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Rally Argentina 2015 counts for:
2015 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2015 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2015 FIA World Rally Championship 2 (for Teams and Drivers)
2015 FIA World Rally Championship 3 (for Teams and Drivers)
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| 535th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 4 of 13 |
| Official name: | XION Rally Argentina |
| Edition: | 35th |
| Date: | from Thursday 23-Apr-2015 to Sunday 26-Apr-2015 |
| Rally HQ: | Villa Carlos Paz, Cordoba; Argentina |
| Clerk of the Course: | Alfredo Menendez |
| Surface: | Gravel |
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| Entries: | 60 | |
| Starters: | 43 | |
| Finishers: | 26 | (60.5% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 12 | |
| Shortest: | 2.68 | km | (SS1 Super Especial Merlo - San Luis) |
| Longest: | 51.99 | km | (SS4 Agua de Oro - Ascochinga 2) |
| Slowest: | 63.47 | km/h | (SS1 Super Especial Merlo - San Luis) |
| Fastest: | 117.50 | km/h | (SS5 Villa Bustos - Tanti 2) |
| Planned stage distance: | 315.96 | km | (19.9% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 292.86 | km | (18.5% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 1,292.77 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,585.63 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 1st win and 5th podium for Kris Meeke. |
| Second place was 13th podium for Mads Ostberg. |
| Third place was 1st podium for Elfyn Evans. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 94th win and 1-2 win were 231st to 232nd podiums for Citroen. |
| | Third place was 329th podium for Ford. |
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Kris Meeke came through the rally unscathed. While others hit rocks and technical maladies, Kris kept his head cool and himself out of problems, scoring his first win and 1-2 for Citroen.
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Evans continued strong results with his first podium finish. He started the rally well enough so that misfortunes of others only netted him two places, those of Latvala in final day and Sordo day before.
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Hyundai was set to capitalize VW's bad fortunes until in final stage Neuville hit rock and retired from fourth place. This and good drive elevated Sordo to 5th as he also overtook al-Qassimi.
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Out of Volkswagen trio, Ogier was first to encounter problems when he retired on second stage with fuel supply problems. Yet, he was the only VW to reach finish as Latvala suffered same fate in final day and Mikkelsen hit rock on final stage.
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