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Acropolis Rally 1980 counts for:
1980 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers
1980 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
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| 80th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 5 of 12 |
| Official name: | Acropolis Rally |
| Edition: | 27th |
| Date: | from Monday 26-May-1980 to Thursday 29-May-1980 |
| Clerk of the Course: | Peggy Trikakou |
| Surface: | Gravel |
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| Entries: | 154 | |
| Starters: | 148 | |
| Finishers: | 37 | (25.0% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 56 | |
| Shortest: | 5.40 | km | (SS43 Sekoulas) |
| Longest: | 43.00 | km | (SS9 Sikea 1) |
| Slowest: | 53.40 | km/h | (SS50 Koniditsa) |
| Fastest: | 158.37 | km/h | (SS13 Gilofon) |
| Planned stage distance: | 956.16 | km | (34.8% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 946.96 | km | (34.5% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 1,800.00 | km |
| Total distance: | 2,746.96 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 1st win and 5th podium for Ari Vatanen. |
| Second place was 7th podium for Timo Salonen. |
| Third place was 21st podium for Markku Alen. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 18th win and 46th podium for Ford. |
| | Second place was 17th podium for Datsun. |
| | Third place was 50th podium for Fiat. |
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Ford had retired to conceive a successor to Escort but Ford Escort was still winnin in private hands - this time driven by Ari Vatanen.
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TTE's Ove Andersson finished on equal time with Rohrl and lost fifth place to german by a tiebreaker.
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Related links
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Safari 1980
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Rally Codasur 1980
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