| 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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.jpg) Rally de Portugal is the first gravel event on the 2021 calendar. | |||
| Host country |  Portugal | ||
| 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 |  Elfyn Evans Scott Martin Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT3:38:26.2 | ||
| Power Stage winner |  Ott Tänak Martin Järveoja Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT6:27.2 | ||
| Support category results | |||
| WRC-2 winner |  Esapekka Lappi Janne Ferm Movisport3:48:03.4 | ||
| WRC-3 winner |  Kajetan Kajetanowicz Maciej Szczepaniak3:52:49.7 | ||
| J-WRC winner |  Mārtiņš Sesks Francis Renars LMT Autosporta Akademija4:15:52.7 | ||
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]
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][a] 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][b] 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]
- ^ a b "Itinerary Rally de Portugal 2021". ewrc-results.com. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
- ^ "Croatia and Estonia named in 2021 WRC calendar". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 9 October 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
- ^ "Five rounds named in junior WRC calendar". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 28 January 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- ^ "Sunday in Portugal: Tänak secures back-to-back wins". wrc.com. WRC. June 2, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
- ^ a b "Sunday in Portugal: Rovanperä claims Pro lead". wrc.com. WRC. June 2, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
- ^ "Toyota reveals 2020 line-up". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 27 November 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
- ^ "Full Rally1 WRC program in 2021 for Loubet". dirtfish.com. DirtFish. 30 December 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
- ^ "Evans powers to Portugal victory". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 23 May 2021. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- ^ "WRC2: Lappi dominates again". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 23 May 2021. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- ^ "WRC3: Kajetanowicz seals back-to-back wins". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 23 May 2021. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- ^ "Junior WRC: Sesks soars to championship lead". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. 23 May 2021. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
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