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Safari Rally 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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| 657th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 3 of 14 |
| Official name: | Safari Rally Kenya |
| Edition: | 72nd |
| Date: | from Thursday 20-Mar-2025 to Sunday 23-Mar-2025 |
| Rally HQ: | Naivasha, Nakuru County; Kenya |
| Clerk of the Course: | George Mwangi |
| Surface: | Gravel |
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| Entries: | 39 | |
| Starters: | 29 | |
| Finishers: | 21 | (72.4% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 21 | |
| Shortest: | 4.76 | km | (SS1 Super Special Kasarani) |
| Longest: | 31.40 | km | (SS7 Camp Moran 2) |
| Slowest: | 72.59 | km/h | (SS3 Camp Moran 1) |
| Fastest: | 123.15 | km/h | (SS6 Kedong 1) |
| Planned stage distance: | 383.10 | km | (27.7% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 383.10 | km | (27.7% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 998.82 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,381.92 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 11th win and 40th podium for Elfyn Evans. |
| Second place was 53rd podium for Ott Tanak. |
| Third place was 71st podium for Thierry Neuville. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 96th win and 267th podium for Toyota. |
| | Second and third places were 133rd to 134th podiums for Hyundai. |
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Toyota started with more moderate speed than Hyundai and that seemed to pay off as Evans (pictured) inherited lead after Tanak hit problems. Rovanpera and Katsuta were going strong too but both retired on final day, Rovanpera with broken suspension and Katsuta rolled on PS. Evans went on to win but as he was only Toyota to finish, team scored little.
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Tanak (pictured) started strong and led almost whole first day but developed an oil leak and dropped to third. Team-mate Neuville had multitude of problems ranging from time penalty for gearbox change, jump start on SS5, another time penalty for lateness and several punctures. Eventually, Hyundai outscored Toyota with all three drivers contributing.
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McErlean was faster of the M-Sport Fords but he stopped twice on SS7 losing 2,5 minutes and even more time on SS11 with broken suspension. Munster (pictured) was slower but had less problems and finished fifth overall, even winning one stage in the process.
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Related links
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