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WRC Finland: Ford team celebrates home win
publication date: Aug 2, 2010
 | BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team drivers
Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila won a thrilling Rally Finland to
earn a place in the history books.
The Finns won this
eighth round of the FIA World Rally Championship for the first time by
10.1sec in a Ford Focus RS World Rally Car, joining a long list of
Finnish greats who have triumphed in their home event.
Latvala and
Anttila were mobbed by their fellow countrymen as they took to the
podium in Jyväskylä. Twenty-five-year-old Latvala, already
the youngest driver to win a world rally, became the youngest winner of
Rally Finland since the WRC started in 1973. |  | It was Ford's second consecutive victory in the legendary
event following the success of Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen in
2009, and the manufacturer's fourth win in five years.
It was a tremendous result too for Citroen whose C4 cars finished 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th.
The
championship returns to asphalt next month when drivers tackle vineyard
tracks and military roads in Rallye Deutschland, based in Trier on 19 -
22 August.
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Final positions
1. J-M Latvala/M Anttila FIN Ford Focus RS 2hr 31min 29.6sec
2. S Ogier/J Ingrassia FRA Citroen C4 2hr 31min 39.7sec
3. S Loeb/D Elena FRA Citroen C4 2hr 31min 55.6sec
4. P Solberg/C Patterson NOR Citroen C4 2hr 32min 00.3sec
5. D Sordo/M Marti ESP Citroen C4 2hr 33min 14.6sec
6. M Wilson/S Martin GBR Ford Focus RS 2hr 37min 13.3sec
7. M Østberg/J Andersson NOR Subaru Impreza 2hr 37min 20.4sec
8. J Kankkunen/J Repo FIN Ford Focus RS 2hr 39min 18.6sec
9. J Hänninen/M Markkula FIN Skoda Fabia 2hr 40min 34.6sec
10 P-G Andersson/A Fredriksson SWE Skoda Fabia 2hr 41min 45.3sec
| WRC Drivers | | | Manufacturers | | | 1. S Loeb | 166pts | | 1. Citroen Total | 265pts | 2. S Ogier
| 118pts | | 2. BP Ford Abu Dhabi | 210pts | 3. J-M Latvala
| 105pts | | 3. Citroen Junior
| 155pts | 4. P Solberg
| 90pts | | 4. Stobart M-Sport Ford
| 108pts | | 5. M Hirvonen | 86pts | | 5. Munchi's Ford
| 40pts |
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