2007 Rally de Portugal
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| 2007 Rally de Portugal 41º Vodafone Rally de Portugal | |||
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Round 5 of the 2007 World Rally Championship
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 Eventual winner Sébastien Loeb during the rally. | |||
| Host country |  Portugal | ||
| Rally base | Faro, Portugal | ||
| Dates run | March 29 – April 1, 2007 | ||
| Stages | 18 (357.1 km; 221.9 miles) | ||
| Stage surface | Gravel | ||
| Overall distance | 1,009.31 km (627.16 miles) | ||
| Statistics | |||
| Crews | 80 at start, 61 at finish | ||
| Overall results | |||
| Overall winner |  Sébastien Loeb Citroën Total World Rally Team | ||
The 2007 Vodafone Rally de Portugal was the 41st Rally de Portugal and the fifth round of the 2007 World Rally Championship season. It took place between March 30–April 1, 2007 and consisted of 18 special stages. 61 drivers finished the rally and the winner was Citroën's Sébastien Loeb, followed by Subaru's Petter Solberg and Citroën's Dani Sordo.
All Ford Focus RS WRC 06 drivers were given five-minute time penalties, because the glass used in the cars' rear side windows was 0.5 mm too thin. This dropped Marcus Grönholm from second to fourth, Mikko Hirvonen from third to fifth, Jari-Matti Latvala from sixth to eighth and Henning Solberg from ninth to 11th.[1]
Results
Retirements
Luís Pérez Companc - retired before SS1;- Juan Pablo Raies - retired before SS1;
Guy Wilks - rolled (SS3);
Martin Prokop - mechanical (SS5);
Mads Østberg - retired after first leg (SS7/8);
Toni Gardemeister - excluded for driving on three wheels.[2]
Michał Kościuszko - went off the road (SS9);
Chris Atkinson - went off the road (SS10);
Special Stages
All dates and times are WEST (UTC+1).
| Leg | Stage | Time | Name | Length | Winner | Time | Avg. spd. | Rally leader |
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| 1 (29 Mar - 30 Mar) |
SS1 | 17:35 | SSS Estadio Algarve | 2.20 km |  M. Grönholm
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2:05.8 | 62.96 km/h | M. Grönholm
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| SS2 | 10:27 | Tavira 1 | 19.92 km | M. Hirvonen
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14:07.5 | 84.62 km/h | ||
| SS3 | 11:27 | Serra de Tavira 1 | 24.37 km | M. Grönholm
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16:30.1 | 88.61 km/h | ||
| SS4 | 12:15 | S. Bras de Alportel 1 | 16.70 km | S. Loeb
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11:24.3 | 87.86 km/h | ||
| SS5 | 14:44 | Tavira 2 | 19.92 km | M. Grönholm
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13:52.3 | 86.16 km/h | ||
| SS6 | 15:44 | Serra de Tavira 2 | 24.37 km | S. Loeb
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16:10.2 | 90.43 km/h | ||
| SS7 | 16:32 | S. Bras de Alportel 2 | 16.70 km | S. Loeb
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11:10.6 | 89.65 km/h | S. Loeb
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| 2 (31 Mar) |
SS8 | 09:48 | Silves / Ourique 1 | 30.69 km | S. Loeb
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21:36.5 | 85.22 km/h | |
| SS9 | 10:37 | Ourique 1 | 24.87 km | S. Loeb
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14:59.9 | 99.49 km/h | ||
| SS10 | 11:32 | Almodóvar 1 | 20.88 km | S. Loeb
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11:40.5 | 107.31 km/h | ||
| SS11 | 14:50 | Silves / Ourique 2 | 30.69 km | S. Loeb
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20:16.0 | 90.86 km/h | ||
| SS12 | 15:39 | Ourique 2 | 24.87 km | S. Loeb
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14:35.0 | 102.32 km/h | ||
| SS13 | 16:34 | Almodóvar 2 | 20.88 km | S. Loeb
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11:38.6 | 107.6 km/h | ||
| 3 (1 Apr) |
SS14 | 08:07 | Loule / Almodóvar 1 | 17.60 km | M. Hirvonen
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11:18.0 | 93.45 km/h | |
| SS15 | 08:39 | Loule 1 | 22.70 km | S. Loeb
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14:09.3 | 96.22 km/h | ||
| SS16 | 11:42 | Loule / Almodóvar 2 | 17.60 km | M. Grönholm
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11:11.1 | 94.41 km/h | ||
| SS17 | 12:14 | Loule 2 | 22.70 km | M. Grönholm
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14:02.0 | 97.05 km/h | ||
| SS18 | 14:00 | Estadio Algarve 2 | 2.20 km | S. Loeb
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2:06.8 | 62.46 km/h |
Championship standings after the event
Drivers' championship
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Manufacturers' championship
| Rank | Manufacturer | Event | Total points | |||||||||||||||
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MON
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SWE
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NOR
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MEX
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POR
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ARG
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ITA
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GRC
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FIN
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GER
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NZL
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ESP
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FRA
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JPN
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IRL
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GBR
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| 1 | BP Ford World Rally Team | 10 | 16 | 18 | 14 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 67 |
| 2 | Citroën Total World Rally Team | 18 | 9 | 1 | 15 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 59 |
| 3 | Subaru World Rally Team | 8 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 27 |
| 4 | Stobart VK M-Sport Ford | 1 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 |
| OMV Kronos | 2 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | |
| 6 | Munchi's Ford World Rally Team | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | |||
References
- ^ "Time penalty dashes Grönholm's chances in Rally of Portugal". Helsingin Sanomat. Retrieved 2007-05-28.
- ^ "Gardemeister excluded". Crash.net. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-05-28.
External links
- Results on official site - WRC.com
- Results on eWRC-results.com
- Results on RallyBase.nl
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