2014 Rally de Portugal


The 2014 Rally de Portugal was the fourth round of the 2014 World Rally Championship season. The event was based in Faro, Portugal, and started on 3 April and finished on 6 April after sixteen special stages, totaling 339.5 competitive kilometres, including a street stage in Lisbon on 3 April.
WRC Champion Sébastien Ogier won the Rally de Portugal for the fourth time, taking his third victory of the 2014 season.

Entry list

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 Volkswagen driver Sebastien Ogier.

During the rally

WRC leader Sébastien Ogier was the first on the road in the first leg, but his disadvantage was decreased since in the days before the rally it rained, and the Algarve roads were a combination of dry and a little moist tracks, which led to difficulties for drivers to choose the right tire compound.
Sébastien Ogier led the rally since Lisbon SSS until the last stage of the first leg, finishing behind Mikko Hirvonen and Ott Tänak. In the middle Dani Sordo was in the lead after winning SS2 and SS3 with his Hyundai i20 WRC.
In the 2nd leg Sébastien Ogier imposed a demonic pace retaking the lead and quickly pulled away from a powerless Mikko Hirvonen. Mads Østberg finished in the podium last place. Dani Sordo after a promising start, retired at the beginning of the last day when he was in overall fourth place.
This rally was marked by the high number of crashes between the top drivers: Jari-Matti Latvala, Kris Meeke, Elfyn Evans and Robert Kubica.

Results

Event standings

Special stages

Power Stage

The "Power stage" was a stage at the end of the rally.
PosDriverCarTimeDiff.Pts
1 Sébastien OgierVolkswagen Polo R WRC8:41.70.03
2 Jari-Matti LatvalaVolkswagen Polo R WRC8:45.0+3.32
3 Mads ØstbergCitroën DS3 WRC8:46.0+4.31

Standings after the rally

WRC

;Drivers' Championship standings
DriverPoints
1 Sebastien Ogier91
2 Jari-Matti Latvala62
3 Mads Ostberg48
4 Andreas Mikkelsen36
5 Mikko Hirvonen36

;Manufacturers' Championship standings
ManufacturerPoints
1 Volkswagen Motorsport144
2 Citroën World Rally Team75
3 M-Sport World Rally Team60
4 Hyundai World Rally Team45
5 Volkswagen Motorsport II40

Other

;WRC2 Drivers' Championship standings
DriverPoints
1 Yuriy Protasov60
2 Lorenzo Bertelli44
3 Karl Kruuda37
4 Jari Ketomaa36
5 Nasser Al-Attiyah25

;WRC3 Drivers' Championship standings
DriverPoints
1 Quentin Gilbert25
2 Stéphane Lefebvre25
3 Christian Riedemann18
4 Martin Koči15
5 Federico della Casa12

;Junior WRC Drivers' Championship standings
DriverPoints
1 Stéphane Lefebvre25
2 Christian Riedemann18
3 Martin Koči15
4 Federico della Casa12
5 Simone Campedelli10