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Closest wins
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   Event Margin Winner and runner-up 
 1. 2007 New Zealand 0.3 seconds Gronholm - Loeb 
 2. 1998 Portugal 2.1 seconds McRae - Sainz 
 3. 1999 Argentina 2.4 seconds Kankkunen - Burns 
 4. 2000 Australia 2.7 seconds Gronholm - Burns 
 5. 2003 Deutschland 3.6 seconds Loeb - Gronholm 
 6. 1976 San Remo 4.0 seconds Waldegard - Munari 
  2002 Argentina 4.0 seconds Sainz - Solberg 
 8. 1998 New Zealand 4.1 seconds Sainz - Auriol 
 9. 1989 San Remo 5.0 seconds Biasion - Fiorio 
 10. 2006 Japan 5.6 seconds Loeb - Gronholm 
 11. 2000 Catalunya 5.9 seconds McRae - Burns 
  2004 New Zealand 5.9 seconds Solberg - Gronholm 
 13. 1979 Monte Carlo 6.0 seconds Darniche - Waldegard 
  1994 Argentina 6.0 seconds Auriol - Sainz 
  1997 San Remo 6.0 seconds McRae - Liatti 
  1997 Australia 6.0 seconds McRae - Makinen 
 17. 2004 Great Britain 6.3 seconds Solberg - Loeb 
 18. 2000 Portugal 6.5 seconds Burns - Gronholm 
 19. 2000 Sweden 6.8 seconds Gronholm - Makinen 
 20. 1996 Catalunya 7.0 seconds McRae - Liatti 
  1997 Catalunya 7.0 seconds Makinen - Liatti 
  1997 Finland 7.0 seconds Makinen - Kankkunen 
 23. 2008 Turkey 7.9 seconds Hirvonen - Latvala 
 24. 1991 Argentina 8.0 seconds Sainz - Biasion 
  1997 Corsica 8.0 seconds McRae - Sainz 
 26. 2001 Portugal 8.6 seconds Makinen - Sainz 
 27. 2008 Finland 9.0 seconds Loeb - Hirvonen 
 28. 2007 Norway 9.5 seconds Hirvonen - Gronholm 
 29. 1999 Finland 9.7 seconds Kankkunen - Burns 
 30. 2008 Sardinia 10.6 seconds Loeb - Hirvonen 
Note
Some of the closest wins are engineered ones ie. situations where team has forced one team mate to lose to another. For example, Colin McRae's 1997 San Remo win over Piero Liatti is such.
Other close wins
Not all rallies have used timed stages as we know the concept and an example of tight finish is from 1973 Safari. Shekhar Mehta and Harry Kallstrom had same amount of penalty minutes and Mehta was declared winner by tie breaker.
1973 Safari results

Similar event was 1985 Ivory Coast where Toyota took 1-2 with Juha Kankkunen and Bjorn Waldegard.
1985 Ivory Coast results
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