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Event
Rally Australia

Date
Thu 15th November 2018 (UTC)

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Time
00:00:00 UTC

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24-12-01 16:00 (PST Los Angeles)
24-12-01 18:00 (CST Chicago)
24-12-01 19:00 (EST New York)
24-12-02 00:00 (GMT London)
24-12-02 01:00 (CET Paris)
24-12-02 04:00 (GST Dubai)
24-12-02 05:30 (IST Kolkata)
24-12-02 09:00 (JST Tokyo)
24-12-02 11:00 (AEDT Sydney)

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League
WRC

Season
2018

Round
13

Status


Location
Coffs Harbour

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Description
Rally Australia is an automobile rally event which was held in and around Perth, Western Australia from 1988 until 2006, when that state's tourism commission severed its collaboration with the event. The rally was part of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship in 1988 and the World Rally Championship from 1989 to 2006. The event returned in 2009 to the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales in early September and alternated with Rally New Zealand for 2010 and 2012 before becoming an annual fixture in its own right from 2013. From 2011 the event was relocated to Coffs Harbour.
The event has also been a round of the Australian Rally Championship although not consistently as the ARC technical regulations has been incompatible with the WRC in some years. Similarly the Western Australian Rally Championship has also been a part of Rally Australia during its Perth based history.
During the years when Rally New Zealand replaced Rally Australia on the WRC calendar, the rally was run as an Australian Rally Championship round, titled Coffs Coast Rally.

The 2018 Rally Australia (formally known as the 27. Kennards Hire Rally Australia) was a motor racing event for rally cars that took place between 15 and 18 November. The event was open to entries competing in World Rally Cars and cars complying with Group R regulations. It marked the twenty-seventh running of Rally Australia and was the final round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship and its support series, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships. The 2018 event was based in Coffs Harbour in New South Wales and consisted of twenty-four special stages. The rally covered a total competitive distance of a 316.30 km (196.54 miles) and an additional 698.91 km (434.28 miles) in transport stages.

Jari-Matti Latvala has taken his first victory for almost two years as Sebastien Ogier seals the 2018 World Rally Championship title with main rivals Ott Tanak and Thierry Neuville both dropping out of contention.
Neuville, struggling throughout Rally Australia in eighth place, attempted to up the pressure but on SS22 with two stages to go but the Hyundai driver was caught out pushing and lost a wheel in damage sustained in an off which effectively ended his title charge.
Tanak’s own fortunes were dwindling having lost the lead of Rally Australia at the end of SS21 after a minor off, handing Latvala the lead, and while aiming to recover he crashed off on the penultiamte stage to hand Ogier the title. Ogier duly sealed his sixth consecutive WRC drivers’ title in style with victory on the Power Stage to take fifth place overall.


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Result List


Result Description
Pos /Driver /Co-driver /Team /Time /

1/ J. LATVALA /M. ANTTILA /TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRT /2:59:52.0
2/ H. PADDON /S. MARSHALL /HYUNDAI SHELL MOBIS WRT /+32.5
3/ M. OSTBERG /T. ERIKSEN /CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT /+52.2
4/ E. LAPPI /J. FERM /TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRT /+1:02.3
5/ OGIER /J. INGRASSIA /M-SPORT FORD WORLD RALLY TEAM /+2:30.8
6/ E. EVANS /D. BARRITT /M-SPORT FORD WORLD RALLY TEAM /+3:05.1
7/ C. BREEN /S. MARTIN /CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT /+8:59.0
8/ A. HELLER /J. DIAZ /M-SPORT FORD WORLD RALLY TEAM /+22:28.5
9/ S. GLENNEY /A. SARANDIS //None /+27:01.8
10/ J. SERDERIDIS/ L. VANNESTE /M-SPORT FORD WORLD RALLY TEAM /+35:14.1

FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers

1. /Sébastien OGIER /219
2. /Thierry NEUVILLE /201
3. /Ott TÄNAK /181
4. /Jari-Matti LATVALA /128
5. /Esapekka LAPPI /126

FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers

1. /TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRT Toyota /368
2. /HYUNDAI SHELL MOBIS WRT Hyundai /341
3. /M-SPORT FORD WORLD RALLY TEAM Ford /324
4. /CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT Citroen /237


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