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2013 Rally de Portugal

2013 Rally Portugal
47º Rally de Portugal
Round 4 of the 2013 World Rally Championship season
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Andreas Mikkelsen - WRC Portugal 2013 (8647047945).jpg
Andreas Mikkelsen during Rally
Host country Portugal Portugal
Rally base Faro, Portugal
Dates run April 11 – April 14, 2013
Stages 15 (386.73 km; 240.30 mi)
Stage surface Gravel
Overall distance 163,092 km (101,341 mi)
Results
Overall winner France Ogier, SébastienSébastien Ogier
Germany Volkswagen Motorsport
Crews 70 at start, 38 (+ 8 J-WRC) at finish

The 2013 Rally de Portugal was the fourth round of the 2013 World Rally Championship season. The event was based in Faro, Portugal, and started on 11 April and was concluded on 14 April after fifteen special stages, totaling 387 competitive kilometres, including a street stage in Lisbon on 12 April.

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 Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT driver Dani Sordo.Dani Sordo won the rally's qualifying stage (5 km) and elected to run thirteenth (last WRC) on the road as a result. His strategy was followed by all competitors, resulting in an inverted starting order for the rally's first day.

Thirteen World Rally Cars were entered into the event, as were twenty entries in the newly formed WRC-2 championship for cars built to Group N and Super 2000 regulations and nine WRC-3 entries. There was also ten entries in the debut of the Junior WRC.

The "Power stage" was a 5,230 km (3,250 mi) stage at the end of the rally.

Points are awarded to the top 10 classified finishers.

Notes:
1 2 3 – Indicate position on Power Stage

Points are awarded to the top 10 classified finishers, and one point for winning a stage. Five best results of the season are counted towards the final score.


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