The 2011 Rally Catalunya, formally 47è Rally RACC Catalunya – Costa Daurada and the denoted RACC Rally de España, was the twelfth round of the

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. The rally took place over 21–23 October, and was based in

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. The rally was also the eighth and final round of the

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, and the sixth round of the

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. The rally was won by championship leader

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, who took his fifth victory of the season, and the 67th of his career after taking the lead at the end of the first day's running and held on to extend his championship lead ahead of the final round in

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. In doing so, he also secured a seventh manufacturers' title for

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. Loeb's title rival

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finished second after team-mate

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, who finished third, incurred a two-minute time penalty in order to gain as many points as possible for Hirvonen's title challenge. In the SWRC,

Juho Hänninen Juho Ville Matias Hänninen (born 25 July 1981) is a Finnish rally driver. He is the 2010 Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC) champion and 2011 Super 2000 World Rally Championship (S-WRC) champion with co-driver Mikko Markkula driving a works ...

finished at the head of the class in tenth overall, and as a result, secured the SWRC title, ahead of

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. In the PWRC,

Patrik Flodin Patrik Flodin (born 16 August 1984) is a rally driver from Sweden. Flodin won the Swedish Championship in 2006. In 2009, Flodin contests in the Production World Rally Championship The FIA Production World Rally Championship, or PWRC, was a c ...

just fended off a challenge from

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in the late stages of the rally, with Flodin coming out on top by just two seconds.

Results

Event standings

Special stages

Power Stage

The "Power stage" was a live, televised stage at the end of the rally, held near

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References

External links

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