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Croatia Rally 2024 counts for:
2024 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2024 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2024 FIA World Rally Championship 2 (for Teams and Drivers/Co-drivers)
2024 FIA World Rally Championship 3 (for Drivers/Co-drivers)
2024 FIA Junior Championship for Drivers
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| 645th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 4 of 13 |
| Official name: | Croatia Rally |
| Edition: | 51st |
| Date: | from Friday 19-Apr-2024 to Sunday 21-Apr-2024 |
| Rally HQ: | Zagreb; Croatia |
| Clerk of the Course: | Slaven Dedic |
| Surface: | Tarmac |
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| Entries: | 68 | |
| Starters: | 67 | |
| Finishers: | 62 | (92.5% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 20 | |
| Shortest: | 8.78 | km | (SS11 Vinski Vrh - Duga Resa 1) |
| Longest: | 23.63 | km | (SS8 Krasic - Sosice 2) |
| Slowest: | 90.16 | km/h | (SS13 Smerovisce - Grdanjci 2) |
| Fastest: | 116.29 | km/h | (SS15 Vinski Vrh - Duga Resa 2) |
| Planned stage distance: | 283.28 | km | (20.2% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 283.28 | km | (20.2% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 1,118.65 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,401.93 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 59th win and 100th podium for Sebastien Ogier. |
| Second place was 33rd podium for Elfyn Evans. |
| Third place was 65th podium for Thierry Neuville. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 87th win and 1-2 win were 249th to 250th podiums for Toyota. |
| | Third place was 118th podium for Hyundai. |
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Ogier suffered from dirty roads since he started well back on first day. Despite massive push and great time on SS8, he was forced to maintain third overall until final day. When both leading Neuville and second placed Evans slid wide on SS18, Ogier jumped to lead which he kept until finish.
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Neuville was fastest off the bat and led almost all the rally, losing lead twice to Evans with tyre off rim on SS6 and again with hard tyre on rainy SS13. On both occasions he regained lead and was always little faster than chasing Evans. Until he went off on SS18, lost part of rear wing and couldn't drive fast any more.
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At M-Sport, Fourmaux was quite impressive and ran at fifth overall almost all rally and kept small pressure on struggling Tanak ahead of him. On final day he inexplicably hit anti-cut device and broke suspension but eventually finished. This elevated Munster (pictured) to best placed M-Sport Ford at the finish line.
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Related links
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Safari 2024
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Portugal 2024
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