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Rally Sweden 2025 counts for:
2025 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2025 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2025 FIA World Rally Championship 2 (for Teams and Drivers/Co-drivers)
2025 FIA World Rally Championship 3 (for Teams and Drivers/Co-drivers)
2025 FIA Junior Championship for Drivers
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| 656th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 2 of 14 |
| Official name: | Rally Sweden |
| Edition: | 72nd |
| Date: | from Thursday 13-Feb-2025 to Sunday 16-Feb-2025 |
| Rally HQ: | Umea, Vasterbotten; Sweden |
| Clerk of the Course: | Stig Rune Kjernsli |
| Surface: | Snow |
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| Entries: | 62 | |
| Starters: | 60 | |
| Finishers: | 56 | (93.3% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 18 | |
| Shortest: | 5.16 | km | (SS1 Umea Sprint 1) |
| Longest: | 29.35 | km | (SS17 Vastervik 2) |
| Slowest: | 88.50 | km/h | (SS8 Umea Sprint 2) |
| Fastest: | 128.88 | km/h | (SS10 Sarsjoliden 1) |
| Planned stage distance: | 293.84 | km | (27.9% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 293.84 | km | (27.9% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 759.83 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,053.67 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 10th win and 39th podium for Elfyn Evans. |
| Second place was 6th podium for Takamoto Katsuta. |
| Third place was 70th podium for Thierry Neuville. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 95th win and 1-2 win were 265th to 266th podiums for Toyota. |
| | Third place was 132nd podium for Hyundai. |
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Evans took lead from first stage but it was never very convincing as he three times had to give it up. Last time was before final Power Stage when it seemed that team-mate Katsuta might score his maiden victory. In the end, Evans won PS but also scored overall and Super Sunday points, taking home maximum haul of points. Katsuta rounded up with second, making sure of maximum points for Toyota too.
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All three Hyundais were fast but had various problems. Fourmaux was impressive but had to stop to fasten his helmet which he forgot to secure before stage. His huge push ended up in snowbank. Tanak suffered from leaking fluids and although fastest for long, had to bow to Neuville (pictured). Neuville again played catch-up game, finishing third after he gained positions from his team-mates on SS11.
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M-Sport was left behind again. Munster (pictured) was painfully slow, losing even to his first time team-mate McErlean. Unfortunately, Irishman copied Fourmaux and ended deep into snowback on SS16 although he managed to continue and eventually finished lowly 46th.
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Related links
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Monte Carlo 2025
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Safari 2025
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