its terrifyingly difficult conditions.

After establishing an absolutely stunning Group N lead of 6 minutes 44.5 seconds on Leg 2 yesterday the order of today was to take it easy and bring the car home. Six gruelling stages of faultless careful driving later and the Group N win was theirs along with a maximum ten points in the Production Cup, which Singh now jointly leads with Kristian Sohlberg and Ramon Ferreyros.

Singh and Oh, the current FIA Asia Pacific Rally Champions who are certainly no strangers to bone-shakingly rough terrain were surprised by the harsh conditions of the Cyprus Rally admitting they were some of the worst they had ever competed on.

"The conditions were very bad today especially on stage 18 which was very wet and muddy," said Karam Singh. "I have never seen conditions as bad as this before, they are definitely some of the worst I have ever driven and I've driven on some rough conditions in my time."

"We definitely could have gone a lot faster today than our times showed. This morning we eased off during stages 15 and 16 to preserve the car as much as possible, and on 17 we could have pushed a little bit harder as it was a lot smoother. Having established a big lead we were able to do the same in the final three stages. Although driving slowly is much more difficult than pushing hard, as it's a lot more difficult to maintain your concentration and that's when mistakes happen. This afternoon the conditions were just so bad we could not afford to make any mistakes."

Allen Oh adds: "We came here wanting to get as many points as possible, we did not expect to win. It's our first time here, we did not have a chance to test our pace notes and so to win Group N in such bad conditions is just fantastic."

Today's historic win isn't the first for Singh in the World Rally Championship as he also won Group N in the 1997 Rally of Indonesia for Proton. Somehow though today's win is undoubtedly sweeter, with a new addition to the family and such a convincing first win on his FIA Production Car World Rally Championship debut Singh is a very happy man.

He continued: "I feel absolutely on top of the world, that is the only way to describe it. We have driven well within our limits today and it's certainly paid off. After two days of pushing we did what we had to do today and brought the car home. To come to our very first Cyprus Rally and win Group N by 5 minutes 41.5 seconds is a fantastic result for us and the Pert team. After a fantastic weekend I'm really looking forward to going home and seeing my wife and our new baby girl."