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Rally Chile Biobio 2025 counts for:
2025 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2025 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2025 FIA World Rally Championship 2 (for Teams and Drivers/Co-drivers)
2025 FIA World Rally Championship 3 (for Drivers/Co-drivers)
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| 665th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 11 of 14 |
| Official name: | Rally Chile Biobio |
| Edition: | 4th |
| Date: | from Friday 12-Sep-2025 to Sunday 14-Sep-2025 |
| Rally HQ: | Talcahuano, Bio Bio Region; Chile |
| Clerk of the Course: | Kurt Horta |
| Surface: | Gravel |
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| Entries: | 49 | |
| Starters: | 46 | |
| Finishers: | 39 | (84.8% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 16 | |
| Shortest: | 8.78 | km | (SS14 BioBio 1) |
| Longest: | 28.31 | km | (SS12 Maria las Cruces 2) |
| Slowest: | 88.35 | km/h | (SS7 Pelun 1) |
| Fastest: | 121.46 | km/h | (SS5 Rere 2) |
| Planned stage distance: | 306.76 | km | (24.8% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 306.76 | km | (24.8% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 932.31 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,239.07 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 66th win and 113th podium for Sebastien Ogier. |
| Second place was 43rd podium for Elfyn Evans. |
| Third place was 8th podium for Adrien Fourmaux. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 103rd win and 1-2 win were 282nd to 283rd podiums for Toyota. |
| | Third place was 142nd podium for Hyundai. |
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Three Toyota drivers held the lead. Rovanpera was first but lost lead after hitting bank and puncturing. Evans inherited lead after that but soon lost it only to regain it again on second day but had to defend it hard from Ogier (pictured). Ogier was relentless and went past on SS11, scoring a full sweep of points (won overall, Sunday and PS points)
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Tanak suffered an engine failure on Friday, rejoined on Saturday to test replacement engine for two stages and tried to score well on Sunday, which did not work out. Fourmaux (pictured) fared better, even led for three stages on Saturday morning but had to bow to pressure from Toyotas. He clung to third overall until the end, keeping ahead of Neuville.
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M-Sport story was quite usual. McErlean spun and damaged his front end bodywork, which hindered him quite badly until fixed. Munster (pictured) had less trouble but was slow, fighting mainly against Katsuta but lost this battle eventually, finishing eight overall.
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