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Big news for Acropolis 2004 was the trial of so-called SupeRally system, run on the event for the first time. System allowed retired crews to restart on legs two and three, without being classified in overall results and scoring no points. System appealed especially to Mitsubishi and Skoda as both desperately needed as many competitive mileage as they possibly could get.
Other teams were more reserved but overall all parties were happy that system was tried out and because no championship points were involved. Event was pretty much Petter Solberg's show even though Gronholm led initially. Norwegian took lead after fourth stage and never lost it even though he was later penalised 30 seconds for leaving the service without mudflaps attached, as required by the rules.
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Acropolis Rally 2004 counts for:
2004 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2004 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2004 FIA Junior World Championship (for drivers)
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| 381st WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 6 of 16 |
| Official name: | Acropolis Rally of Greece |
| Edition: | 51st |
| Date: | from Thursday 3-Jun-2004 to Sunday 6-Jun-2004 |
| Rally HQ: | Lamia, Central Greece; Greece |
| Clerk of the Course: | Anita Passalis |
| Surface: | Gravel |
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| Entries: | 72 | |
| Starters: | 72 | |
| Finishers: | 33 | (45.8% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 22 | |
| Shortest: | 2.25 | km | (SS1 Lilea - Parnassos 1) |
| Longest: | 32.55 | km | (SS13 Elatia - Zeli 2) |
| Slowest: | 70.50 | km/h | (SS9 Lilea - Parnassos 2) |
| Fastest: | 97.00 | km/h | (SS6 Eleftherohori) |
| Planned stage distance: | 377.13 | km | (26.2% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 377.13 | km | (26.2% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 1,061.35 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,438.48 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 7th win and 16th podium for Petter Solberg. |
| Second place was 14th podium for Sebastien Loeb. |
| Third place was 13th podium for Harri Rovanpera. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 41st win and 103rd podium for Subaru. |
| | Second place was 31st podium for Citroen. |
| | Third place was 110th podium for Peugeot. |
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Luck was with Petter this time and norwegian took a deserved win.
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Armin was back at Skoda and Skoda was back at WRC but Fabia was still off the pace.
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Related links
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Cyprus Rally 2004
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Turkey 2004
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