Rally Australia 2011

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Flag of Australia.svg Rally Australia 2011
Racing data
10th of 13 races of the 2011 World Rally Championship
Surname: Rally Australia
Date: 8-11 September 2011
Begin: Coffs Harbor
Exams: 26 tests over 368.96 km
Distance: 1246.78 km
Covering: gravel
Podium
First: FinlandFinland Mikko Hirvonen World Rally Team
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
Second: FinlandFinland Jari-Matti Latvala Ford World Rally Team
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
Third: NorwayNorway Petter Solberg Petter Solberg World Rally Team
NorwayNorway
Mikko Hirvonen / Jarmo Lehtinen in the Ford Fiesta RS WRC

The 2011 Rally Australia was the tenth round of the 2011 World Rally Championship and the fifth round of the 2011 Production World Rally Championship . The rally was held from 8-11. September 2011 in the area of Coffs Harbor in New South Wales .

background

After a one-year hiatus, the Rally Australia was returned to the calendar of the World Rally Championship for the 2011 season . In the past few years the Rally Australia had changed location several times. After riots at the last event in 2009, the rally moved to Coffs Harbor in New South Wales.

Kimi Räikkönen and his Ice 1 Racing team decided not to start at the 2011 Rally Australia for organizational reasons, although he had already registered for the event. A team that is registered in the WRC for manufacturer points like Ice 1 Racing must, due to the regulations, appear at all registered events and complete at least two rallies outside of Europe per season. Raikkonen and his team had only competed in one overseas rally before, and after the Rally Australia there was no more on the calendar so that he could no longer have met the requirement. As a result, Raikkonen had to pay a fine of 16,200 euros to the race stewards for not showing up and the Ice 1 Racing team was also removed from the manufacturers' championship.

Citroën works driver Sébastien Loeb traveled to Australia as championship leader 25 points ahead of his teammate Sébastien Ogier . Mikko Hirvonen, the best Ford driver, was 36 points behind Loeb before the rally.

Reports

Day 1 (Thursday, September 8th)

On Thursday evening, the first two of a total of 26 special stages were on the program. The best times were achieved by the two Citroën works drivers, with Ogier taking a 0.6 second lead over Loeb into the second day.

Day 2 (Friday, September 9th)

On Friday morning, Sébastien Loeb took the lead in the overall standings. However, he overturned on the subsequent SS 4 due to a driving error, whereupon he could not continue the journey. Then his team-mate Sébastien Ogier took the lead again. But even this only lasted a short time. On SS6 Ogier came off the road in slippery conditions and crashed into a tree, so that he was also forced to give up. The two Ford works drivers Mikko Hirvonen and Jari-Matti Latvala led the rally. At the end of the day, after ten special stages, Hirvonen was seven seconds ahead of Latvala. Third-placed Citroën privateer Petter Solberg was already 44.3 seconds back.

3rd day (Saturday, September 10th)

After the accidents the day before, the two Citroën works drivers were allowed to start again with repaired vehicles on Saturday under the Superally regulations . However, Ogier had received 20 minutes and Loeb even 30 minutes in time penalties, the drivers no longer played a role in the battle for the top positions. The leading Ford duo continued to set the pace on the first four special stages on Saturday morning. Since Hirvonen was the first to go out on the track and thus played the “street sweeper”, his team-mate Latvala, who started behind him, had an advantage. Latvala set the best times on all four stages and was 17.2 seconds ahead of Hirvonen. Petter Solberg , however, continued to lose ground. In the afternoon on SS 15, the Stobart-Ford of Henning Solberg, who had previously placed fourth, stopped with a technical defect. After SS 16, Latvala's lead was already 26.2 seconds. On the following two stages, Latvala took it easy and Hirvonen shortened his gap to 22.6 seconds. At the end of the day, after completing 20 special stages, Latvala had a lead of 22.7 seconds over Hirvonen. With 59.5 seconds behind, Solberg was already too far behind to be able to approach again under normal circumstances. Loeb and Ogier had set all the best times in the afternoon and rolled up the field from behind. While Ogier had moved up to eleventh place and within reach of the points, Loeb was still in 16th place.

