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Rally Australia 2006 counts for:
2006 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2006 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2006 FIA Production Car World Championship (for drivers)
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| 421st WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 14 of 16 |
| Official name: | Telstra Rally Australia |
| Edition: | 19th |
| Date: | from Thursday 26-Oct-2006 to Sunday 29-Oct-2006 |
| Rally HQ: | Perth, Western Australia; Australia |
| Clerk of the Course: | Adrian Stafford |
| Surface: | Gravel |
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| Entries: | 60 | |
| Starters: | 56 | |
| Finishers: | 45 | (80.4% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 26 | |
| Shortest: | 2.00 | km | (SS1 Perth City Super 1) |
| Longest: | 29.93 | km | (SS25 Helena North 2) |
| Slowest: | 85.50 | km/h | (SS21 Atkins 1) |
| Fastest: | 124.89 | km/h | (SS15 Bannister North 2) |
| Planned stage distance: | 348.51 | km | (26.1% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 348.51 | km | (26.1% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 985.90 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,334.41 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 1st win and 8th podium for Mikko Hirvonen. |
| Second place was 31st podium for Petter Solberg. |
| Third place was 4th podium for Manfred Stohl. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 54th win and 205th podium for Ford. |
| | Second place was 119th podium for Subaru. |
| | Third place was 131st podium for Peugeot. |
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Mikko Hirvonen scored his first WRC win after remarkably mature drive.
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Even though Petter could not ultimately challenge for the win, he was fast and put pressure on Hirvonen and Ford. Subaru is indeed improving.
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Related links
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Turkey 2006
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New Zealand 2006
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