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Rally Sweden 2011 counts for:
2011 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2011 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2011 FIA Production Car World Rally Championship (for drivers)
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| 480th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 1 of 13 |
| Official name: | Rally Sweden |
| Edition: | 59th |
| Date: | from Thursday 10-Feb-2011 to Sunday 13-Feb-2011 |
| Rally HQ: | Karlstad, Varmland; Sweden |
| Clerk of the Course: | Bertil Klarin |
| Surface: | Snow |
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| Entries: | 48 | |
| Starters: | 44 | |
| Finishers: | 34 | (77.3% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 22 | |
| Shortest: | 1.90 | km | (SS1 SSS Karlstad 1) |
| Longest: | 24.63 | km | (SS5 Vargasen 2) |
| Slowest: | 68.61 | km/h | (SS1 SSS Karlstad 1) |
| Fastest: | 117.37 | km/h | (SS17 Torntorp 1) |
| Planned stage distance: | 351.00 | km | (17.0% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 351.00 | km | (17.0% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 1,708.89 | km |
| Total distance: | 2,059.89 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 13th win and 44th podium for Mikko Hirvonen. |
| Second place was 1st podium for Mads Ostberg. |
| Third place was 18th podium for Jari-Matti Latvala. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 77th win and triple win were 279th to 281st podiums for Ford. |
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Mikko was third Ford-driver to take the leade but unlike Andersson and Ostberg, he was able to maintain his lead until the end.
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Sensation of the rally was young Norwegian Mads Ostberg, who shot into lead during day one and held lead well into next day, finishing second overall.
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Petter Solberg thrilled in two ways. Firstly, he was best Citroen for most of the rally. Secondly, in final stage car was driven by co-driver since Petter lost his driver's licence for speeding.
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Related links
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Rally GB 2010
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Rally Mexico 2011
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