4th day (Sunday, September 11th)

Six special stages took place on Sunday. Evgeny Novikov , who had previously been ninth, dropped out due to a rollover to SS 22 . Hirvonen made up a few seconds on Latvala in the morning and had already reduced his deficit to 13.4 seconds after SS 24. On SS 25, the team orders determined the action. Latvala stopped on the test and waited a few seconds. He gave his almost certain victory to his team-mate Hirvonen, who then took the lead in the rally. Citroën also resorted to strategic means. Instead of securing a possible eighth place, Ogier also stopped on the stage and lost almost ten minutes. Loeb moved past Ogier to tenth place, the last point placement. Loeb, Latvala and Petter Solberg secured the bonus points in the power stage. Hirvonen finally won with 14.7 seconds ahead of Latvala and 44.8 seconds ahead of Petter Solberg. Supported by numerous failures, Matthew Wilson and Khalid Al Qassimi , who were placed behind, achieved good placements. Some PWRC vehicles were able to move up into the points, albeit with a large gap to the leaders. Hayden Paddon won the PWRC classification and thus secured the championship title in the PWRC class early. With the win, Hirvonen was able to reduce his deficit in the World Championship to Loeb to 15 points. Ogier was 29 points short of leading the table at this point.

Classifications

Bottom line

rank driver Co-driver automobile time Residue Points + power stage
WRC
01 FinlandFinland Mikko Hirvonen FinlandFinland Jarmo Lehtinen Ford Fiesta RS WRC 3: 35: 59.0 25th
02 FranceFrance Jari-Matti Latvala FinlandFinland Miikka Anttila Ford Fiesta RS WRC 3: 36: 13.7 00: 14.7 18 + 2
03 NorwayNorway Petter Solberg United KingdomUnited Kingdom Chris Patterson Citroën DS3 WRC 3: 36: 43.8 00: 44.8 15 + 1
04th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Matthew Wilson United KingdomUnited Kingdom Scott Martin Ford Fiesta RS WRC 3: 44: 44.2 08: 45.2 12
05 United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Khalid Al Qassimi United KingdomUnited Kingdom Michael Orr Ford Fiesta RS WRC 3: 48: 32.3 12: 33.3 10
06th New ZealandNew Zealand Hayden Paddon New ZealandNew Zealand John Kennard Subaru Impreza WRX STI 3: 53: 28.3 17: 29.3 08th
07th PolandPoland Michał Kościuszko PolandPoland Maciej Szczepaniak Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 3: 55: 00.3 19: 01.3 06th
08th UkraineUkraine Oleksandr Saliuk jun UkraineUkraine Pavlo Cherepin Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 3: 57: 07.5 21: 08.5 04th
09 MexicoMexico Benito Guerra SpainSpain Borja Rozada Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 3: 58: 47.9 22: 48.9 02
10 FranceFrance Sébastien Loeb MonacoMonaco Daniel Elena Citroën DS3 WRC 4: 06: 01.9 30: 02.9 01 + 3
PWRC
01 (6) New ZealandNew Zealand Hayden Paddon New ZealandNew Zealand John Kennard Subaru Impreza WRX STI 3: 53: 28.3 25th
02 (7) PolandPoland Michał Kościuszko PolandPoland Maciej Szczepaniak Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 3: 55: 00.3 01: 32.0 18th
03 (8) UkraineUkraine Oleksandr Saliuk jun UkraineUkraine Pavlo Cherepin Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 3: 57: 07.5 03: 39.2 15th
04 (9) MexicoMexico Benito Guerra SpainSpain Borja Rozada Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 3: 58: 47.9 05: 19.6 12
05 (12) UkraineUkraine Valeriy Gorban UkraineUkraine Andrey Nikolayev Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 4: 06: 21.1 12: 52.8 10
06 (16) ItalyItaly Gianluca Linari ItalyItaly Nicola Arena Subaru Impreza WRX STI 4: 14: 49.2 21: 20.9 08th
07 (17) AustraliaAustralia Brendan Reeves AustraliaAustralia Rhianon Smyth Subaru Impreza WRX STI 4: 17: 19.2 23: 50.9 06th
08 (18) AustraliaAustralia Nathan Quinn AustraliaAustralia David Green Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 4: 17: 53.6 24: 25.3 04th
09 (20) United KingdomUnited Kingdom Harry Hunt United KingdomUnited Kingdom Robbie Durant Citroën DS3 R3 4: 25: 40.9 32: 12.6 02
10 (21) United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Bader Al Jabri IrelandIreland Stephen McAuley Subaru Impreza WRX STI 4: 29: 41.2 36: 12.9 01
  1. ↑ a b c Bonus points for placement on the Power Stage .

