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Rally Sweden 2016 counts for:
2016 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2016 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2016 FIA World Rally Championship 2 (for Teams and Drivers)
2016 FIA World Rally Championship 3 (for Teams and Drivers)
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| 546th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 2 of 14 |
| Official name: | Rally Sweden |
| Edition: | 64th |
| Date: | from Thursday 11-Feb-2016 to Sunday 14-Feb-2016 |
| Rally HQ: | Karlstad, Varmland; Sweden |
| Clerk of the Course: | Stig Rune Kjernsli |
| Surface: | Snow |
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| Entries: | 58 | |
| Starters: | 50 | |
| Finishers: | 38 | (76.0% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 21 | |
| Shortest: | 1.87 | km | (SS15 Hagfors Sprint) |
| Longest: | 24.70 | km | (SS16 Vargasen 2) |
| Slowest: | 72.08 | km/h | (SS17 Super Special Stage Karlstad 2) |
| Fastest: | 123.55 | km/h | (SS14 Rammen 2) |
| Planned stage distance: | 331.21 | km | (21.7% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 226.48 | km | (14.8% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 1,302.56 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,529.04 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 34th win and 47th podium for Sebastien Ogier. |
| Second place was 2nd podium for Hayden Paddon. |
| Third place was 15th podium for Mads Ostberg. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 37th win and 77th podium for Volkswagen. |
| | Second place was 10th podium for Hyundai. |
| | Third place was 332nd podium for Ford. |
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During recce, region suffered from warm weather and thawed roads were soft and suffered heavy rutting. Ogier was critical about the situation but after re-graded roads froze night before the start, he pushed doubts aside, jumped into lead and won.
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Though initially Paddon wasn't very fast, he improved during the rally. In only his third start in Sweden he scored two stage wins and despite final stage cooling damage scare, finished second.
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Ostberg should have been fast on snow, but his rally was more of steady approach than blinding speed although he was involved in tight fight in mid-rally.
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Tanak's DMack tyres weren't quite as inferior on snow as they had been on tarmac so he was able to post relatively good times, fighting well against many drivers in mid-rally shootout.
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Craig Breen was left to run Citroen's colors when Meeke hit rock and retired early, just like in Monte Carlo.
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Related links
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Monte Carlo 2016
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Rally Mexico 2016
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