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In terms of rally wins, both Citroen drivers Loeb and Ogier won as many events. For Citroen this was an excellent result but it's Loeb's lowest score since 2003. Loeb still scored most podium finishes whereas both Ford drivers scored one less each. For Hirvonen this was great comeback from abysmal 2010 score.
In interesting comparison to earlier year, the four works drivers of Citroen and Ford were in a category of their own. Privateer Petter Solberg managed only two, being equaled by Mini's Dani Sordo and his compatriot at Stobart Ford's, young Mads Ostberg.
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Nobody managed perfect points scoring record, as all top drivers either retired or finished outside top-10 at least one. Closest were both Ford drivers, each racked points in all but one rally each. Admittedly, Latvala's score was saved by his Power Stage win in Sardinia as he was twice outside top-10.
Although Petter Solberg didn't reach podium so often, he was very consistent points scorer. At Mini things were different. Dani Sordo finished all but one of his outings whereas Kris Meeke finished only twice. Thus it was Mini that scored most retirements as a team despite contesting only handful of rounds.
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For the first time since Loeb's semi-private season of 2006 he didn't win most of the stages during the season. This honor went to Jari-Matti Latvala with Sebastien Ogier a close third. Loeb did score most stages in rally lead although here team-mate Ogier was close in his heels. It's also notable that list of drivers that were able to take the lead was much longer than in previous year, including rare names like P-G Andersson and Jari Ketomaa, but also Sordo in brand new Mini.
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Finland retained the title of fastest rally with handsome margin while Acropolis was slowest this year. Season saw no increase in rally lengths but at least the trend of diminishing distance did not continue. Number of entries dropped a little as three events had less than 30 entrants. Attrition ratio was abnormally high on those rallies that counted towards WRC Academy as those competitors did not compete third day and were thus listed as non-finishers.
Long stages remained in favour, again three stages exceeding 40 kilometers and shortest almost all were super specials. Average speeds remained between 130 and 120 km/h in nine out of ten fastest stages, of which one was in Australia and one in Alsace besides the normally fastest Finnish stages.
Top four of most numerous makes were still Ford, Mitsubishi, Citroen and Subaru although number of Fords increased considerably. Finland and United Kingdom were still the two most numerous nationalities amongs the cews but number of French crews kept steady enough to take the third slot.
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Latvala gave one win and several other positions to help Hirvonen in championship fight. But he won the most stages during the season.
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