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2021 Rally de Portugal
54th edition of Rally de Portugal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 2021 Rally de Portugal (also known as the Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2021) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 20 and 23 May 2021.[2] It marked the fifty-fourth running of the Rally de Portugal. The event was the fourth round of the 2021 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3, as well as the second round of the 2021 Junior World Rally Championship.[3] The 2021 event was based in Matosinhos in the Porto District and was contested over twenty special stages totalling 337.51 km (209.72 mi) in competitive distance.[1]
2021 Rally de Portugal Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2021 | |||
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Round 4 of 12 in the 2021 World Rally Championship
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![]() Rally de Portugal is the first gravel event on the 2021 calendar. | |||
Host country | ![]() | ||
Rally base | Matosinhos, Porto | ||
Dates run | 20 – 23 May 2021 | ||
Start location | Lousã, Coimbra | ||
Finish location | Fafe, Braga | ||
Stages | 20 (337.51 km; 209.72 miles)[1] | ||
Stage surface | Gravel | ||
Transport distance | 1,175.56 km (730.46 miles) | ||
Overall distance | 1,514.07 km (940.80 miles) | ||
Statistics | |||
Crews registered | 81 | ||
Crews | 76 at start, 44 at finish | ||
Overall results | |||
Overall winner | ![]() ![]() ![]() 3:38:26.2 | ||
Power Stage winner | ![]() ![]() ![]() 6:27.2 | ||
Support category results | |||
WRC-2 winner | ![]() ![]() ![]() 3:48:03.4 | ||
WRC-3 winner | ![]() ![]() 3:52:49.7 | ||
J-WRC winner | ![]() ![]() ![]() 4:15:52.7 |
Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja were the defending rally winners. Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, the team they drove for in 2019, were the defending manufacturers' winners.[4] Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen were the defending winners in the WRC-2 category,[5][lower-alpha 1] but they did not defend their titles as they were promoted to the top class by Toyota.[6] In the WRC-3 category, Pierre-Louis Loubet and Vincent Landais were the reigning rally winners,[5][lower-alpha 2] but they did not defend their titles neither as they were promoted to the top class by Hyundai 2C Competition.[7]
Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin won the rally, the first of their season. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, successfully defended their titles.[8] Esapekka Lappi and Janne Ferm won the World Rally Championship-2 category,[9] while Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Maciej Szczepaniak won the World Rally Championship-3 category.[10] The Latvian crew of Mārtiņš Sesks and Francis Renars was the winner in the junior class.[11]