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Rally New Zealand 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)
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| 626th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 11 of 13 |
| Official name: | Rally New Zealand |
| Edition: | 45th |
| Date: | from Sunday 2-Oct-2022 to Sunday 2-Oct-2022 |
| Rally HQ: | Auckland, North Island; New Zealand |
| Clerk of the Course: | Stuart Barnett |
| Surface: | Gravel |
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| Entries: | 29 | |
| Starters: | 28 | |
| Finishers: | 21 | (75.0% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 17 | |
| Shortest: | 1.78 | km | (SS1 SSS Pukekawa Auckland Domain) |
| Longest: | 31.48 | km | (SS6 Te Akau South 2) |
| Slowest: | 60.57 | km/h | (SS1 SSS Pukekawa Auckland Domain) |
| Fastest: | 113.55 | km/h | (SS7 Te Akau North 2) |
| Planned stage distance: | 279.80 | km | (102.1% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 273.99 | km | (100.0% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 0.00 | km |
| Total distance: | 273.99 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 8th win and 12th podium for Kalle Rovanpera. |
| Second place was 93rd podium for Sebastien Ogier. |
| Third place was 41st podium for Ott Tanak. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 75th win and 1-2 win were 219th to 220th podiums for Toyota. |
| | Third place was 97th podium for Hyundai. |
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Rovanpera was again first on the road but rainy conditions helped him to mitigate associated time loss in the first and longest day. On second day, Kalle began to push very hard, as is evident here and only after a few stages took the lead which he held until the end. With this win, Kalle made sure of the title and became youngest WRC champion.
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Tanak started the rally with very slim championship hopes and initially he alternated in the lead with various other drivers. Many drivers, him included were penalized for technicality with excess hybrid power. This combined with general lack of feeling with the car relegated him to second and later to third.
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New Zealand is a far-away event and thus expensive to participate. M-Sport fielded only two cars for Breen (pictured) and Greensmith, their third entry was non-nominated customer car for Bertelli. Greensmith rolled out on second day and as Breen had lost lots of time when he slid off on SS5, he finished lowly 19th but still 5th best manufacturer entry.
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