Special stages

Day WP
number 		begin WP name length WP winner time Ø km / h leader
Day 1
(September 8th - 9th) 		WP1 19:15 Coffs Jetty Precinct 1 03.77 km FranceFrance Sébastien Ogier 02: 46.1 081.71 km / h FranceFrance Sébastien Ogier
WP2 7:30 p.m. Coffs Jetty Precinct 2 03.77 km FranceFrance Sébastien Loeb 02: 41.1 084.25 km / h
WP3 10:03 Shipmans 1 29.03 km FranceFrance Sébastien Loeb 15: 17.0 113.97 km / h FranceFrance Sébastien Loeb
WP4 10:58 Brooklana 1 12.78 km NorwayNorway Petter Solberg 10: 01.9 076.44 km / h FranceFrance Sébastien Ogier
WP5 11:29 Ulong 1 12.45 km FinlandFinland Jari-Matti Latvala 06: 37.9 112.64 km / h
WP6 14:42 Shipmans 2 29.03 km FinlandFinland Jari-Matti Latvala 16: 15.2 107.17 km / h FinlandFinland Mikko Hirvonen
WP7 15:37 Brooklana 2 12.78 km FinlandFinland Mikko Hirvonen 10: 23.1 073.84 km / h
WP8 16:08 Ulong 2 12.45 km FinlandFinland Jari-Matti Latvala 06: 55.1 107.97 km / h
WP9 18:30 Coffs Jetty Precinct 3 03.77 km FinlandFinland Jari-Matti Latvala 02: 51.0 079.37 km / h
WP10 18:45 Coffs Jetty Precinct 4 03.77 km FinlandFinland Mikko Hirvonen 02: 49.9 079.88 km / h
Day 2
(September 10th) 		WP11 08:33 Welshes 1 21.10 km FinlandFinland Jari-Matti Latvala 12: 10.2 104.03 km / h FinlandFinland Jari-Matti Latvala
WP12 09:21 Grace 1 19.77 km FinlandFinland Jari-Matti Latvala 11: 10.9 106.08 km / h
WP13 10:14 Valla 1 14.84 km FinlandFinland Jari-Matti Latvala 08: 56.2 099.63 km / h
WP14 10:54 Urunga 1 13.79 km FinlandFinland Jari-Matti Latvala 08: 41.8 095.14 km / h
WP15 14:02 Welshes 2 21.10 km FranceFrance Sébastien Ogier 11: 55.2 106.21 km / h
WP16 14:50 Grace 2 19.77 km FranceFrance Sébastien Ogier 10: 56.0 108.49 km / h
WP17 15:43 Valla 2 14.84 km FranceFrance Sébastien Ogier 08: 39.7 102.80 km / h
WP18 16:23 Urunga 2 13.79 km FranceFrance Sébastien Loeb 08: 28.8 097.57 km / h
WP19 18:30 Coffs Jetty Precinct 5 03.77 km FranceFrance Sébastien Loeb 02: 34.9 087.62 km / h
WP20 18:45 Coffs Jetty Precinct 6 03.77 km FranceFrance Sébastien Ogier 02: 33.8 088.24 km / h
Day 3
(September 11th) 		WP21 06:56 Bucca 1 14.83 km FinlandFinland Mikko Hirvonen 07: 18.3 121.81 km / h
WP22 08:19 Plum pudding 1 30.00 km FinlandFinland Jari-Matti Latvala 16: 26.3 109.50 km / h
WP23 09:32 Clarence 1 04.58 km FranceFrance Sébastien Loeb 02: 22.8 115.46 km / h
WP24 12:03 Bucca 2 14.83 km FinlandFinland Mikko Hirvonen 07: 10.6 123.99 km / h
WP25 13:26 Plum pudding 2 30.00 km FinlandFinland Mikko Hirvonen 16: 07.8 111.59 km / h FinlandFinland Mikko Hirvonen
WP26 3:30 p.m. Clarence 2 04.58 km FranceFrance Sébastien Loeb 02: 18.1 119.39 km / h

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ After protests: Rally Australia is moving again (Motorsport-Total.com on September 29, 2010)
  2. ↑ FIA.com-Championships-WRC ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (FIA.com, accessed September 22, 2011) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fia.com
  3. ↑ Ogier leads the Australian rally, Loeb second (Motorsport-Total.com on September 8, 2011)
  4. ↑ Drama Down Under: Loeb and Ogier out (Motorsport-Total.com on September 9, 2011)
  5. ↑ Australia: Ford leads on Friday (Motorsport-Total.com on September 9, 2011)
  6. ↑ SS11-14: Latvala takes the lead (Motorsport-Total.com on September 10, 2011)
  7. ↑ SS15-16: Latvala extends lead in Australia (Motorsport-Total.com on September 10, 2011)
  8. ↑ SS17-18: Ford confidently defends the one-two lead (Motorsport-Total.com on September 10, 2011)
  9. ↑ SS19-20: Ford has a comfortable lead for the last stage (Motorsport-Total.com on September 10, 2011)
  10. ↑ Hirvonen wins in Australia (Motorsport-Total.com on September 11, 2011)
  11. ↑ Paddon is the new production car world champion (Motorsport-Total.com on September 12, 2011)