2011 Rally de Portugal

2011 Rally de Portugal
*Vodafone Rally de Portugal*
2011 Rally de Portugal; Vodafone Rally de Portugal
Round 3 of the 2011 World Rally Championship
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	Sébastien Loeb driving a Citroën DS3 WRC
Host country	Portugal
Rally base	Faro, Portugal
Dates run	March 24 – 27 2011
Stages	17 (385.37 km; 239.46 miles)
Stage surface	Gravel
Overall distance	1,359.71 km (844.88 miles)
Statistics
Crews	70 at start, 38 at finish
Overall results
Overall winner	Sébastien Ogier; Citroën World Rally Team

The 2011 Rally de Portugal was the third round of the 2011 World Rally Championship season. It was the season's first European event held on gravel roads. The rally took place over 24–27 March, beginning with a super special stage in the city of Lisbon. The rally was also the second round of the Production World Rally Championship and the inaugural event of the WRC Academy.

Sébastien Ogier won the event for the second consecutive year, to take his third WRC victory.^[2] Ogier had taken the lead midway through the second leg of the rally and held on to his lead to win by 31.8 seconds from teammate Sébastien Loeb, with Ford's Jari-Matti Latvala rounding out the podium in third place. Championship leader Mikko Hirvonen ended the rally in fourth place, which coupled with power stage points for Loeb, created a tie between the two at the head of the drivers' championship.^[3]

In the support classes, Hayden Paddon won the PWRC class by a comfortable margin of over seven minutes,^[4] while Egon Kaur won the inaugural WRC Academy event by a more marginal sixteen seconds.^[5]

Results

Event standings

Pos.	Driver	Co-driver	Car	Time	Difference	Points
Overall
1.	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Citroën DS3 WRC	4:10:53.4	0.0	26
2.	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën DS3 WRC	4:11:25.2	31.8	21
3.	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	4:14:15.5	3:22.1	17
4.	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	4:17:09.7	6:16.3	12
5.	Matthew Wilson	Scott Martin	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	4:18:41.9	7:48.5	10
6.	Petter Solberg	Chris Patterson	Citroën DS3 WRC	4:21:10.8	10:17.4	8
7.	Kimi Räikkönen	Kaj Lindström	Citroën DS3 WRC	4:21:47.5	10:54.1	6
8.	Federico Villagra	Jorge Pérez Companc	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	4:22:32.2	11:38.8	4
9.	Henning Solberg	Ilka Minor	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	4:25:09.8	14:16.4	2
10.	Dennis Kuipers	Frédéric Miclotte	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	4:28:48.0	17:54.6	1
PWRC
1. (11.)	Hayden Paddon	John Kennard	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	4:33:33.4	0.0	25
2. (15.)	Jukka Ketomäki	Kai Risberg	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X	4:41:13.3	7:39.9	18
3. (16.)	Martin Semerád	Michal Ernst	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	4:42:46.0	9:12.6	15
4. (18.)	Benito Guerra	Borja Rozada	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X	4:47:12.7	13:39.3	12
5. (19.)	Valeriy Gorban	Sergey Larens	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	4:47:16.7	13:43.3	10
6. (20.)	Oleksandr Saliuk, Jr.	Pavlo Cherepin	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	4:48:10.9	14:37.5	8
7. (24.)	Michał Kościuszko	Maciek Szczepaniak	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X	4:53:02.0	19:28.6	6
8. (26.)	Majed Al Shamsi	Khaled Al Kendi	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	4:54:17.3	20:43.9	4
9. (28.)	Bader Al Jabri	Stephen McAuley	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	5:01:58.7	28:25.3	2
10. (29.)	Patrik Flodin	Göran Bergsten	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	5:02:57.1	29:23.7	1
WRC Academy
1.	Egon Kaur	Mait Laidvee	Ford Fiesta R2	3:30:13.8^†	0.0	28
2.	Victor Henriksson	Joel Ardell	Ford Fiesta R2	3:30:30.2	16.4	19
3.	Christian Riedemann	Michael Wenzel	Ford Fiesta R2	3:33:45.0	3:31.2	15
4.	Brendan Reeves	Rhianon Smyth	Ford Fiesta R2	3:34:57.2	4:43.4	12
5.	Alastair Fisher	Daniel Barritt	Ford Fiesta R2	3:36:09.4	5:55.6	12
6.	Miguel Baldoni	Fernando Mussano	Ford Fiesta R2	3:36:55.2	6:41.4	8
7.	Andrea Crugnola	Roberto Mometti	Ford Fiesta R2	3:42:39.8	12:26.0	6
8.	Molly Taylor	Rebecca Smart	Ford Fiesta R2	3:43:05.7	12:51.9	4
9.	Matteo Brunello	Michele Ferrara	Ford Fiesta R2	3:51:43.2	21:29.4	2
10.	Timo van den Marel	Erwin Berkhof	Ford Fiesta R2	4:11:05.6	40:51.8	1

†^ – The WRC Academy features only the first two legs of the rally.

