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Croatia Rally 2023 counts for:
2023 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2023 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2023 FIA World Rally Championship 2 (for Teams and Drivers/Co-drivers)
2023 FIA World Rally Championship 3 (for Drivers/Co-drivers)
2023 FIA Junior Championship for Drivers
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| 632nd WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 4 of 13 |
| Official name: | Croatia Rally |
| Edition: | 50th |
| Date: | from Friday 21-Apr-2023 to Sunday 23-Apr-2023 |
| Rally HQ: | Zagreb; Croatia |
| Clerk of the Course: | Slaven Dedic |
| Surface: | Tarmac |
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| Entries: | 57 | |
| Starters: | 54 | |
| Finishers: | 48 | (88.9% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 20 | |
| Shortest: | 8.78 | km | (SS10 Vinski Vrh - Duga Resa 1) |
| Longest: | 25.67 | km | (SS6 Stojdraga - Hartje 2) |
| Slowest: | 95.10 | km/h | (SS5 Mali Lipovec - Grdanjci 2) |
| Fastest: | 121.53 | km/h | (SS7 Krasic - Vrskovac 2) |
| Planned stage distance: | 301.26 | km | (18.3% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 301.26 | km | (18.3% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 1,348.42 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,649.68 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 6th win and 25th podium for Elfyn Evans. |
| Second place was 44th podium for Ott Tanak. |
| Third place was 11th podium for Esapekka Lappi. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 79th win and 228th podium for Toyota. |
| | Second place was 372nd podium for Ford. |
| | Third place was 105th podium for Hyundai. |
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Toyota withdrew their nomination from Evans as a gesture towards Hyundai who had lost their third nominated car in Breen's pre-event accident. Thus, when Evans won he didn't score for Toyota and he also displayed flag of Ireland on podium as a tribute to Breen.
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Tanak, or rather M-Sport Ford, again suffered from various small problems like power steering fault and wrong tyres on first day and unspecified trouble on second day which made car difficult to drive. Nevertheless, Tanak kept on podium and finished second overall after Neuville retired from the lead.
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Breen's fatal pre-event accident meant that Hyundai started the rally with just two cars. Neuville initially led but went off on SS11, handing lead to Evans. After that it was Lappi's (pictured) job to ensure podium finish in memory of Breen, teams cars sported Ireland's colours.
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