2008 Rally Catalunya

Template:Template other The 2008 Rally Catalunya, officially 44è Rally RACC Catalunya - Costa Daurada, was the 44th Rally Catalunya and the 12th round of the 2008 World Rally Championship season. The rally took place during October 2–5, 2008 and consisted of 18 special stages.

The rally was won by Citroën Total World Rally Team's Sébastien Loeb ahead of his teammate Dani Sordo. This was Citroën's third double win in a row, after previous one-two finishes in Germany and New Zealand. BP Ford World Rally Team's Mikko Hirvonen and François Duval took comfortable third and fourth positions, although only battled with each other and never managed to challenge the Citroëns. Duval eased off in one stage to let Hirvonen, who continued his fight for the drivers' title with Loeb, to take the third place and one extra point.

Subaru World Rally Team's Petter Solberg fought for fifth place with Urmo Aava until the penultimate stage, when Aava retired after making a mistake and breaking his Citroën C4 WRC's suspension. The battle for sixth place went down to the wire, with Stobart M-Sport Ford's Jari-Matti Latvala edging out Subaru's Chris Atkinson by 1.1 seconds. Andreas Mikkelsen drove his privateer Ford Focus RS WRC 07 to eighth place, taking the second points finish of his career.

Results

Pos.	Driver	Co-driver	Car	Time	Difference	Points
WRC
1.	Template:Flagicon Sébastien Loeb	Template:Flagicon Daniel Elena	Citroën C4 WRC	3:21:17.4	0.0	10
2.	Template:Flagicon Dani Sordo	Template:Flagicon Marc Marti	Citroën C4 WRC	3:21:42.3	24.9	8
3.	Template:Flagicon Mikko Hirvonen	Template:Flagicon Jarmo Lehtinen	Ford Focus RS WRC 07	3:22:19.9	1:02.5	6
4.	Template:Flagicon François Duval	Template:Flagicon Patrick Pivato	Ford Focus RS WRC 07	3:22:28.2	1:10.8	5
5.	Template:Flagicon Petter Solberg	Template:Flagicon Phil Mills	Subaru Impreza WRC 2008	3:24:44.8	3:27.4	4
6.	Template:Flagicon Jari-Matti Latvala	Template:Flagicon Miikka Anttila	Ford Focus RS WRC 07	3:25:21.2	4:03.8	3
7.	Template:Flagicon Chris Atkinson	Template:Flagicon Stéphane Prévot	Subaru Impreza WRC 2008	3:25:22.3	4:04.9	2
8.	Template:Flagicon Andreas Mikkelsen	Template:Flagicon Ola Floene	Ford Focus RS WRC 07	3:26:37.0	5:19.6	1

Championship standings after the event

Drivers' championship

Pos Driver MON Template:Flagicon SWE Template:Flagicon MEX Template:Flagicon ARG Template:Flagicon JOR Template:Flagicon ITA Template:Flagicon GRC Template:Flagicon TUR Template:Flagicon FIN Template:Flagicon GER Template:Flagicon NZL Template:Flagicon ESP Template:Flagicon FRA Template:Flagicon JPN Template:Flagicon GBR Template:Flagicon  Pts  1 Template:Flagicon Sébastien Loeb 1 Ret. 1 1 10 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 96 2 Template:Flagicon Mikko Hirvonen 2 2 4 5 1 2 3 1 2 4 3 3 84 3 Template:Flagicon Dani Sordo 11 6 17 3 2 5 5 4 4 2 2 2 59 4 Template:Flagicon Chris Atkinson 3 21 2 2 3 6 Ret. 13 3 6 Ret. 7 42 5 Template:Flagicon Jari-Matti Latvala 12 1 3 15 7 3 7 2 39 9 Ret. 6 37 6 Template:Flagicon Petter Solberg 5 4 12 Ret. Ret. 10 2 6 6 5 4 5 36 7 Template:Flagicon Henning Solberg 9 13 5 Ret. 4 7 8 5 5 7 9 11 22 8 Template:Flagicon Gigi Galli 6 3 Ret. 7 8 4 Ret. Ret. Ret. Ret. Inj. Inj. 17 9 Template:Flagicon François Duval 4 3 Ret. 4 16 10 Template:Flagicon Matthew Wilson 10 Ret. 6 Ret. 5 12 6 7 9 12 17 9 12 11 Template:Flagicon Urmo Aava 18 Ret. 8 4 Ret. 16 8 5 35 11 12 Template:Flagicon Federico Villagra 7 6 6 14 13 9 Ret. 8 12 9 13 Template:Flagicon Conrad Rautenbach Ret. 16 16 4 26 13 10 8 10 10 Ret. Ret. 6 14 Template:Flagicon Andreas Mikkelsen 5 Ret. 19 12 11 8 5 15 Template:Flagicon Toni Gardemeister Ret. 7 Ret. Ret. Ret. Ret. 9 Ret. 8 10 7 13 5 16 Template:Flagicon Per-Gunnar Andersson 8 Ret. Ret. 24 Ret. 9 11 Ret. Ret. 15 6 32 4 17 Template:Flagicon Jean-Marie Cuoq 7 2 Template:Flagicon Matti Rantanen 7 19 Template:Flagicon Juho Hänninen 8 21 13 14 29 1 Template:Flagicon Sébastien Ogier 8 11 22 36 19 Ret. Template:Flagicon Andreas Aigner 31 8 14 11 Ret. Ret. Pos Driver MON Template:Flagicon SWE Template:Flagicon MEX Template:Flagicon ARG Template:Flagicon JOR Template:Flagicon ITA Template:Flagicon GRC Template:Flagicon TUR Template:Flagicon FIN Template:Flagicon GER Template:Flagicon NZL Template:Flagicon ESP Template:Flagicon FRA Template:Flagicon JPN Template:Flagicon GBR Template:Flagicon Pts

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Excluded (EX) Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Cancelled (C) Blank Withdrew entry from the event (WD)

Manufacturers' championship

Rank	Team	Event															Total points
		MON Template:Flagicon	SWE Template:Flagicon	MEX Template:Flagicon	ARG Template:Flagicon	JOR Template:Flagicon	ITA Template:Flagicon	GRC Template:Flagicon	TUR Template:Flagicon	FIN Template:Flagicon	GER Template:Flagicon	NZL Template:Flagicon	ESP Template:Flagicon	FRA Template:Flagicon	JPN Template:Flagicon	GBR Template:Flagicon
1	Template:Flagicon Citroën Total World Rally Team	11	4	10	16	9	14	15	11	15	18	18	18	-	-	-	159
2	Template:Flagicon BP Ford World Rally Team	8	18	11	7	13	14	10	18	9	7	6	11	-	-	-	132
3	Template:Flagicon Subaru World Rally Team	10	6	9	8	6	3	8	3	9	7	5	6	-	-	-	80
4	Template:Flagicon Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team	8	8	3	3	7	5	3	4	4	6	0	4	-	-	-	55
5	Template:Flagicon Munchi's Ford World Rally Team	0	0	6	4	4	2	0	3	0	0	3	0	-	-	-	22
6	Template:Flagicon Suzuki World Rally Team	2	3	0	1	0	1	3	0	2	1	7	0	-	-	-	20

External links

• Standings at eWRC