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Croatia Rally 2022 counts for:
2022 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2022 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2022 FIA World Rally Championship 2 (for Teams and Drivers/Co-drivers)
2022 FIA World Rally Championship 3 (for Drivers/Co-drivers)
2022 FIA WRC3 Junior Championship for Drivers
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| 618th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 3 of 13 |
| Official name: | Croatia Rally |
| Edition: | 49th |
| Date: | from Thursday 21-Apr-2022 to Sunday 24-Apr-2022 |
| Rally HQ: | Zagreb; Croatia |
| Clerk of the Course: | Slaven Dedic |
| Surface: | Tarmac |
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| Entries: | 66 | |
| Starters: | 63 | |
| Finishers: | 56 | (88.9% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 20 | |
| Shortest: | 8.78 | km | (SS12 Vinski Vrh - Duga Resa 1) |
| Longest: | 23.76 | km | (SS13 Kostanjevac - Petrus Vrh 2) |
| Slowest: | 88.51 | km/h | (SS5 Mali Lipovec - Grdjanci 2) |
| Fastest: | 114.52 | km/h | (SS16 Vinski Vrh - Duga Resa 2) |
| Planned stage distance: | 291.84 | km | (18.2% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 252.23 | km | (15.7% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 1,350.34 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,602.57 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 4th win and 7th podium for Kalle Rovanpera. |
| Second place was 35th podium for Ott Tanak. |
| Third place was 52nd podium for Thierry Neuville. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 71st win and 207th podium for Toyota. |
| | Second and third places were 86th to 87th podiums for Hyundai. |
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Rovanpera started well despite having no actual experience from Croatia. He utilized road position and clean roads and built up sizeable lead until puncture shrunk it to 18 seconds. On final day, he was caught in rain with mostly hard tyres but with convincing Power Stage win he retook lead and won.
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Both Tanak (pictured) and Neuville started well but latter encountered lots of problems and fell back. Tanak on the other hand drove steadily and with superb time on SS11 moved closer to Rovanpera. On final day, he started with soft wet tyres which helped him to take slender lead on rainy SS19.
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Neuville's troubles and penalties allowed Breen (pictured) to gain third and keep it until on rainy SS19 he finally lost position to Neuville. Breen didn't regain podium position even after Neuville briefly went off on Power Stage as he had lost too much time on previous one.
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Related links
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