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Rallye de France Alsace 2013 counts for:
2013 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2013 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2013 FIA World Rally Championship 2 (for Teams and Drivers)
2013 FIA World Rally Championship 3 (for Teams and Drivers)
2013 FIA Junior WRC Championship for Drivers
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| 516th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 11 of 13 |
| Official name: | Rallye de France - Alsace |
| Edition: | 4th |
| Date: | from Thursday 3-Oct-2013 to Sunday 6-Oct-2013 |
| Rally HQ: | Strasbourg, Alsace; France |
| Clerk of the Course: | Francis Murac |
| Surface: | Tarmac |
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| Entries: | 88 | |
| Starters: | 82 | |
| Finishers: | 49 | (59.8% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 20 | |
| Shortest: | 4.55 | km | (SS1 Strasbourg) |
| Longest: | 34.34 | km | (SS7 Vosges - Pays d'Ormont 2) |
| Slowest: | 77.64 | km/h | (SS14 Mulhouse) |
| Fastest: | 122.19 | km/h | (SS10 Soultzeren - Pays Welche 1) |
| Planned stage distance: | 312.14 | km | (25.0% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 312.14 | km | (25.0% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 935.66 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,247.80 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 14th win and 23rd podium for Sebastien Ogier. |
| Second place was 36th podium for Daniel Sordo Castillo. |
| Third place was 37th podium for Jari-Matti Latvala. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 9th win and win and third place were 20th to 21st podiums for Volkswagen. |
| | Second place was 220th podium for Citroen. |
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As Neuville failed to win the opening power stage, Ogier clinched the drivers' title. As a consequence, his driving during Friday was unusually slow but towards the end he upped his effort and won.
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Sordo led the rally on two separate occasions and for the moment it seemed like he would take his second win but Ogier's charge was too much.
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Latvala was third overall and even led for one stage, giving his best performance on tarmac so far.
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Neuville had sizeable lead but innocent looking incident on SS11, where he went ever so slightly wide onto a curb and collected puncture, dropped him to fourth.
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Loeb made his final appearance in WRC but had an out-of-character off. All these five drivers were in contention of win at one point or another.
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Related links
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Rally Australia 2013
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Rally Catalunya 2013
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