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Safari Rally 2021 counts for:
2021 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2021 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2021 FIA World Rally Championship 2 (for Teams and Drivers/Co-drivers)
2021 FIA World Rally Championship 3 (for Drivers/Co-drivers)
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| 609th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 7 of 16 |
| Official name: | Safari Rally Kenya |
| Edition: | 68th |
| Date: | from Thursday 24-Jun-2021 to Sunday 27-Jun-2021 |
| Rally HQ: | Nairobi; Kenya |
| Clerk of the Course: | Gurvir Bhabra |
| Surface: | Gravel |
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| Entries: | 59 | |
| Starters: | 38 | |
| Finishers: | 26 | (68.4% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 18 | |
| Shortest: | 4.84 | km | (SS1 Super Special Kasarani) |
| Longest: | 32.68 | km | (SS6 Kedong 2) |
| Slowest: | 80.05 | km/h | (SS5 Chui Lodge 2) |
| Fastest: | 116.24 | km/h | (SS6 Kedong 2) |
| Planned stage distance: | 315.26 | km | (27.9% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 315.26 | km | (27.9% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 813.75 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,129.01 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 53rd win and 89th podium for Sebastien Ogier. |
| Second place was 1st podium for Takamoto Katsuta. |
| Third place was 32nd podium for Ott Tanak. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 65th win and 1-2 win were 194th to 195th podiums for Toyota. |
| | Third place was 74th podium for Hyundai. |
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Ogier broke rear damper on opening day, losing minutes as he drove through cautiously and thought he had lost any chance of victory. As it turned out, others fared way worse as Rovanpera got stuck in dusty ruts and Evans clipped a rock on same stage and retired. Rain on Saturday came too late to hamper Ogier, who went on to finish first after Hyundais hit problems.
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As all three Toyotas had problems in first day, Hyundai seemed set to benefit, their only loss being Sordo. On Saturday, rain hit worst at Tanak (pictured) whose windscreen misted and he lost minutes. Still, Neuville was leading but on final day his rear suspension collapsed and he retired.
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M-Sport Fords were present in minimum strength to avoid costly COVID quarantines upon return home. Their two drivers dueled mainly between themselves at the back of the leaderboard, Fourmaux having early advantage and eventually coming home first but received ten second penalty which dropped him 0,1 seconds behind Greensmith (pictured).
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