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2008 Rally of Turkey

Field	Value
name	2008 Rally of Turkey
native_name	9th Rally of Turkey
round	8
championship	2008 World Rally Championship
previous_round	2008 Acropolis Rally
next_round	2008 Rally Finland
country
rallybase	Antalya
startdate	June 12
enddate	15 2008
stages	19
stagekm	360.74
overallkm	1263.74
surface	Gravel
driver1	FIN Mikko Hirvonen
team1	BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team
teamsstart	60
teamsfinish	38

The 9th Rally of Turkey, the 8th round of the 2008 World Rally Championship season took place between June 12–15, 2008. The event returned after a year sabbatical and was held in the south west of Turkey, with the rally headquarters and service park based in the seaside resort of Kemer. The special stages are held on gravel mountain roads to the south west of Antalya. The rally was won by Finland's Mikko Hirvonen, with Jari-Matti Latvala finishing second and Sébastien Loeb third. With this result Hirvonen took a three-point lead over Loeb in the drivers world championship going into the six-week summer break.

Event

Day one

The event kicked off with a short superspecial stage on Thursday evening, which was won by Sébastien Loeb. On Friday - the first full day of the rally - he was due to run first and 'clean' the roads. This had a big impact on his performance (his stage times were up to 29 seconds quicker on the second pass through the stages) and meant that he would only win one stage on the day. Despite this he would still be leading the end of day one as the Ford drivers all took a tactical approach to the final stage of the day in order to secure a more advantageous road position for day two - a tactic criticised by the Citroën Total team boss Olivier Quesnel. Behind Loeb were the drivers for the BP-Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team and the Stobart VK M-Sport team, with the last of the Ford quartet, fifth place man Mikko Hirvonen, a mere 6.2 seconds behind Loeb at the end of day one. Ahead of Hirvonen was Gigi Galli in fourth place. Galli won three stages, with his teammate Henning Solberg winning one stage and finishing the day in second place. The remaining Ford driver was Jari-Matti Latvala who ended the day in third place after an astonishing performance that saw him take two stage wins (one by a margin of 15 seconds) and pick up two punctures.

Behind the leaders was Subaru driver Petter Solberg. The new Subaru was more disappointing than on its debut in Greece with Petter Solberg nearly 50 seconds off the pace. Matthew Wilson was in seventh spot, just over a minute behind despite suffering with a cold. In the final points paying position was Dani Sordo. Sordo was running in fifth until suspension damage on stage 7 put him back into 8th place.

Day two

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Day three

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Behind the podium finishers, Citroën's Dani Sordo easily picked off Henning Solberg to claim fourth place. Henning's brother Petter Solberg maintained his sixth position, never really being in a position to challenge the Stobart Ford driver. Matthew Wilson shrugged off his cold to finish in seventh with eighth place going to privateer Conrad Rautenbach, scoring his second points finish of the season. Federico Villagra and Barry Clark finished ninth and tenth, thus earning the Munchi's Ford team three valuable manufacturer points.

Results

Pos.	Driver	Co-driver	Car	Time	Difference
1.	FIN Mikko Hirvonen	FIN Jarmo Lehtinen	Ford Focus RS WRC 07	4:42:07.1	0.0
2	FIN Jari-Matti Latvala	FIN Miikka Anttila	Ford Focus RS WRC 07	4:42:15.0	7.9
3	FRA Sébastien Loeb	MCO Daniel Elena	Citroën C4 WRC	4:42:32.8	25.7
4	ESP Dani Sordo	ESP Marc Marti	Citroën C4 WRC	4:44:32.7	2:25.6
5	NOR Henning Solberg	NOR Cato Menkerud	Ford Focus RS WRC 07	4:44:40.8	2:33.7
6	NOR Petter Solberg	GBR Phil Mills	Subaru Impreza WRC 2008	4:44:55.3	2:48.2
7	GBR Matthew Wilson	GBR Scott Martin	Ford Focus RS WRC 07	4:46:31.3	4:24.2
8	ZIM Conrad Rautenbach	GBR David Senior	Citroën C4 WRC	4:49:53.8	7:46.7
1	AUT Andreas Aigner	GER Klaus Wicha	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9	5:02:21.6	0.0
2	SWE Patrik Sandell	SWE Emil Axelsson	Peugeot 207 S2000	5:03:10.3	48.7
3	ITA Mirco Baldacci	ITA Giovanni Agnese	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9	5:05:22.6	3:01.0
4	EST Martin Raum	EST Silver Kutt	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9	5:07:52.6	5:31.0
5	ITA Armindo Araujo	ITA Miguel Ramalho	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9	5:08:45.4	6:23.8
6	RUS Evgeniy Vertunov	RUS Georgy Troshkin	Subaru Impreza	5:09:14.6	6:53.0
7	ITA Simone Campedelli	ITA Danilo Fappani	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9	5:14:40.7	12:19.10
8	ITA Giorgio Bacco	SMR Silvio Stefanelli	Subaru Impreza	5:25:14.3	22:52.7

Retirements

ITA Gigi Galli - ill health (SS16)
FIN Toni Gardemeister - engine (SS15)
SWE Per-Gunnar Andersson - electrical (SS15)
EST Urmo Aava - (SS19)
JPN Toshi Arai - (SS16)
CZE Martin Prokop - excluded (SS11)
NOR Eyvind Brynildsen - (SS15)
GER Uwe Nittel - (SS17)
ITA Francesco Trevisin - (SS9)
JOR Amjad Farrah - (SS9)
RUS Evgeny Novikov - (SS9)
RUS Evgeny Aksakov - (SS9)

Special stages

All dates and times are EEST (UTC+3).

