Due to the high altitude, engines struggle to breathe in the thin air, causing a twenty percent reduction in their output.

[2] Sébastien Loeb took his 55th career rally victory, leading from the end of the eleventh stage onwards.

Solberg's gain was Sébastien Ogier's loss, as the Citroën junior driver just missed out on equalling his best career result in the World Rally Championship.

In the end, the Spanish driver took victory by just seventeen seconds, as both finished inside the overall top ten, in eighth and ninth places respectively.

Michał Kościuszko was third, but over half an hour behind Pons and Prokop, with Eyvind Brynildsen and Albert Llovera rounding out the class finishers.