Special stages

Day	Stage	Time	Name	Length	Winner	Time	Avg. spd.	Rally leader
Leg 1 (24–25 Mar)	SS1	15:30	SSS Lisboa	3.27 km	Mikko Hirvonen	2:49.6	69.41 km/h	Mikko Hirvonen
	SS2	09:05	Santa Clara 1	22.99 km	Petter Solberg	14:03.5	98.12 km/h
	SS3	09:53	Ourique 1	20.27 km	Sébastien Loeb Sébastien Ogier	12:53.9	94.29 km/h
	SS4	11:06	Felizes 1	21.31 km	Sébastien Ogier	13:25.4	95.25 km/h	Sébastien Ogier
	SS5	14:25	Santa Clara 2	22.99 km	Sébastien Ogier Jari-Matti Latvala	13:50.9	99.61 km/h
	SS6	15:13	Ourique 2	20.27 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	12:45.2	95.36 km/h
	SS7	16:26	Felizes 2	21.31 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	13:27.1	95.05 km/h	Jari-Matti Latvala
Leg 2 (26 Mar)	SS8	10:17	Almodovar 1	26.23 km	Sébastien Loeb	16:12.8	97.07 km/h
	SS9	11:10	Vascão 1	25.26 km	Petter Solberg	16:25.9	92.24 km/h
	SS10	12:00	Loulé 1	22.56 km	Sébastien Ogier	15:31.6	87.18 km/h	Sébastien Ogier
	SS11	15:02	Almodovar 2	26.23 km	Sébastien Ogier	15:59.6	98.40 km/h
	SS12	15:55	Vascão 2	25.26 km	Petter Solberg	16:11.2	93.63 km/h
	SS13	16:45	Loulé 2	22.56 km	Petter Solberg	15:13.6	88.90 km/h
Leg 3 (27 Mar)	SS14	07:34	Silves 1	21.39 km	Mikko Hirvonen	12:13.1	105.04 km/h
	SS15	08:27	Santana da Serra 1	31.04 km	Petter Solberg	22:52.2	81.43 km/h
	SS16	11:55	Silves 2	21.39 km	Petter Solberg	12:12.5	105.12 km/h
	SS17	16:11	Santana da Serra 2 (Power stage)	31.04 km	Sébastien Loeb	22:35.9	82.41 km/h

Power Stage

The "Power stage" was a live, televised 31.04 km (19.29 mi) stage at the end of the rally, held near São Marcos da Serra.

Pos	Driver	Time	Diff.	Avg. speed	Points
1	Sébastien Loeb	22:35.9	0.0	82.41 km/h	3
2	Jari-Matti Latvala	22:37.6	+1.7	82.31 km/h	2
3	Sébastien Ogier	22:40.0	+4.1	82.16 km/h	1

References

^ ^a ^b "Itineraries" (PDF). Rally de Portugal. Automóvel Club de Portugal. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
^ "Ogier reigns in Portugal". World Rally Championship. International Sportsworld Communicators. 27 March 2011. Archived from the original on 3 April 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
^ "Ogier strikes gold in Portugal". World Rally Championship. International Sportsworld Communicators. 27 March 2011. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
^ "Portugal PWRC win for Paddon". World Rally Championship. International Sportsworld Communicators. 27 March 2011. Archived from the original on 24 September 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
^ "Kaur is the first FIA WRC Academy winner". World Rally Championship. International Sportsworld Communicators. 26 March 2011. Archived from the original on 30 August 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2011.

External links

Results^{[permanent dead link]} at eWRC.com

[Itin-1] "Itineraries" (PDF). Rally de Portugal. Automóvel Club de Portugal. Retrieved 21 March 2011.

[2] "Ogier reigns in Portugal". World Rally Championship. International Sportsworld Communicators. 27 March 2011. Archived from the original on 3 April 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2011.

[3] "Ogier strikes gold in Portugal". World Rally Championship. International Sportsworld Communicators. 27 March 2011. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2011.

[4] "Portugal PWRC win for Paddon". World Rally Championship. International Sportsworld Communicators. 27 March 2011. Archived from the original on 24 September 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2011.

[5] "Kaur is the first FIA WRC Academy winner". World Rally Championship. International Sportsworld Communicators. 26 March 2011. Archived from the original on 30 August 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2011.

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