2006 Acropolis Rally

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The 2006 Acropolis Rally was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 1 and 4 June 2006. It marked the 53rd running of the Acropolis Rally, and was the eight round of the 2006 World Rally Championship season.[1] The event was also the fourth round of the 2006 Production World Rally Championship. The 2006 event was based in the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece and was contested over eighteen special stages, covering a total competitive distance of 355.62km (220.97 miles).

Sebastien Loeb, along with Kronos Citroën World Rally Team were the defending rally winners, having won the previous five rallies in a row. Loeb lead championship rival Marcus Gronholm in the championship by 31 points coming into the weekend.

Gronholm and co-driver Timo Rautiainen won the rally, their first win since the 2006 Swedish Rally and their third win of the season.[2]

Background

Entry List

The following crews were set to enter the rally. The event was open to crews competing in the World Rally Championship and its support category, the Production World Rally Championship, as well as privateer entries that were not registered to score points in the manufacturer's championship. Twenty two were entered under World Rally Car regulations, as were fifteen in the Production WRC category.[3]

World Rally Car entries competing in the World Rally Championship
No. Driver Co-Driver Entrant Car Tyre
1 Template:Flagicon Sebastien Loeb Template:Flagicon Daniel Elena Template:Flagicon Kronos Citroën World Rally Team Citroën Xsara WRC BF
2 Template:Flagicon Xavier Pons Template:Flagicon Carlos del Barrio Template:Flagicon Kronos Citroën World Rally Team Citroën Xsara WRC BF
3 Template:Flagicon Marcus Gronholm Template:Flagicon Timo Rautiainen Template:Flagicon BP Ford World Rally Team Ford Focus RS WRC 06 BF
4 Template:Flagicon Mikko Hirvonen Template:Flagicon Jarmo Lehtinen Template:Flagicon BP Ford World Rally Team Ford Focus RS WRC 06 BF
5 Template:Flagicon Petter Solberg Template:Flagicon Phil Mills Template:Flagicon Subaru World Rally Team Impreza WRC 2006 P
6 Template:Flagicon Chris Atkinson Template:Flagicon Glenn Macneall Template:Flagicon Subaru World Rally Team Impreza WRC 2006 P
7 Template:Flagicon Manfred Stohl Template:Flagicon Ilka Minor Template:Flagicon OMV Peugeot Norway World Rally Team Peugeot 307 WRC BF
8 Template:Flagicon Henning Solberg Template:Flagicon Cato Menkerud Template:Flagicon OMV Peugeot Norway World Rally Team Peugeot 307 WRC BF
9 Template:Flagicon Matthew Wilson Template:Flagicon Michael Orr Template:Flagicon Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team Ford Focus RS WRC 06 BF
10 Template:Flagicon Kosti Katajamäki Template:Flagicon Timo Alanne Template:Flagicon Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team Ford Focus RS WRC 06 BF
11 Template:Flagicon Harri Rovanperä Template:Flagicon Risto Pietiläinen Template:Flagicon Red Bull Škoda Team Škoda Fabia WRC BF
12 Template:Flagicon Andreas Aigner Template:Flagicon Klaus Wicha Template:Flagicon Red Bull Škoda Team Škoda Fabia WRC BF
Group N entries competing in the Production WRC
No. Driver Co-Driver Entrant Car
31 Template:Flagicon Toshihiro Arai Template:Flagicon Tony Sircombe Template:Flagicon Subaru Team Arai Subaru Impreza WRX STI
32 Template:Flagicon Marcos Ligato Template:Flagicon Rubén García Template:Flagicon Tango Rally Team Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX
34 Template:Flagicon Sebastián Beltran Template:Flagicon Ricardo Rojas Template:Flagicon Tango Rally Team Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX
35 Template:Flagicon Gabriel Pozzo Template:Flagicon Daniel Stillo Template:Flagicon Tango Rally Team Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX
36 Template:Flagicon Mirco Baldacci Template:Flagicon Giovanni Agnese Template:Flagicon Mitsubishi Paris West Team Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX
37 Template:Flagicon Jari-Matti Latvala Template:Flagicon Miikka Anttila Template:Flagicon Motoring Club Subaru Impreza WRX STI
38 Template:Flagicon Leszek Kuzaj Template:Flagicon Maciej Szczepaniak Template:Flagicon Syms Rally Team Subaru Impreza WRX STI
39 Template:Flagicon Nasser Al-Attiyah Template:Flagicon Chris Patterson Template:Flagicon QMMF Subaru Impreza WRX STI
40 Template:Flagicon Stefano Marrini Template:Flagicon Sandroni Tiziana Template:Flagicon Errani Team Group Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX
41 Template:Flagicon Takuma Kamada Template:Flagicon Hakaru Ichino Template:Flagicon Subaru Team Quasys Subaru Impreza WRX STI
42 Template:Flagicon Sergey Uspenskiy Template:Flagicon Dmitriy Eremeev Template:Flagicon Subaru Rally Team Russia Subaru Impreza WRX STI
43 Template:Flagicon Andrej Jereb Template:Flagicon Miran Kacin Template:Flagicon OMV CEE World Rally Team Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX
45 Template:Flagicon Aki Teiskonen Template:Flagicon Miika Teiskonen Template:Flagicon Syms Rally Team Subaru Impreza WRX STI
46 Template:Flagicon Nigel Heath Template:Flagicon Steve Lancaster Template:Flagicon PSM Motorsport Subaru Impreza WRX STI
60 Template:Flagicon Dimitris Nassoulas Template:Flagicon Mihalis Patrikoussis Template:Flagicon Eko Racing Team Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII
Other major entries
No. Driver Co-Driver Entrant Car
14 Template:Flagicon Dani Sordo Template:Flagicon Marc Martí Template:Flagicon Kronos Racing Citroën Xsara WRC
16 Template:Flagicon Toni Gardemeister Template:Flagicon Jakke Honkanen Template:Flagicon Astra Racing Citroën Xsara WRC
17 Template:Flagicon Jan Kopecký Template:Flagicon Filip Schovánek Template:Flagicon Czech RT Škoda Kopecký Škoda Fabia WRC
18 Template:Flagicon François Duval Template:Flagicon Patrick Pivato Template:Flagicon First Motorsport Škoda Škoda Fabia WRC
19 Template:Flagicon Armodios Vovos Template:Flagicon El-Em Template:Flagicon Armodios Vovos Subaru Impreza S11 WRC 05
20 Template:Flagicon Jussi Välimäki Template:Flagicon Jarkko Kalliolepo Template:Flagicon MMSP LTD Mitsubishi Lancer WRC 05
66 Template:Flagicon Konstantinos Apostolou Template:Flagicon Kriadis Mihalis Template:Flagicon Konstantinos Apostolou Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI
67 Template:Flagicon Manos Stefanis Template:Flagicon Konstantinos Stafanis Template:Flagicon Manos Stefanis Ford Focus WRC 02
78 Template:Flagicon Kirkos Junior Template:Flagicon Ioannis Sengos Template:Flagicon Kirkos Junior Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII
96 Template:Flagicon Dionissis Gazetas Template:Flagicon Athanasios Papageorgiou Template:Flagicon Dionissis Gazetas Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII

