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Rally Latvia 2024 counts for:
2024 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2024 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2024 FIA World Rally Championship 2 (for Teams and Drivers/Co-drivers)
2024 FIA World Rally Championship 3 (for Drivers/Co-drivers)
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| 649th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 8 of 13 |
| Official name: | Tet Rally Latvia |
| Edition: | 12th |
| Date: | from Thursday 18-Jul-2024 to Sunday 21-Jul-2024 |
| Rally HQ: | Liepaja; Latvia |
| Clerk of the Course: | Janis Krastins |
| Surface: | Gravel |
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| Entries: | 40 | |
| Starters: | 38 | |
| Finishers: | 32 | (84.2% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 20 | |
| Shortest: | 2.56 | km | (SS16 Liepaja City Stage) |
| Longest: | 27.56 | km | (SS6 Tukums 2) |
| Slowest: | 75.23 | km/h | (SS16 Liepaja City Stage) |
| Fastest: | 137.06 | km/h | (SS15 Dinsdurbe) |
| Planned stage distance: | 300.13 | km | (22.3% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 300.13 | km | (22.3% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 1,048.70 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,348.83 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 14th win and 24th podium for Kalle Rovanpera. |
| Second place was 103rd podium for Sebastien Ogier. |
| Third place was 49th podium for Ott Tanak. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 90th win and 1-2 win were 255th to 256th podiums for Toyota. |
| | Third place was 123rd podium for Hyundai. |
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Rovanpera started his rally career at Latvia as he wasn't old enough to compete in rallies in his native Finland. As he now returned to the scene, he jumped to lead from first stage and extended his lead bit by bit on almost every stage. Speeds were high so differences were small too but Kalle made it look so effortless that it was no wonder that he came home first.
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Tanak struggled with fading brakes on first day, losing time and places and finishing first day on lowly 6th place. On next day he improved and gained several places until on SS14 his car came stranded under loose advertisement canvas. Nominal time saw no time loss for that. On final day he charged and got third overall after Sesks had problems on PS.
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Star of the M-Sport WRT was unquestionably local here Martins Sesks who won two stages in Friday and held on to podium place until diff problems on final stage. This elevated Fourmaux (pictured) to best M-Sport driver. His good drive was overlooked due Sesks brilliance, but in all honesty Adrien again drove well, fast and sensibly.
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Related links
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Rally Poland 2024
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Rally Finland 2024
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