2018 Rally de Portugal 52°Vodafone Rally de Portugal
Round 6 of 13 in the 2018 World Rally Championship
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Rally winning crew Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul at the iconic Fafe Stage.
Host country
Portugal
Rally base
Matosinhos, Porto
Dates run
17 – 20 May 2018
Start location
Guimarães Castle, Braga
Finish location
Fafe, Braga
Stages
20 (358.19 km; 222.57 miles)
Stage surface
Gravel
Transport distance
1,225.33 km (761.38 miles)
Overall distance
1,583.08 km (983.68 miles)
Statistics
Crews registered
85
Crews
85 at start, 45 at finish
Overall results
Overall winner
Thierry Neuville Nicolas Gilsoul Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT 3:49:46.6
Power Stage winner
Esapekka Lappi Janne Ferm Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT
Support category results
WRC-2 winner
Pontus Tidemand Jonas Andersson Škoda Motorsport 4:03:57.4
WRC-3 winner
Denis Rådström Johan Johansson Denis Rådström 4:26:51.2
The 2018 Rally de Portugal (formally known as the Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2018) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 17 and 20 May 2018.[1] It marked the fifty-second running of Rally de Portugal, and was the sixth round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship and its support categories, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships, and the third round of the Junior WRC championship.[2][3] The event was based in Matosinhos in Porto and consisted of twenty special stages totalling 358.19 km (222.57 mi) competitive kilometres.[4] The event was also part of the Portuguese national championship (first 9 stages) and Peugeot Rally Cup Ibérica (first 12 stages); their participants did not feature in the overall placings.[5]
Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia were the defending rally winners.[6] Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the rally winners. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the manufacturers' winners.[7] The Škoda Motorsport crew of Pontus Tidemand and Jonas Andersson won the World Rally Championship-2 category in a Škoda Fabia R5, while Swedish crew Denis Rådström and Johan Johansson won the World Rally Championship-3 and Junior World Rally Championship.[8]
^"Vodafone Rally de Portugal". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. Archived from the original on 25 May 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
^"Rally Aus retains WRC finale in 2018". speedcafe.com. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
^"Junior WRC Calendar". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. Archived from the original on 17 February 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
^"Rally de Portugal - Calendar". wrc.com. WRC Promoter GmbH. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
^Cite error: The named reference Portugal Results 2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Beer, Matt; Cozens, Jack (21 May 2017). "WRC Rally of Portugal: Ogier takes comfortable second win of season". autosport.com. Motorsport Network. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
^"Breaking News: Neuville Wins In Portugal". wrc.com. WRC. 20 May 2018. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
^"WRC 2 in Portugal: Tidemand takes comfortable win". wrc.com. WRC. 20 May 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
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Global Information
Portugal
Thierry Neuville
Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT
Esapekka Lappi
Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT
Pontus Tidemand
Škoda Motorsport