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Rally Mexico 2023 counts for:
2023 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2023 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2023 FIA World Rally Championship 2 (for Teams and Drivers/Co-drivers)
2023 FIA World Rally Championship 3 (for Teams and Drivers/Co-drivers)
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| 631st WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 3 of 13 |
| Official name: | Rally Guanajuato Mexico |
| Edition: | 19th |
| Date: | from Thursday 16-Mar-2023 to Sunday 19-Mar-2023 |
| Rally HQ: | Leon, Guanajuato; Mexico |
| Clerk of the Course: | Jaime del Palacio |
| Surface: | Gravel |
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| Entries: | 32 | |
| Starters: | 31 | |
| Finishers: | 28 | (90.3% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 23 | |
| Shortest: | 1.12 | km | (SS1 Street Stage GTO 1) |
| Longest: | 35.63 | km | (SS21 Otates) |
| Slowest: | 68.31 | km/h | (SS9 Las Dunas SSS 1) |
| Fastest: | 112.93 | km/h | (SS7 Ortega 2) |
| Planned stage distance: | 320.71 | km | (33.6% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 305.89 | km | (32.0% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 649.18 | km |
| Total distance: | 955.07 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 57th win and 96th podium for Sebastien Ogier. |
| Second place was 58th podium for Thierry Neuville. |
| Third place was 24th podium for Elfyn Evans. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 78th win and win and third place were 226th to 227th podiums for Toyota. |
| | Second place was 104th podium for Hyundai. |
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Ogier went on to win the seventh time in Mexico, surpassing Loeb's record. Initially, he battled with Lappi with whom he had similar road position advantage. After Lappi crashed on Saturday morning, event changed to a controlling excercise which suited Ogier well.
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Neuville wanted to pass Evans to second overall even if that meant taking risks. As team's third driver Lappi was out, Neuville balanced speed and risk perfectly, inching closer to Evans and passing him by mere 0,4 seconds on Power Stage.
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Ott Tanak finished best M-Sport Ford but it was lowly 9th overall. He was struck with turbocharger problem on SS3, losing almost eight minutes and any kind of chance to score well.
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Related links
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Rally Sweden 2023
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Croatia 2023
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