2014 Rally Australia

2014 Coates Hire Rally Australia
*23rd Rally Australia*
2014 Coates Hire Rally Australia; 23rd Rally Australia
Round 10 of the 2014 World Rally Championship season
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Host country	Australia
Rally base	Coffs Harbour, Australia
Dates run	September 12 – September 14, 2014
Stages	20 (304.34 km; 189.11 miles)
Stage surface	Gravel
Statistics
Crews	27 at start, 23 at finish
Overall results
Overall winner	Sébastien Ogier; Julien Ingrassia; Volkswagen Motorsport

Host country

Australia

Rally baseCoffs Harbour, Australia

Dates runSeptember 12 – September 14, 2014

Stages20 (304.34 km; 189.11 miles)

The 2014 Coates Hire Rally Australia was the tenth round of the 2014 World Rally Championship season. The event was based in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, and started on 12 September and finished on 14 September after twenty special stages, totaling 304.3 competitive kilometres.

French driver Sébastien Ogier won the Rally Australia for the second time, taking his sixth victory of the 2014 season. Volkswagen completed a podium lockout by having all three cars finishing in podium positions at the end of the rally.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Co-driver	Team	Car	Class	Time	Difference	Points
Overall classification
1	1	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	WRC	2:53:18.0	0.0	27
2	2	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Volkswagen Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	WRC	2:53:24.8	+6.8	21
3	9	Andreas Mikkelsen	Ola Fløene	Volkswagen Motorsport II	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	WRC	2:54:36.0	+1:18.0	15
4	3	Kris Meeke	Paul Nagle	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT	Citroën DS3 WRC	WRC	2:55:02.0	+1:44.0	13
5	5	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen	M-Sport World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	WRC	2:55:11.6	+1:53.6	10
6	20	Hayden Paddon	John Kennard	Hyundai Motorsport N	Hyundai i20 WRC	WRC	2:56:14.2	+2:56.2	8
7	7	Thierry Neuville	Nicolas Gilsoul	Hyundai Shell World Rally Team	Hyundai i20 WRC	WRC	2:57:46.2	+4:28.2	6
8	6	Elfyn Evans	Daniel Barritt	M-Sport World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	WRC	2:58:28.0	+5:10.0	4
9	10	Robert Kubica	Maciek Szczepaniak	RK M-Sport World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	WRC	2:59:57.8	+6:39.8	2
10	8	Chris Atkinson	Stéphane Prévot	Hyundai Shell World Rally Team	Hyundai i20 WRC	WRC	3:02:47.4	+9:29.4	1
WRC-2 standings
1 (11.)	36	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Giovanni Bernacchini	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Ford Fiesta RRC	WRC-2	3:05:11.1	0.0	25
2 (12.)	35	Jari Ketomaa	Kaj Lindström	Drive Dmack	Ford Fiesta R5	WRC-2	3:07:01.5	+1:50.4	18
3 (13.)	32	Yuriy Protasov	Pavlo Cherepin	Yuriy Protasov	Ford Fiesta RRC	WRC-2	3:07:48.1	+2:37.0	15
4 (14.)	37	Lorenzo Bertelli	Mitia Dotta	FWRT s.r.l.	Ford Fiesta RRC	WRC-2	3:08:14.1	+3:03.0	12
5 (15.)	45	Subhan Aksa	Nicola Arena	Bosowa Rally Team	Ford Fiesta RRC	WRC-2	3:11:51.3	+6:40.2	10
6 (23.)	33	Massimiliano Rendina	Mario Pizzuti	www.Rallyproject.com srl	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X	WRC-2	4:16:05.9	+1:10:54.8	8

Day	Stage	Name	Length	Winner	Car	Time	Rally leader
Leg 1 (12 Sep)	SS1	Hydes Creek 1	10.73 km	Sébastien Ogier	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	6:26.6	Sébastien Ogier
	SS2	Bellingen 1	10.72 km	Kris Meeke	Citroën DS3 WRC	6:26.2	Sébastien Ogier
	SS3	Newry 1	24.91 km	Kris Meeke	Citroën DS3 WRC	14:46.1	Kris Meeke
	SS4	Hydes Creek 2	10.73 km	Sébastien Ogier	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	6:19.9
	SS5	Bellingen 2	10.72 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	6:15.9
	SS6	Newry 2	24.91 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	14:22.7
	SS7	SSS 1	1.56 km	Sébastien Ogier	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	1:37.2	Jari-Matti Latvala
	SS8	SSS 2	1.56 km	Sébastien Ogier	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	1:35.6	Sébastien Ogier
Leg 2 (13 Sep)	SS9	Nambucca 1	48.92 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	27:01.6	Jari-Matti Latvala
	SS10	Valla 1	8.96 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	4:23.7	Jari-Matti Latvala
	SS11	Nambucca 2	48.92 km	Sébastien Ogier	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	26:39.4	Sébastien Ogier
	SS12	Valla 2	8.96 km	Sébastien Ogier	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	4:19.8
	SS13	SSS 3	1.56 km	Sébastien Ogier	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	1:40.8
	SS14	SSS 4	1.56 km	Sébastien Ogier	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	1:39.7
Leg 3 (14 Sep)	SS15	Shipmans 1	24.72 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	12:46.9
	SS16	Bucca 1	10.86 km	Sébastien Ogier	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	6:38.2
	SS17	Wedding Bells 1	9.23 km	Kris Meeke	Citroën DS3 WRC	5:26.0
	SS18	Shipmans 2	24.72 km	Sébastien Ogier	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	12:32.7
	SS19	Bucca 2	10.86 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	6:29.4
	SS20	Wedding Bells 2 (Power Stage)	9.23 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	5:20.7

Pos	Driver	Car	Time	Diff.	Pts
1	Jari-Matti Latvala	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	5:20.7	0.0	3
2	Sébastien Ogier	Volkswagen Polo R WRC	5:21.9	+1.2	2
3	Kris Meeke	Citroën DS3 WRC	5:24.5	+3.8	1

2014 Rally Australia

Results

Event standings

Special stages

Power Stage

Standings after the rally

WRC

Other

References

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