2006 Rally Australia

2006 Rally Australia 19th Telstra Rally Australia
Round 14 of the 2006 World Rally Championship ← Previous event Next event →
Dani Sordo during SS19.
Dates run	26 October – 29 2006
Stages	26
Stage surface	Gravel
Statistics
Crews	56 at start, 45 at finish
Overall results
Overall winner	Mikko Hirvonen BP Ford World Rally Team

The 2006 Telstra Rally Australia was the fourteenth round of the 2006 World Rally Championship season. It took place between 26 and 29 October 2006.

Report

Ford's Mikko Hirvonen won the rally, taking his first victory of his career. His teammate Marcus Grönholm was only the Fifth to mathematically give the world championship to Sébastien Loeb, who was out of this race due to injury. Grönholm hit a rock, resulting in him losing eleven minutes and falling to 55th place. In order to maintain his chances for the championship, Grönholm had to rise to at least third place, but he was only able to collect four points, so Loeb, who witnessed the rally from home, celebrated the championship with two more races left.

Results

Pos.	Driver	Co-driver	Car	Time	Difference	Points
WRC
1	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen	Ford Focus RS WRC 06	3:15:11.8	0.0	10
2	Petter Solberg	Cato Menkerud	Subaru Impreza WRC 06	3:15:48.9	37.1	8
3	Manfred Stohl	Ilka Minor	Peugeot 307 WRC	3:19:10.4	3:58.6	6
4	Xavier Pons	Carlos Del Barrio	Citroën Xsara WRC	3:19:57.2	4:45.4	5
5	Marcus Grönholm	Timo Rautiainen	Ford Focus RS WRC 06	3:27:35.6	12:23.8	4
6	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	3:32:21.0	17:09.2	3
7	Mirco Baldacci	Giovanni Agnese	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	3:32:54.7	17:42.9	2
8	Dean Herridge	William Hayes	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	3:33:33.8	18:22.0	1
PWRC
1.	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	3:32:21.0	0.0	10
2.	Mirco Baldacci	Giovanni Agnese	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	3:32:54.7	33.7	8
3.	Dean Herridge	William Hayes	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	3:33:33.8	1:12.8	6
4.	Aki Teiskonen	Miika Teiskonen	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	3:42:31.1	10:10.1	5
5.	Sergey Uspenskiy	Dmitriy Yeremeyev	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	3:47:00.5	14:39.5	4
6.	Stefano Marrini	Tiziana Sandroni	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	3:51:18.5	18:57.5	3
7.	Toshi Arai	Daniel Barritt	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	4:00:12.6	27:51.6	2

Special Stages

All dates and times are AWST (UTC+8).

Day	Stage	Time	Name	Length (km)	Winner	Time	Rally leader
1 (26/27 Oct)	SS1	19:12	Perth City Super 1	2.00	Marcus Grönholm	1:21.1	Marcus Grönholm
	SS2	19:21	Perth City Super 2	2.00	Marcus Grönholm	1:20.7
	SS3	09:23	Murray North 1	15.92	Chris Atkinson	8:55.4	Chris Atkinson
	SS4	09:56	Murray South 1	20.12	Chris Atkinson	11:34.9
	SS5	10:36	Holyoake	3.13	Chris Atkinson	1:53.4
	SS6	11:49	Murray North 2	15.92	Petter Solberg	8:50.0	Mikko Hirvonen
	SS7	12:22	Murray South 2	20.12	Petter Solberg	11:31.1	Petter Solberg
	SS8	16:32	Beraking 1	22.84	Marcus Grönholm	13:05.7
	SS9	17:18	Flynns 1	18.78	Marcus Grönholm	11:07.2	Mikko Hirvonen
	SS10	19:25	Perth City Super 3	2.00	Marcus Grönholm	1:22.6
	SS11	19:34	Perth City Super 4	2.00	Xavier Pons	1:22.2
2 (28 Oct)	SS12	09:20	Bannister North 1	17.70	Mikko Hirvonen	8:34.7
	SS13	09:52	Bannister Central 1	17.85	Mikko Hirvonen	9:20.8
	SS14	10:36	Bannister Loop	3.61	Marcus Grönholm	1:57.5
	SS15	11:55	Bannister North 2	17.70	Marcus Grönholm	8:30.5
	SS16	12:27	Bannister Central 2	17.85	Mikko Hirvonen	9:15.0
	SS17	16:32	Beraking 2	22.84	Petter Solberg	12:34.5
	SS18	17:18	Flynns 2	18.78	Marcus Grönholm	10:48.1
	SS19	19:25	Perth City Super 5	2.00	Marcus Grönholm	1:21.8
	SS20	19:34	Perth City Super 6	2.00	Marcus Grönholm	1:21.5
3 (29 Oct)	SS21	07:03	Atkins 1	4.42	Petter Solberg	3:06.1
	SS22	07:33	Helena North 1	29.93	Mikko Hirvonen	17:06.0
	SS23	08:14	Helena South 1	17.30	Mikko Hirvonen	8:57.8
	SS24	11:03	Atkins 2	4.42	Petter Solberg	3:01.3
	SS25	11:33	Helena North 2	29.93	Petter Solberg	16:59.1
	SS26	12:14	Helena South 2	17.30	Petter Solberg	8:55.9

External links

• Results at eWRC.com
• Results at Jonkka's World Rally Archive