2012 Rally de Portugal


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. Solberg's team-mate, Jari-Matti Latvala won the rally's qualifying stage on the Wednesday before the start of the rally. 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.

Results

Event standings

Special stages

Notes:
The "Power stage" was a stage at the end of the rally.
PosDriverTimeDiff.Avg. speedPoints
1 Dani Sordo3:10.4730.00096.1 km/h3
2 Jari-Matti Latvala3:10.747+0.27495.9 km/h2
3 Ott Tänak3:12.569+2.09695.0 km/h1

Championship standings after the event

Drivers' championship


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:

WRC Academy Drivers' Championship

Notes:
  • 1 refers to the number of stages won, where a bonus point is awarded per stage win.
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