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2008 Rally Catalunya

Field	Value
name	2008 Rally Catalunya
native_name	44è Rally RACC Catalunya - Costa Daurada
round	12
championship	2008 World Rally Championship
previous_round	2008 Rally New Zealand
next_round	2008 Tour de Corse
image	Sébastien Loeb - 2008 Rally Catalunya.jpg
caption	Rally winner Sébastien Loeb.
rallybase	Salou
startdate	October 2
enddate	5 2008
stages	18
stagekm	352.87
overallkm	1359.96
surface	Tarmac
driver1	FRA Sébastien Loeb
team1	FRA Citroën Total World Rally Team
car1	Citroën C4 WRC
teamsstart	69
teamsfinish	48

The 2008 Rally Catalunya, officially 44è Rally RACC Catalunya - Costa Daurada, was the 44th Rally Catalunya and the 12th round of the 2008 World Rally Championship season. The rally took place during October 2–5, 2008 and consisted of 18 special stages.

The rally was won by Citroën Total World Rally Team's Sébastien Loeb ahead of his teammate Dani Sordo. This was Citroën's third double win in a row, after previous one-two finishes in Germany and New Zealand. BP Ford World Rally Team's Mikko Hirvonen and François Duval took comfortable third and fourth positions, although only battled with each other and never managed to challenge the Citroëns. Duval eased off in one stage to let Hirvonen, who continued his fight for the drivers' title with Loeb, to take the third place and one extra point.

Subaru World Rally Team's Petter Solberg fought for fifth place with Urmo Aava until the penultimate stage, when Aava retired after making a mistake and breaking his Citroën C4 WRC's suspension. The battle for sixth place went down to the wire, with Stobart M-Sport Ford's Jari-Matti Latvala edging out Subaru's Chris Atkinson by 1.1 seconds. Andreas Mikkelsen drove his privateer Ford Focus RS WRC 07 to eighth place, taking the second points finish of his career.

Results

Pos.	Driver	Co-driver	Car	Time	Difference
1.	FRA Sébastien Loeb	MCO Daniel Elena	Citroën C4 WRC	3:21:17.4	0.0
2.	ESP Dani Sordo	ESP Marc Marti	Citroën C4 WRC	3:21:42.3	24.9
3.	FIN Mikko Hirvonen	FIN Jarmo Lehtinen	Ford Focus RS WRC 07	3:22:19.9	1:02.5
4.	BEL François Duval	FRA Patrick Pivato	Ford Focus RS WRC 07	3:22:28.2	1:10.8
5.	NOR Petter Solberg	GBR Phil Mills	Subaru Impreza WRC 2008	3:24:44.8	3:27.4
6.	FIN Jari-Matti Latvala	FIN Miikka Anttila	Ford Focus RS WRC 07	3:25:21.2	4:03.8
7.	AUS Chris Atkinson	BEL Stéphane Prévot	Subaru Impreza WRC 2008	3:25:22.3	4:04.9
8.	NOR Andreas Mikkelsen	NOR Ola Floene	Ford Focus RS WRC 07	3:26:37.0	5:19.6

Championship standings after the event

Drivers' championship

Pos	Driver	MON
Monaco	SWE
Sweden	MEX
Mexico	ARG
Argentina	JOR
Jordan	ITA
Italy	GRC
Greece	TUR
Turkey	FIN
Finland	GER
Germany	NZL
New Zealand	ESP
Spain	FRA
France	JPN
Japan	GBR
United Kingdom	Pts	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	19	Pos	Driver	MON
Monaco	SWE
Sweden	MEX
Mexico	ARG
Argentina	JOR
Jordan	ITA
Italy	GRC
Greece	TUR
Turkey	FIN
Finland	GER
Germany	NZL
New Zealand	ESP
Spain	FRA
France	JPN
Japan	GBR
United Kingdom	Pts
France Sébastien Loeb	1	Ret.	1	1	10	1	1	3	1	1	1	1				96
Finland Mikko Hirvonen	2	2	4	5	1	2	3	1	2	4	3	3				84
ESP Dani Sordo	11	6	17	3	2	5	5	4	4	2	2	2				59
Australia Chris Atkinson	3	21	2	2	3	6	Ret.	13	3	6	Ret.	7				42
Finland Jari-Matti Latvala	12	1	3	15	7	3	7	2	39	9	Ret.	6				37
Norway Petter Solberg	5	4	12	Ret.	Ret.	10	2	6	6	5	4	5				36
NOR Henning Solberg	9	13	5	Ret.	4	7	8	5	5	7	9	11				22
Italy Gigi Galli	6	3	Ret.	7	8	4	Ret.	Ret.	Ret.	Ret.	Inj.	Inj.				17
Belgium François Duval	4									3	Ret.	4				16
GBR Matthew Wilson	10	Ret.	6	Ret.	5	12	6	7	9	12	17	9				12
EST Urmo Aava		18			Ret.	8	4	Ret.	16	8	5	35				11
ARG Federico Villagra			7	6	6	14	13	9	Ret.		8	12				9
Zimbabwe Conrad Rautenbach	Ret.	16	16	4	26	13	10	8	10	10	Ret.	Ret.				6
NOR Andreas Mikkelsen		5				Ret.		19	12	11		8				5
FIN Toni Gardemeister	Ret.	7	Ret.	Ret.	Ret.	Ret.	9	Ret.	8	10	7	13				5
Sweden Per-Gunnar Andersson	8	Ret.	Ret.	24	Ret.	9	11	Ret.	Ret.	15	6	32				4
France Jean-Marie Cuoq	7															2
Finland Matti Rantanen									7
FIN Juho Hänninen		8					21		13		14	29				1
FRA Sébastien Ogier			8		11	22			36	19		Ret.
AUT Andreas Aigner		31		8			14	11	Ret.		Ret.

Manufacturers' championship

Rank	Team	Event	Total
points	MON
Monaco	SWE
Sweden	MEX
Mexico	ARG
Argentina	JOR
Jordan	ITA
Italy	GRC
Greece	TUR
Turkey	FIN
Finland	GER
Germany	NZL
New Zealand	ESP
Spain	FRA
France	JPN
Japan	GBR
United Kingdom	159	132	80	55	22	20
1	France Citroën Total World Rally Team	11	4	10	16	9	14	15	11	15	18	18	18	-	-	-
2	United Kingdom BP Ford World Rally Team	8	18	11	7	13	14	10	18	9	7	6	11	-	-	-
3	Japan Subaru World Rally Team	10	6	9	8	6	3	8	3	9	7	5	6	-	-	-
4	United Kingdom Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team	8	8	3	3	7	5	3	4	4	6	0	4	-	-	-
5	Argentina Munchi's Ford World Rally Team	0	0	6	4	4	2	0	3	0	0	3	0	-	-	-
6	Japan Suzuki World Rally Team	2	3	0	1	0	1	3	0	2	1	7	0	-	-	-

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