Day	Stage	Time	Name	Length	Winner	Time	Avg. spd.	Rally leader	1
(12/13 JUN)	SS1	17:25	SS2	08:38	SS3	09:21	SS4	09:59	SS5	12:57	SS6	13:40	SS7	14:18	SS8	17:01	SS9	17:47	2
(14 JUN)	SS10	09:28	SS11	10:16	SS12	12:59	SS13	13:49	SS14	16:32	SS15	18:23	SS16	19:01	3
(15 JUN)	SS17	09:38	SS18	12:04	SS19	13:07
Antalya SSS 1	2.60 km	FRA S. Loeb	2:07.6	73.4 km/h	FRA S. Loeb
Perge 1	22.43 km	EST U. Aava	16:03.6	83.8 km/h	FIN M. Hirvonen
Myra 1	24.15 km	FIN J. Latvala	21:05.3	68.7 km/h
Kumluca 1	9.90 km	ITA G. Galli	7:47.4	76.3 km/h
Perge 2	22.43 km	ITA G. Galli	15:42.8	85.6 km/h
Myra 2	24.15 km	FIN J. Latvala	20:46.0	69.8 km/h	FIN J. Latvala
Kumluca 2	9.90 km	FRA S. Loeb	7:38.9	77.7 km/h	FIN M. Hirvonen
Chimera 1	16.94 km	ITA G. Galli	12:21.5	82.2 km/h
Phaselis 1	22.40 km	NOR H. Solberg	17:49.3	75.6 km/h	FRA S. Loeb
Chimera 2	16.94 km	FIN M. Hirvonen	11:57.3	85.0 km/h
Silyon 1	27.36 km	FIN M. Hirvonen	21:53.5	75.0 km/h	FIN M. Hirvonen
Kemer 1	20.50 km	EST U. Aava	15:06.9	81.4 km/h
Silyon 2	27.36 km	FIN M. Hirvonen	21:36.8	75.9 km/h
Kemer 2	20.50 km	FIN J. Latvala	14:49.4	83.0 km/h
Phaselis 2	22.40 km	FIN M. Hirvonen
FRA S. Loeb	17:19.2	77.6 km/h
Antalya SSS 2	2.60 km	FRA S. Loeb	2:06.3	74.1 km/h
Olympos 1	31.03 km	EST U. Aava	25:07.5	74.1 km/h
Camyuva	5.50 km	FRA S. Loeb	4:11.2	78.8 km/h
Olympos 2	31.03 km	FIN J. Latvala	24:48.9	75.0 km/h

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	13	14	15	17	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
Finland Mikko Hirvonen	2	2	4	5	1	2	3	1								59
France Sébastien Loeb	1	Ret.	1	1	10	1	1	3								56
Finland Jari-Matti Latvala	12	1	3	15	7	3	7	2								34
Australia Chris Atkinson	3	21	2	2	3	6	Ret.	13								31
ESP Dani Sordo	11	6	17	3	2	5	5	4								30
Norway Petter Solberg	5	4	12	Ret.	Ret.	10	2	6								20
Italy Gigi Galli	6	3	Ret.	7	8	4	Ret.	Ret.								17
NOR Henning Solberg	9	13	5	Ret.	4	7	8	5								16
GBR Matthew Wilson	10	Ret.	6	Ret.	5	12	6	7								12
ARG Federico Villagra			7	6	6	14	13	9								8
Zimbabwe Conrad Rautenbach	Ret.	16	16	4	26	13	10	8								6
EST Urmo Aava		18			Ret.	8	4	Ret.								6
Belgium François Duval	4															5
NOR Andreas Mikkelsen		5				Ret.		19								4
France Jean-Marie Cuoq	7															2
FIN Toni Gardemeister	Ret.	7	Ret.	Ret.	Ret.	Ret.	9	Ret.								2
Sweden Per-Gunnar Andersson	8	Ret.	Ret.	24	Ret.	9	11	Ret.								1
FIN Juho Hänninen		8														1
FRA Sébastien Ogier			8		11	22										1
AUT Andreas Aigner		31		8			14	11								1

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	99	90	53	41	19	10
1	United Kingdom BP Ford World Rally Team	8	18	11	7	13	14	10	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	France Citroën Total World Rally Team	11	4	10	16	9	14	15	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
3	Japan Subaru World Rally Team	10	6	9	8	6	3	8	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4	United Kingdom Stobart M-Sport Ford	8	8	3	3	7	5	3	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
5	Argentina Munchi's Ford World Rally Team	0	0	6	4	4	2	0	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
6	Japan Suzuki World Rally Team	2	3	0	1	0	1	3	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

References

"Rally of Turkey". wrc.com.
"Ford team plays its tactical aces on SS9". wrc.com.
"Citroen Team boss critical of Ford’s tactical game". wrc.com.
"SS4: Hirvonen leads after the morning loop". wrc.com.
"Hirvonen back on top after SS7". wrc.com.
"SS15: Decisive stage proves tactics-free". wrc.com.
"Manufacturers’ points the priority for Ford". wrc.com.
"SS12: Galli loses third". wrc.com.
"Lead battle intensifies on SS17". wrc.com.
"SS19 Olympos 2 Split times". wrc.com.
"Hirvonen leads Ford 1-2 in Turkey". autosport.com.

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