2014 ADAC Rallye Deutschland 32. Rallye Deutschland | |||
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Round 9 of the 2014 World Rally Championship season
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Host country | Germany | ||
Rally base | Trier, Germany | ||
Dates run | August 22 – August 24, 2014 | ||
Stages | 18 (324.31 km; 201.52 miles) | ||
Stage surface | Tarmac | ||
Statistics | |||
Crews | 85 at start, 63 at finish | ||
Overall results | |||
Overall winner | Thierry Neuville Nicolas Gilsoul Hyundai Shell World Rally Team |
The 2014 ADAC Rallye Deutschland was the ninth round of the 2014 World Rally Championship season. The event was based in Trier, Germany, and started on 22 August and finished on 24 August after eighteen special stages, totaling 324.3 competitive kilometres.
Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville earned his first ever World Rally Championship victory of his career. It was also the first rally of the season not to be won by either the Volkswagen of Sébastien Ogier or Jari-Matti Latvala as they had both crashed out during the event. It was the first non-VW victory since the previous year's German Rally won by Citroën's Dani Sordo, ending VW's streak of twelve consecutive WRC rally victories dating back to the 2013 Rally Australia. It was also Hyundai World Rally Team's first victory in the WRC having returned to the sport in 2014 after an eleven-year absence. Neuville became only the second Belgian rally driver to win a WRC event; the other being François Duval when he won the 2005 Rally Australia.