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EKO Acropolis Rally 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)
2024 FIA Junior Championship for Drivers
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| 651st WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 10 of 13 |
| Official name: | EKO Acropolis Rally |
| Edition: | 68th |
| Date: | from Friday 6-Sep-2024 to Sunday 8-Sep-2024 |
| Rally HQ: | Lamia, Central Greece; Greece |
| Clerk of the Course: | Anita Passalis |
| Surface: | Gravel |
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| Entries: | 72 | |
| Starters: | 70 | |
| Finishers: | 52 | (74.3% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 15 | |
| Shortest: | 1.97 | km | (SS12 EKO SSS) |
| Longest: | 28.67 | km | (SS7 Rengini) |
| Slowest: | 67.80 | km/h | (SS12 EKO SSS) |
| Fastest: | 102.27 | km/h | (SS15 Eleftherohori 2) |
| Planned stage distance: | 305.30 | km | (21.9% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 305.30 | km | (21.9% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 1,086.94 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,392.24 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 21st win and 68th podium for Thierry Neuville. |
| Second place was 58th podium for Daniel Sordo Castillo. |
| Third place was 50th podium for Ott Tanak. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 31st win and triple win were 125th to 127th podiums for Hyundai. |
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Despite sweeping the road and suffering from that, Neuville kept his nose clean and as others fell to various problems, he crept up the leaderboard until at SS9 he took lead after Sordo's tyre delaminated. At the end, Hyundai scored 1-2-3 win thanks to Ogier's roll on final stage.
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Toyota had a multitude of problems during the rally. Katsuta stopped on SS3 after he damaged a wheel. Evans punctured on SS1 and then had turbo problem for next two stages, losing minutes. Ogier (pictured) was leading when he too had turbo problem at the end of first day - and then dramatically rolled on Power Stage but finished.
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Despite various troubles, all works drivers finished except Munster. His team-mate Fourmaux (pictured) broke steering arm on heavy landing on SS4 and retired. At that point, he had shown good speed and was second overall. He rejoined for subsequent days but had little to gain, except points for Super Sunday and Power Stage which he won.
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Related links
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