2012 Rally Portugal 46º Rally de Portugal |
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Round 4 of the 2012 World Rally Championship season |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Sordo_vascao_p2_2012.jpg/220px-Sordo_vascao_p2_2012.jpg) Dani Sordo during Rally |
Host country | Portugal |
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Rally base | Faro, Portugal |
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Dates run | 29 March – 1 April 2012 |
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Stages | 22 (434.77 km; 270.15 miles) |
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Stage surface | Gravel |
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Statistics |
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Crews | 49 at start, 30 at finish |
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The 2012 Rally de Portugal was the fourth round of the 2012 World Rally Championship season and was based in Faro, Portugal. It started with a street stage in Lisbon on 29 March and concluded on 1 April after twenty-two special stages, totalling 434 competitive kilometres.
Report
Before the rally
The rally was preceded by the "Fafe Rally Sprint", a single-stage exhibition event run over the famous Fafe stages in the country's north which was won by Ford World Rally Team driver Petter Solberg.[1] Solberg's team-mate, Jari-Matti Latvala won the rally's qualifying stage on the Wednesday before the start of the rally.[2] Latvala elected to run seventeenth on the road as a result; by contrast, Citroën Total World Rally Team drivers Mikko Hirvonen and Sébastien Loeb elected to run first and second respectively.[3]
Results
Event standings
- ^† – The WRC Academy features only the first 13 stages of the rally.
Special stages
Notes:
Power Stage
The "Power stage" was a 5.08 km (3.16 mi) stage at the end of the rally.[5]
Championship standings after the event
Drivers' championship
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Key | Colour | Result | Gold | Winner | Silver | 2nd place | Bronze | 3rd place | Green | Points finish | Blue | Non-points finish | Non-classified finish (NC) | Purple | Did not finish (Ret) | Black | Excluded (EX) | Disqualified (DSQ) | White | Did not start (DNS) | Cancelled (C) | Blank | Withdrew entry from the event (WD) | |
Notes:
- 1 2 3 refers to the classification of the drivers on the 'Power Stage', where bonus points are awarded 3–2–1 for the fastest three drivers on the stage.
Manufacturers' championship
Notes:
SWRC Drivers' championship
| Key | Colour | Result | Gold | Winner | Silver | 2nd place | Bronze | 3rd place | Green | Points finish | Blue | Non-points finish | Non-classified finish (NC) | Purple | Did not finish (Ret) | Black | Excluded (EX) | Disqualified (DSQ) | White | Did not start (DNS) | Cancelled (C) | Blank | Withdrew entry from the event (WD) | |
WRC Academy Drivers' Championship
Pos | Driver | POR
| GRE
| FIN
| GER
| FRA
| ESP
| Pts | 1 | Alastair Fisher | 1 3 | | | | | | 28 | 2 | Brendan Reeves | 2 2 | | | | | | 20 | 3 | Pontus Tidemand | 3 1 | | | | | | 16 | 4 | Timo van der Marel | 4 | | | | | | 12 | 5 | Fredrik Ahlin | 6 3 | | | | | | 11 | 6 | Jose Antonio Suarez | 5 | | | | | | 10 | 7 | Elfyn Evans | 7 | | | | | | 6 | 8 | João Silva | 8 | | | | | | 4 | 9 | John MacCrone | 9 | | | | | | 2 | — | Christopher Duplessis | Ret | | | | | | 0 | Pos | Driver | POR
| GRE
| FIN
| GER
| FRA
| ESP
| Pts | | Key | Colour | Result | Gold | Winner | Silver | 2nd place | Bronze | 3rd place | Green | Points finish | Blue | Non-points finish | Non-classified finish (NC) | Purple | Did not finish (Ret) | Black | Excluded (EX) | Disqualified (DSQ) | White | Did not start (DNS) | Cancelled (C) | Blank | Withdrew entry from the event (WD) | |
Notes:
- 1 refers to the number of stages won, where a bonus point is awarded per stage win.
References
- ^ Petter Solberg beats Sebastien Loeb to Fafe Rally Sprint win – WRC news – AUTOSPORT.com
- ^ Ford dominates Rally Portugal qualifying as Latvala and Solberg finish fastest – WRC news – AUTOSPORT.com
- ^ Ford and Citroen choose opposite running order strategy for opening stages of Rally Portugal – WRC news – AUTOSPORT.com
- ^ "Rally of Portugal's final Friday stages called off". Autosport. Haymarket Publications. 30 March 2012. Retrieved 30 March 2012.
- ^ "RZ22 Sambro 2". ewrc-results.com. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
- ^ "2012 FIA World Rally Championship – Entrants". fia.com. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 8 February 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-02-12. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
- ^ a b Evans, David (6 February 2012). "Prodrive loses status as MINI's factory World Rally Team". Autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
- ^ a b "FIA confirms updated manufacturers'list". World Rally Championship. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 8 February 2012. Archived from the original on 12 February 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2012.