Rally Portugal 2010

 Rally Portugal 2010

Racing data
6th of 13 rounds of the 2010 World Rally Championship
Surname:	Rally Portugal
Date:	27.-30. May 2010
Begin:	Faro
Exams:	18 tests over 355.32 km
Distance:	1223.07 km
Covering:	gravel
Podium
First:	Sébastien Ogier Citroën Junior Team
Second:	Sébastien Loeb Citroën World Rally Team
Third:	Daniel Sordo Citroën World Rally Team

Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia in the Citroën C4 WRC

The Rally Portugal was the sixth round of the 2010 World Rally Championship . The event took place from May 27th to May 30th. The headquarters were in the city of Faro ( Algarve region ). The rally was also the second round of the Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC) and the fifth round of the Super 2000 World Rally Championship (SWRC).

Race report

After Sébastien Ogier (Citroën) had to surrender the first victory of his career in New Zealand in the last special stage, it worked out in Portugal. Ogier won six of 18 special stages and was able to distance the World Championship leader Sébastien Loeb (Citroën) by 7.9 seconds in the overall standings. Third place went to Dani Sordo (Citroën) and Mikko Hirvonen (Ford) pushed Petter Solberg (Citroën) into fifth place in the last special stage. Ogier caught up in the world championship table with victory in Portugal and was in second place, 38 points behind Loeb, who stood on the podium for the sixth time at the sixth rally of the year.

Classifications

Bottom line

Item	driver	Co-driver	automobile	time	Residue	Points
WRC
1	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 51: 16.1		25th
2	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 51: 24.0	0: 07.9	18th
3	Daniel Sordo	Marc Martí	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 52: 33.7	1: 17.6	15th
4th	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 52: 48.1	1: 32.0	12
5	Petter Solberg	Phil Mills	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 52: 51.8	1: 35.7	10
6th	Matthew Wilson	Scott Martin	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 58: 26.2	7: 10.1	8th
7th	Mads Østberg	Jonas Andersson	Subaru Impreza WRC	3: 58: 44.4	7: 28.3	6th
8th	Federico Villagra	Jorge Pérez Companc	Ford Focus RS WRC	4: 01: 52.2	10: 36.1	4th
9	Khalid Al Qassimi	Michael Orr	Ford Focus RS WRC	4: 02: 11.9	10: 55.8	2
10	Kimi Raikkonen	Kaj Lindström	Citroën C4 WRC	4: 02: 50.4	11: 34.3	1
SWRC
1 (11)	Jari Ketomaa	Mika Stenberg	Ford Fiesta S2000	4: 07: 36.1	0.0	25th
2 (12)	Xavier Pons	Alex Haro	Ford Fiesta S2000	4: 11: 08.3	3: 32.2	18th
3 (13)	Michał Kościuszko	Maciek Szczepaniak	Škoda Fabia S2000	4: 13: 03.5	5: 27.4	15th
4 (15)	Bernardo Sousa	Nuno Rodrigues da Silva	Ford Fiesta S2000	4: 16: 57.4	9: 21.3	12
5 (16)	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Not so Fredriksson	Škoda Fabia S2000	4: 23: 23.4	15: 47.3	10
6 (24)	Vítor Pascoal	Mario Castro	Peugeot 207 S2000	4: 28: 55.4	21: 19.3	8th
7 (25)	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Giovanni Bernacchini	Ford Fiesta S2000	4:30: 20.3	22: 44.2	6th
8 (28)	Janne Tuohino	Risto Pietiläinen	Ford Fiesta S2000	4: 35: 44.1	28: 08.0	4th
9 (29)	Eyvind Brynildsen	Cato Menkerud	Škoda Fabia S2000	4: 36: 00.0	28: 23.9	2
10 (41)	Albert Llovera	Borja Rozada	Fiat Punto S2000	4: 58: 36.7	51: 00.6	1
JWRC
1 (21)	Kevin Abbring	Erwin Mombaerts	Renault Clio R3	4: 27: 34.4	0.0	25th
2 (27)	Karl Kruuda	Martin Järveoja	Suzuki Swift S1600	4: 33: 29.1	5: 54.7	18th
3 (32)	Aaron Burkart	Another tile	Suzuki Swift S1600	4: 38: 53.9	11: 19.5	15th
4 (40)	Yeray Lemes	Rogelio Peňate	Renault Clio S1600	4: 53: 16.3	25: 41.9	12
5 (50)	Egoi Eder Valdes Lopez	Albert Garduno	Renault Clio R3	5: 25: 40.2	58: 05.8	10
6 (51)	Harry Hunt	Sebastian Marshall	Ford Fiesta R2	5: 36: 13.5	1: 08: 39.1	8th

Special stages

Day	WP number	WP name	length	WP winner	time	Ø km / h	leader
Day 1/2 (May 27-28)	WP1	Estádio Algarve 1	2.03 km	Mikko Hirvonen	2: 09.3	56.52 km / h	Mikko Hirvonen
	WP2	Santa Clara 1	22.72 km	Dani Sordo	14: 09.3	96.31 km / h	Dani Sordo
	WP3	Ourique 1	20.21 km	Sébastien Ogier	13: 02.5	92.98 km / h
	WP4	Silves 1	21.36 km	Sébastien Ogier	12: 06.3	105.87 km / h	Sébastien Ogier
	WP5	Santa Clara 2	22.72 km	Sébastien Ogier	13: 54.9	97.97 km / h
	WP6	Ourique 2	20.21 km	Sébastien Ogier	13: 03.8	92.82 km / h
	WP7	Silves 2	21.36 km	Sébastien Ogier	12: 05.5	105.99 km / h
Day 2 (May 29th)	WP8	Almodôvar 1	26.20 km	Sébastien Loeb	16: 40.4	94.28 km / h
	WP9	Vascão 1	25.23 km	Sébastien Loeb	16: 31.2	91.63 km / h
	WP10	São Brás de Alportel 1	16.12 km	Petter Solberg	11: 43.4	82.50 km / h
	WP11	Almodôvar 2	26.20 km	Sébastien Ogier	16: 38.7	94.44 km / h
	WP12	Vascão 2	25.23 km	Sébastien Loeb	16: 29.2	91.82 km / h
	WP13	São Brás de Alportel 2	16.12 km	Sébastien Loeb	11: 39.9	82.91 km / h
Day 3 (May 30th)	WP14	Felizes 1	21.28 km	Sébastien Loeb	13: 35.6	93.93 km / h
	WP15	Loulé 1	22.51 km	Sébastien Loeb	15: 22.7	87.82 km / h
	WP16	Felizes 2	21.28 km	Sébastien Loeb	13: 37.1	93.76 km / h
	WP17	Loulé 2	22.51 km	Sébastien Loeb	15: 27.3	87.39 km / h
	WP18	Estádio Algarve 2	2.03 km	Federico Villagra	2: 09.9	56.26 km / h

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ewrc-results.com: Rally de Portugal 2010 , accessed on December 20, 2014

Web links

Commons : World Rally Championship 2010  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website