Itinerary

All dates and times are CEST (UTC+2).

Date No. Time span Stage name Distance
1 June After 8:00 Amigdaleza [Shakedown] 4.40 km
SS1 After 18:00 Athens Olympic Stadium 1 2.80 km
2 June File:Icon tools.svg 8:00 Service A, Athens
SS2 After 8:38 Imittos 1 11.44 km
SS3 After 9:56 Skourta 1 23.80 km
SS4 After 11:14 Thiva 1 23.76 km
File:Icon tools.svg 13:22 Service B, Athens
SS5 After 14:20 Imittos 2 11.44 km
SS6 After 15:38 Skourta 2 23.76 km
SS7 After 16:52 Thiva 2 23.76 km
File:Icon tools.svg 18:46 Service C, Athens
3 June File:Icon tools.svg 8:00 Service D, Athens
SS8 After 8:57 Mandra 1 12.60 km
SS9 After 9:50 Kineta 1 37.33 km
SS10 After 11:13 Psatha 1 17.41 km
File:Icon tools.svg 12:51 Service E, Athens
SS11 After 14:08 Mandra 2 12.60 km
SS12 After 15:01 Kineta 2 37.33 km
SS13 After 16:24 Psatha 2 17.41 km
File:Icon tools.svg 17:44 Service F, Athens
4 June File:Icon tools.svg 6:40 Service G, Athens
SS14 After 7:47 Avlonas 1 23.90 km
SS15 After 8:55 Agia Sotira 1 24.77 km
File:Icon tools.svg 10:08 Service H, Athens
SS16 After 11:35 Avlonas 2 23.90 km
SS17 After 12:43 Agia Sotira 2 24.77 km
File:Icon tools.svg 13:46 Service I, Athens
SS18 After 14:15 Athens Olympic Stadium 2 2.80 km
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Report

