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Swedish Rally 2006 counts for:
2006 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2006 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2006 FIA Junior World Rally Championship (for drivers)
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| 409th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 2 of 16 |
| Official name: | Uddeholm Swedish Rally |
| Edition: | 55th |
| Date: | from Friday 3-Feb-2006 to Sunday 5-Feb-2006 |
| Surface: | Snow |
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| Entries: | 67 | |
| Starters: | 63 | |
| Finishers: | 51 | (81.0% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 19 | |
| Shortest: | 1.87 | km | (SS6 Hagfors Sprint 1) |
| Longest: | 39.95 | km | (SS12 Vargasen 2) |
| Slowest: | 55.77 | km/h | (SS13 Hagfors Sprint 2) |
| Fastest: | 118.51 | km/h | (SS15 Rammen 1) |
| Planned stage distance: | 349.02 | km | (24.2% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 349.02 | km | (24.2% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 1,092.14 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,441.16 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 20th win and 39th podium for Marcus Gronholm. |
| Second place was 37th podium for Sebastien Loeb. |
| Third place was 1st podium for Daniel Carlsson. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 50th win and 190th podium for Ford. |
| | Second place was 67th podium for Citroen. |
| | Third place was 76th podium for Mitsubishi. |
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Gronholm's fourth win at Sweden and 20th in all, second back-to-back win with Ford and Ford's 50th WRC win. Lots of numbers to remember.
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For a change, conditions were cold and wintery with plenty of snow around and even though Loeb fought bravely, he couldn't repeat his historical win of 2004.
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Related links
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Monte Carlo 2006
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Rally Mexico 2006
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