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Rally Sweden 2014 counts for:
2014 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2014 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2014 FIA World Rally Championship 2 (for Teams and Drivers)
2014 FIA World Rally Championship 3 (for Teams and Drivers)
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| 520th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 2 of 13 |
| Official name: | Rally Sweden |
| Edition: | 62nd |
| Date: | from Wednesday 5-Feb-2014 to Saturday 8-Feb-2014 |
| Rally HQ: | Karlstad, Varmland; Sweden |
| Clerk of the Course: | Christina Lundqvist Viklund |
| Surface: | Snow |
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| Entries: | 44 | |
| Starters: | 39 | |
| Finishers: | 30 | (76.9% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 24 | |
| Shortest: | 1.87 | km | (SS11 Hagfors Sprint 1) |
| Longest: | 24.63 | km | (SS23 Vargasen 2) |
| Slowest: | 54.78 | km/h | (SS15 Hagfors Sprint 2) |
| Fastest: | 117.69 | km/h | (SS14 Rammen 2) |
| Planned stage distance: | 323.54 | km | (20.6% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 312.22 | km | (19.9% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 1,259.79 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,572.01 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 9th win and 40th podium for Jari-Matti Latvala. |
| Second place was 1st podium for Andreas Mikkelsen. |
| Third place was 8th podium for Mads Ostberg. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 13th win and 1-2 win were 27th to 28th podiums for Volkswagen. |
| | Third place was 223rd podium for Citroen. |
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After Ogier went off and lost time, battle for win was between Latvala and Mikkelsen. Norwegian fought well but in the end experienced Latvala had the advantage and won.
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Mikkelsen led rally in three separate occasions, initially fighting with Ogier, then with Latvala but his final battle was for second place against Ostberg.
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By final day, Ostberg was 40 seconds away from second place - which seemed too much. However, during the day he almost overtook Mikkelsen and without one cancelled stage, might have succeeded.
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Related links
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Monte Carlo 2014
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Rally Mexico 2014
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