Overall

Summary

Petter Solberg would win the shakedown on thursday, beginning what would be his 100th world rally.[5] But it would be Loeb that won the first stage of the rally, a short super special stage inside of the Olympic Stadium in Athens. Gronholn would end up second, while shakedown winner Solberg would end up thirteenth on the opening day.[6]

Friday would be a display of absolute dominance by Gronholm, who won every single stage of the day. Petter Solberg would manage to end the day ahead of Loeb despite experiencing three punctures in the morning. Petter's brother Henning would suffer a tyre blow-out at high speed, dropping him to seventh overall, while Chris Atkinson was struck with a front differential issue, rendering his morning ruined.[7] The afternoon section of the leg would be less chaotic, with Hirvonen ending the day in fourth ahead of the surprisingly quick Duval. Gardemeister would drop to eighth after hitting a rock and experiencing shoulder pain in stage seven, handing sixth to Stohl.[8]

Saturday would entail a closer battle between Gronholm and Loeb; Gronholm would win four of the day's six stages, but crucially, Loeb would win the longest stage of the rally twice, limiting the damage and finishing the day within two minutes of the leader. Despite being second, a puncture resulting in heavy damage in the last stage of the day raised concerns that Loeb wouldn't be able to continue.[9][10] Henning Solberg would lose much of his braking power, but still set a competitive third fastest time in stage ten. Petter Solberg, meanwhile, would be forced to retire after crashing on the road section between stages twelve and thirteen. This would promote Hirvonen to third overall.[11]

On Sunday, Gronholm would extend his lead over Loeb despite overall driving cautiously to avoid a retirement on the rough Greek stages. It would be a recovering Petter Solberg who won all but the super special stage on the day, recovering to an impressive seventh after restarting in ninth. Loeb would not risk anything, continuing to fall behind Gronholm in order to protect his second place, which he successfully maintained. The tight battle for fourth would be interrupted by Stohl retiring after a roll and Sordo losing a minute with an engine issue.[12] This would hand fourth in the rally to Gardemeister. Henning Solberg held fifth by under a second from the charging Sordo. After an impressive start, Duval would retire on Saturday to finish thirteenth overall.[13]

Classification

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Event Class
1 1 3 Template:Flagicon Marcus Gronholm Template:Flagicon Timo Rautiainen Template:Flagicon BP Ford World Rally Team Ford Focus RS WRC 06 3:56:26.8 0.0 10
2 2 1 Template:Flagicon Sebastien Loeb Template:Flagicon Daniel Elena Template:Flagicon Kronos Citroën World Rally Team Citroën Xsara WRC 3:58:53.6 +2:26.8 8
3 3 4 Template:Flagicon Mikko Hirvonen Template:Flagicon Jarmo Lehtinen Template:Flagicon BP Ford World Rally Team Ford Focus RS WRC 06 4:00:10.6 +3:43.8 6
4 4 16 Template:Flagicon Toni Gardemeister Template:Flagicon Jakke Honkanen Template:Flagicon Astra Racing Citroën Xsara WRC 4:00:47.6 +4:20.8 5
5 5 8 Template:Flagicon Henning Solberg Template:Flagicon Cato Menkerud Template:Flagicon OMV Peugeot Norway World Rally Team Peugeot 307 WRC 4:01:22.4 +4:55.6 4
6 6 14 Template:Flagicon Dani Sordo Template:Flagicon Marc Martí Template:Flagicon Kronos Racing Citroën Xsara WRC 4:01:23.2 +4:56.4 3
7 7 5 Template:Flagicon Petter Solberg Template:Flagicon Phil Mills Template:Flagicon Subaru World Rally Team Impreza WRC 2006 4:02:01.2 +5:34.4 2
8 8 2 Template:Flagicon Xavier Pons Template:Flagicon Carlos del Barrio Template:Flagicon Kronos Citroën World Rally Team Citroën Xsara WRC 4:04:45.8 +8:19.0 1
9 9 20 Template:Flagicon Jussi Välimäki Template:Flagicon Jarkko Kalliolepo Template:Flagicon MMSP LTD Mitsubishi Lancer WRC 05 4:07:55.5 +11:28.7 0
10 10 9 Template:Flagicon Matthew Wilson Template:Flagicon Michael Orr Template:Flagicon Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team Ford Focus RS WRC 06 4:09:57.6 +13:30.8 0
11 11 6 Template:Flagicon Chris Atkinson Template:Flagicon Glenn Macneall Template:Flagicon Subaru World Rally Team Impreza WRC 2006 4:10:28.6 +14:01.8 0
12 12 11 Template:Flagicon Harri Rovanperä Template:Flagicon Risto Pietiläinen Template:Flagicon Red Bull Škoda Team Škoda Fabia WRC 4:11:02.4 +14:35.6 0
13 13 18 Template:Flagicon François Duval Template:Flagicon Patrick Pivato Template:Flagicon First Motorsport Škoda Škoda Fabia WRC 4:14:31.2 +18:04.4 0
14 14 12 Template:Flagicon Andreas Aigner Template:Flagicon Klaus Wicha Template:Flagicon Red Bull Škoda Team Škoda Fabia WRC 4:17:17.7 +20:50.9 0
15 15 19 Template:Flagicon Armodios Vovos Template:Flagicon "El-Em" Template:Flagicon Armodios Vovos Subaru Impreza S11 WRC 05 4:23:17.1 +26:50.3 0
16 16 17 Template:Flagicon Jan Kopecký Template:Flagicon Filip Schovánek Template:Flagicon Czech RT Škoda Kopecký Škoda Fabia WRC 4:24:45.6 +28:18.8 0
26 17 10 Template:Flagicon Kosti Katajamäki Template:Flagicon Timo Alanne Template:Flagicon Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team Ford Focus RS WRC 06 4:44:03.2 +47:36.4 0
49 18 96 Template:Flagicon Dionissis Gazetas Template:Flagicon Athanasios Papageorgiou Template:Flagicon Dionissis Gazetas Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII 5:38:38.9 +1:42:12.1 0
55 19 78 Template:Flagicon "Kirkos Junior" Template:Flagicon Ioannis Sengos Template:Flagicon "Kirkos Junior" Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII 5:55:23.1 +1:58:56.3 0
Retired SS14 7 Template:Flagicon Manfred Stohl Template:Flagicon Ilka Minor Template:Flagicon OMV Peugeot Norway World Rally Team Peugeot 307 WRC Accident 0
Retired SS11 67 Template:Flagicon Manos Stefanis Template:Flagicon Konstantinos Stafanis Template:Flagicon Manos Stefanis Ford Focus WRC 02 Fire 0
Retired SS8 66 Template:Flagicon Konstantinos Apostolou Template:Flagicon Kriadis Mihalis Template:Flagicon Konstantinos Apostolou Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI Axle 0

