2010 Rally de Portugal

2010 Rally de Portugal
Vodafone Rally de Portugal
Round 6 of the 2010 World Rally Championship
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Host country Portugal
Rally baseFaro, Portugal
Dates runMay 27 – 30 2010
Stages18 (355.32 km; 220.79 miles)
Stage surfaceGravel with some asphalt
Overall distance1,223.07 km (759.98 miles)[1]
Statistics
Crews74 at start, 51 at finish
Overall results
Overall winnerFrance Sébastien Ogier
France Citroën Junior Team

The 2010 Rally de Portugal was the 44th Rally de Portugal and the sixth round of the 2010 World Rally Championship season. The rally took place over May 27–30, and was based in Faro, the capital city of the Algarve region. The rally was also the second round of the Junior World Rally Championship and the fifth round of the Super 2000 World Rally Championship.

After losing the lead on the final stage in New Zealand, Citroën Junior Team driver Sébastien Ogier took his first WRC victory by 7.9 seconds ahead of championship leader Sébastien Loeb.[2] Third place went to Loeb's team-mate Dani Sordo, with Mikko Hirvonen edging out Petter Solberg for fourth place on the final run through the super-special stage at the Estádio Algarve. Ogier's victory lifted him into second place in the championship standings, 38 points behind Loeb, after his sixth podium finish out of six rallies in 2010.

  1. ^ "Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2010: Appendix 1 – Itineraries" (PDF). World Rally Championship. Rally de Portugal; International Sportsworld Communicators. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
  2. ^ "WRC wrap: Ogier beats Loeb to win Vodafone Rally de Portugal". World Rally Championship. International Sportsworld Communicators. 2010-05-30. Archived from the original on 2 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-30.