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Rally Finland 2015 counts for:
2015 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2015 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2015 FIA World Rally Championship 2 (for Teams and Drivers)
2015 FIA World Rally Championship 3 (for Teams and Drivers)
2015 FIA Junior WRC Championship for Drivers
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| 539th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 8 of 13 |
| Official name: | Neste Oil Rally Finland |
| Edition: | 65th |
| Date: | from Thursday 30-Jul-2015 to Sunday 2-Aug-2015 |
| Rally HQ: | Jyvaskyla, Central Finland; Finland |
| Clerk of the Course: | Kai Tarkiainen |
| Surface: | Gravel |
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| Entries: | 89 | |
| Starters: | 84 | |
| Finishers: | 56 | (66.7% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 20 | |
| Shortest: | 2.27 | km | (SS1 Harju 1) |
| Longest: | 34.39 | km | (SS8 Ouninohja 2) |
| Slowest: | 75.25 | km/h | (SS1 Harju 1) |
| Fastest: | 135.25 | km/h | (SS20 Myhinpaa 2) |
| Planned stage distance: | 320.00 | km | (25.4% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 320.00 | km | (25.4% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 940.60 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,260.60 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 14th win and 50th podium for Jari-Matti Latvala. |
| Second place was 42nd podium for Sebastien Ogier. |
| Third place was 14th podium for Mads Ostberg. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 30th win and 1-2 win were 62nd to 63rd podiums for Volkswagen. |
| | Third place was 233rd podium for Citroen. |
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Can Latvala win? If anywhere, it must be at home and once more he achieved that. Although he again lost PS win to Ogier and was little late on getting to lead, he then did not give it away. Both VW's ran without hitch so battle was on for most of the rally.
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At Citroen, the story was the usual. Meeke was faster, usually only seconds from the battling VW's, but fell out with an off in second day. Ostberg did not find speed but was consistent, eventually getting to podium.
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Neuville crashed in shakedown and team had to the rebuild car before start. During the rally he nor team mate Sordo were fast but Paddon in latest spec car continued to impress. Unfortunately, Paddon went off and with other retirements, Neuville finished 4th.
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Both M-Sport Ford drivers were on good pace early on but both lost minute in incidents in first day. Evans broke rear suspension and had to make improvised repairs while Tanak, who in the end finished higher, drove several stages with broken damper.
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Related links
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Rally Poland 2015
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Deutschland 2015
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