Special Stages

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

Day Stage Time Name Length (km) Winner Time Rally leader
1
(1/2 June)
SS1 18:00 Athens Olympic Stadium 1 2.79 Template:Flagicon Sébastien Loeb 2:21.4 Template:Flagicon Sébastien Loeb
SS2 8:38 Imittos 1 11.43 Template:Flagicon Marcus Grönholm 7:03.3 Template:Flagicon Marcus Grönholm
SS3 9:56 Skourta 1 23.79 Template:Flagicon Marcus Grönholm 14:40.1
SS4 11:14 Thiva 1 23.76 Template:Flagicon Marcus Grönholm 17:16.9
SS5 14:20 Imittos 2 11.43 Template:Flagicon Marcus Grönholm 6:58.3
SS6 15:38 Skourta 2 23.79 Template:Flagicon Marcus Grönholm 14:29.6
SS7 16:56 Thiva 2 23.76 Template:Flagicon Marcus Grönholm 16:54.1
2
(3 June)
SS8 8:57 Mandra 1 12.6 Template:Flagicon Marcus Grönholm 8:50.7
SS9 9:50 Kineta 1 37.33 Template:Flagicon Sébastien Loeb 25:39.1
SS10 11:13 Psatha 1 17.4 Template:Flagicon Marcus Grönholm 11:21.3
SS11 14:08 Mandra 2 12.6 Template:Flagicon Marcus Grönholm 8:43.1
SS12 15:01 Kineta 2 37.33 Template:Flagicon Sébastien Loeb 25:20.2
SS13 16:24 Psatha 2 17.4 Template:Flagicon Marcus Grönholm 11:23.6
3
(4 June)
SS14 7:47 Avlonas 1 23.89 Template:Flagicon Petter Solberg 14:07.2
SS15 8:55 Agia Sotira 1 24.77 Template:Flagicon Petter Solberg 17:02.0
SS16 11:35 Avlonas 2 23.89 Template:Flagicon Petter Solberg 14:00.6
SS17 12:43 Agia Sotira 2 24.77 Template:Flagicon Petter Solberg 16:49.6
SS18 14:15 Athens Olympic Stadium 2 2.79 Template:Flagicon Marcus Grönholm 2:21.7

