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Rally Poland 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)
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| 648th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 7 of 13 |
| Official name: | Rally Poland |
| Edition: | 80th |
| Date: | from Thursday 27-Jun-2024 to Sunday 30-Jun-2024 |
| Rally HQ: | Mikolajki, North-East Poland; Poland |
| Clerk of the Course: | Krzysztof Maciejewski |
| Surface: | Gravel |
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| Entries: | 45 | |
| Starters: | 42 | |
| Finishers: | 40 | (95.2% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 19 | |
| Shortest: | 2.50 | km | (SS1 Mikolajki Arena 1) |
| Longest: | 29.40 | km | (SS5 Stanczyki 2) |
| Slowest: | 87.04 | km/h | (SS8 Mikolajki Arena 2) |
| Fastest: | 132.95 | km/h | (SS6 Wieliczki 2) |
| Planned stage distance: | 303.16 | km | (22.5% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 277.06 | km | (20.5% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 1,072.48 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,349.54 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 13th win and 23rd podium for Kalle Rovanpera. |
| Second place was 34th podium for Elfyn Evans. |
| Third place was 3rd podium for Adrien Fourmaux. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 89th win and 1-2 win were 253rd to 254th podiums for Toyota. |
| | Third place was 377th podium for Ford. |
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Kalle Rovanpera was called in at short notice as Ogier had road accident during recce and had to withdraw. Despite starting with limited recce, no pre-event testing and feeling tired, Kalle posted better times when stages were repeated and he was more familiar with them. He had very tight battle with early leader Mikkelsen but forced ahead in Saturday and by extending lead to ultimate win.
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Fourmaux (pictured) had again a good rally even though early on he was overshadowed by team's guest driver, latvian Martins Sesks who drove a Rally1 car without hybrid unit and ran as high as 2nd overall at one point. Fourmaux again had both speed and sensible drive which saw him at podium after Mikkelsen's last day puncture.
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Early on, Neuville (pictured) suffered massively from cleaning effect and teammate Mikkelsen took full benefit of clean conditions to plough into the lead. Mikkelsen's efforts came to nothing with puncture on final day whereas Neuville gained places both on speed and with misfortunes of others. Hyundai's third driver Tanak retired on SS2 after hitting a deer at full speed.
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Related links
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Sardinia 2024
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Rally Latvia 2024
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