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Rally Turkey Marmaris 2018 counts for:
2018 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2018 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2018 FIA World Rally Championship 2 (for Teams and Drivers)
2018 FIA World Rally Championship 3 (for Teams and Drivers)
2018 FIA Junior WRC Championship for Drivers
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| 580th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 10 of 13 |
| Official name: | Rally Turkey Marmaris |
| Edition: | 11th |
| Date: | from Thursday 13-Sep-2018 to Sunday 16-Sep-2018 |
| Rally HQ: | Marmaris, Mugla; Turkey |
| Clerk of the Course: | Murat Kaya |
| Surface: | Gravel |
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| Entries: | 52 | |
| Starters: | 45 | |
| Finishers: | 31 | (68.9% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 17 | |
| Shortest: | 2.00 | km | (SS1 SSS Turkey Full Speed) |
| Longest: | 38.10 | km | (SS5 Cetibeli 2) |
| Slowest: | 58.11 | km/h | (SS1 SSS Turkey Full Speed) |
| Fastest: | 92.50 | km/h | (SS16 Gokce) |
| Planned stage distance: | 312.44 | km | (35.7% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 312.44 | km | (35.7% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 562.90 | km |
| Total distance: | 875.34 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 6th win and 17th podium for Ott Tanak. |
| Second place was 63rd podium for Jari-Matti Latvala. |
| Third place was 7th podium for Hayden Paddon. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 49th win and 1-2 win were 159th to 160th podiums for Toyota. |
| | Third place was 42nd podium for Hyundai. |
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Tanak wasn't initially very fast and stalled on stage 5. On second day his speed improved, getting past Latvala and inheriting places when first Neuville and then Ogier hit trouble. After Mikkelsen's puncture, Ott got into lead which he carefully held until the end.
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Only Hyundai that didn't meet with problems was Paddon. Both Neuville and Mikkelsen were clearly faster initially but former suffered damper failure early on second day while latter had puncture and related transmission trouble couple stages later, leaving Paddon to finish on podium.
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M-Sport Ford had similar story. Early on Ogier suffered from dust but got lead after Neuville's problems. But he went off soon afterwards and later Evans took took time penalty to help him. All this meant that Suninen (pictured) was fourth, despite cautious run throughout the rally.
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Once again it was Citroen who fared worst of all. Biggest drama was for Breen, whose car filled with smoke and subsequently caught fire and burned completely. Ostberg stopped with turbo problem and Khalid al-Qassimi (pictured) was team's best placed car at the finish.
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