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Swedish Rally 2008 counts for:
2008 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2008 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2008 FIA Production Car World Rally Championship (for drivers)
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| 441st WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 2 of 15 |
| Official name: | Uddeholm Swedish Rally |
| Edition: | 57th |
| Date: | from Thursday 7-Feb-2008 to Sunday 10-Feb-2008 |
| Rally HQ: | Karlstad, Varmland; Sweden |
| Clerk of the Course: | Bertil Klarin |
| Surface: | Snow |
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| Entries: | 66 | |
| Starters: | 61 | |
| Finishers: | 49 | (80.3% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 20 | |
| Shortest: | 1.90 | km | (SS1 Super Special Stage Karlstad 1) |
| Longest: | 24.63 | km | (SS14 Vargasen 2) |
| Slowest: | 76.94 | km/h | (SS1 Super Special Stage Karlstad 1) |
| Fastest: | 126.16 | km/h | (SS5 Stensjon 2) |
| Planned stage distance: | 340.24 | km | (24.1% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 309.10 | km | (21.9% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 1,099.84 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,408.94 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 1st win and 2nd podium for Jari-Matti Latvala. |
| Second place was 21st podium for Mikko Hirvonen. |
| Third place was 2nd podium for Gianluigi Galli. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 65th win and triple win were 235th to 237th podiums for Ford. |
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Latvala took full advantage of his starting position for the first day, built up a good lead and became youngest WRC winner.
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Once again Stobart cars were ahead of Subaru, Galli eventually taking the podium after team-mate Henning went off.
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Hanninen won Group N, scored 10 points in PWRC and was eight overall in Gr N car, scoring a drivers' championship point as well.
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Related links
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Monte Carlo 2008
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Rally Mexico 2008
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