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Safari Rally 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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| 644th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 3 of 13 |
| Official name: | Safari Rally Kenya |
| Edition: | 71st |
| Date: | from Thursday 28-Mar-2024 to Sunday 31-Mar-2024 |
| Rally HQ: | Naivasha, Nakuru County; Kenya |
| Clerk of the Course: | Gurvir Bhabra |
| Surface: | Gravel |
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| Entries: | 29 | |
| Starters: | 28 | |
| Finishers: | 22 | (78.6% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 19 | |
| Shortest: | 4.84 | km | (SS1 SSS Kasarani) |
| Longest: | 36.08 | km | (SS13 Sleeping Warrior 2) |
| Slowest: | 82.26 | km/h | (SS2 Loldia 1) |
| Fastest: | 120.37 | km/h | (SS4 Kedong 1) |
| Planned stage distance: | 367.76 | km | (29.0% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 367.76 | km | (29.0% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 899.81 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,267.57 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 12th win and 22nd podium for Kalle Rovanpera. |
| Second place was 5th podium for Takamoto Katsuta. |
| Third place was 2nd podium for Adrien Fourmaux. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 86th win and 1-2 win were 247th to 248th podiums for Toyota. |
| | Third place was 376th podium for Ford. |
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Rovanpera fared much better than in Sweden, taking lead with road position advantage and keeping out of trouble that hit drivers almost all other drivers. He chose to drive safely during the final day, missing out Sunday and most Power Stage points as well.
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Fourmax finished on podium right after his previous podium finish in previous round. He drove sensibly, not being especially fast but gained places when others collected punctures and mechanical maladies. He did get puncture on final long stage in Saturday but lost no places.
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Neuville had plethora of problems including a puncture, dust getting into the car, finished SS11 on electrical power alone - and rear suspension damage on SS16. Despite all this, he kept going unlike team mates Tanak (hit rock and went off) and Lappi (broken gearbox).
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Related links
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Rally Sweden 2024
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Croatia 2024
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