2009 Rally d'Italia Sardegna
| 2009 Rally d'Italia Sardegna 6º Rally d'Italia Sardegna |
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Round 6 of the 2009 World Rally Championship
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| Host country |
 Italy |
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| Dates run | May 22 – 24, 2009 | ||
| Stages | 17 | ||
| Stage surface | Gravel with some Tarmac | ||
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| Overall winner |
 Jari-Matti Latvala BP Ford Abu Dhabi WRT
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| Crews | 59 at start, 39 at finish | ||
The 2009 Rally d'Italia Sardegna was the sixth running of the Rally d'Italia Sardegna and the sixth round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season. The rally consisted of 17 special stages.
This year's Rally d'Italia Sardegna has new reforms of this rally, with new stages at the first day & the last day, mostly these new stages are gravel with some section of tarmac that make it difficult for drivers especially the grip of the tyres.
Finns Jari-Matti Latvala and Mikko Hirvonen took a double win for the Ford factory team. Latvala's win was his career second, after becoming the youngest-ever driver to win a world rally at the 2008 Swedish Rally. Norwegian privateer Petter Solberg took the final podium spot.
Several front-runners ran into problems on stage eleven. Citroën's defending world champion Sébastien Loeb lost over a minute and dropped from third to fourth due to a puncture. His fifth-placed teammate Dani Sordo lost even more time and positions with a turbo problem. Eighth-placed Stobart driver Henning Solberg's day ended after he went off the road and broke his Ford Focus WRC's right-hand front suspension, and Citroën Junior Team's Conrad Rautenbach retired after the stage from tenth place with a damper failure. The rally leader Jari-Matti Latvala of Ford also spun during the stage, but escaped without damage.
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