The 2013 Rally Sweden was a

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event for

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that was held over four days between 7 and 10 February, which marked the sixty-first running of the

Rally Sweden The Rally Sweden ( sv, Svenska rallyt), formerly the International Swedish Rally, and later the Uddeholm Swedish Rally, is an automobile rally competition held in February in Värmland, Sweden and relocated to Umeå in 2022. First held in 1950, ...

. The rally was based in the town of Karlstad and ran along the border of

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. The rally itself was contested over twenty-two special stages, covering a total of in competitive stages. The rally was the second round of the 2013 World Rally Championship season, and marked the fortieth anniversary of the

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. Twenty World Rally Car crews were entered in the event, including the defending World Drivers' Champion

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Entry list

Twenty

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s were entered into the event, as were thirteen entries in the newly formed WRC-2 championship for cars built to

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and Super 2000 regulations. There were no WRC-3 entries.

Itinerary

The itinerary for the 2013 rally sees a mixture of the same stages from

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. The first stage will be a Super Special Stage held at the rally base in Karlstad. WRC fans had the chance to vote on the Rally Sweden

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page as to who they wanted to see starting the rally head-to-head. The majority of fans voted for French

Sébastien Ogier Sébastien Ogier (born 17 December 1983) is a French rally driver, competing for the Toyota Gazoo Racing Team in the World Rally Championship (WRC), who is teamed with the co-driver Julien Ingrassia. He has won the World Rally Drivers' Champion ...

who are bitter rivals from when Ogier was the number two driver at Citroën. Other 'dream heats' include Finns

Mikko Hirvonen Mikko Hirvonen (born 31 July 1980) is a Finnish former rally driver, and a current Rally-Raid driver, who drove in the World Rally Championship. He placed third in the drivers' championship and helped Ford to the manufacturers' title in both 2 ...

and

Jari-Matti Latvala Jari-Matti Latvala (born 3 April 1985) is a Finnish rally driver who has competed in the World Rally Championship (WRC). His co-driver for most of his career was Miikka Anttila, who co-drove for Latvala between the 2003 Rallye Deutschland and 2019 ...

going head-to-head as well as two young Scandinavian drivers

Mads Østberg Mads Østberg (born 11 October 1987) is a Norwegian rally driver. His co-driver is Torstein Eriksen. Career Østberg competed in his first rally in 2004. His first World Rally Championship event was the 2006 Swedish Rally, in which he finishe ...

Pontus Tidemand Pontus Johan Tidemand (born 10 December 1990) is a Swedish rally and rallycross driver. He is the 2017 WRC-2 champion and a previous M-Sport and Škoda Motorsport driver. Pontus is the son of Swedish rally driver Tomas Tidemand and ex-rally c ...

. The first full day of the rally will be made up of seven special stages to the north of the rally base, mostly taking place in the region of

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. Stages four and seven take place near

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. The day ends with the second and final running of the Karlstad Super Special Stage. Day two will have eight stages across the region of Hagfors. Day three starts with the longest stage of the rally which is the stage of Mitandersfors near the region of Torsby and crosses the border into

. The next four stages take place near the Norwegian town of

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while the final stage of the day goes back to Sweden, taking place in Torsby which is also the Power Stage.

In detail

Results

Event standings

Notable retirements

Special stages

Notes: * — The Mitandersfors stage started in Sweden and finished in

References

External links

Rally official website

The official website of the World Rally Championship

Results
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