Championship Standings

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Move Driver Points Move Manufacturer Points
1 File:1rightarrow blue.svg Template:Flagicon Sébastien Loeb 74 File:1rightarrow blue.svg Template:Flagicon Kronos Citroën World Rally Team 96
2 File:1rightarrow blue.svg Template:Flagicon Marcus Gronholm 45 File:1rightarrow blue.svg Template:Flagicon BP Ford World Rally Team 81
3 File:1rightarrow blue.svg Template:Flagicon Dani Sordo 33 File:1rightarrow blue.svg Template:Flagicon Subaru World Rally Team 63
4 File:1uparrow green.svg 2 Template:Flagicon Mikko Hirvonen 21 File:1rightarrow blue.svg Template:Flagicon OMV Peugeot Norway World Rally Team 41
5 File:1downarrow red.svg 1 Template:Flagicon Manfred Stohl 20 File:1rightarrow blue.svg Template:Flagicon Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team 17

Production WRC

Classification

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Event Class
17 1 39 Template:Flagicon Nasser Al-Attiyah Template:Flagicon Chris Patterson Template:Flagicon QMMF Subaru Impreza WRX STI 4:28:43.3 0.0 10
18 2 35 Template:Flagicon Gabriel Pozzo Template:Flagicon Daniel Stillo Template:Flagicon Tango Rally Team Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 4:28:55.3 +12.0 8
19 3 45 Template:Flagicon Aki Teiskonen Template:Flagicon Miika Teiskonen Template:Flagicon Syms Rally Team Subaru Impreza WRX STI 3:46:19.0 +1:01.2 6
20 4 36 Template:Flagicon Mirco Baldacci Template:Flagicon Giovanni Agnese Template:Flagicon Mitsubishi Paris West Team Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 4:32:37.4 +3:54.1 5
21 5 31 Template:Flagicon Toshihiro Arai Template:Flagicon Tony Sircombe Template:Flagicon Subaru Team Arai Subaru Impreza WRX STI 4:33:37.7 +5:54.4 4
22 6 37 Template:Flagicon Jari-Matti Latvala Template:Flagicon Miikka Anttila Template:Flagicon Motoring Club Subaru Impreza WRX STI 4:36:11.2 +7:27.9 3
24 7 32 Template:Flagicon Marcos Ligato Template:Flagicon Rubén García Template:Flagicon Tango Rally Team Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 4:41:48.2 +13:04.9 2
27 8 40 Template:Flagicon Stefano Marrini Template:Flagicon Sandroni Tiziana Template:Flagicon Errani Team Group Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 4:44:58.3 +16:15.0 1
29 9 42 Template:Flagicon Sergey Uspenskiy Template:Flagicon Dmitriy Eremeev Template:Flagicon Subaru Rally Team Russia Subaru Impreza WRX STI 4:49:35.8 +20:52.5 0
30 10 34 Template:Flagicon Sebastián Beltran Template:Flagicon Ricardo Rojas Template:Flagicon Tango Rally Team Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 4:52:02.5 +23:19.2 0
32 11 46 Template:Flagicon Nigel Heath Template:Flagicon Steve Lancaster Template:Flagicon PSM Motorsport Subaru Impreza WRX STI 4:58:07.0 +29:23.7 0
33 12 41 Template:Flagicon Takuma Kamada Template:Flagicon Hakaru Ichino Template:Flagicon Subaru Team Quasys Subaru Impreza WRX STI 5:03:11.2 +34:27.9 0
37 13 43 Template:Flagicon Andrej Jereb Template:Flagicon Miran Kacin Template:Flagicon OMV CEE World Rally Team Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 5:10:08.6 +41:25.3 0
44 14 60 Template:Flagicon Dimitris Nassoulas Template:Flagicon Mihalis Patrikoussis Template:Flagicon Eko Racing Team Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII 5:21:50.1 +53:06.8 0
Retired SS4 38 Template:Flagicon Leszek Kuzaj Template:Flagicon Maciej Szczepaniak Template:Flagicon Syms Rally Team Subaru Impreza WRX STI Accident 0

Championship Standings

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Move Driver Points
1 File:1rightarrow blue.svg Template:Flagicon Nasser Al-Attiyah 34
2 File:1uparrow green.svg 1 Template:Flagicon Mirco Baldacci 17
3 File:1uparrow green.svg 1 Template:Flagicon Toshihiro Arai 15
4 File:1downarrow red.svg 2 Template:Flagicon Leszek Kuzaj 13
5 File:1rightarrow blue.svg Template:Flagicon Fumio Nutahara 10

References

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