Host country Portugal Stage surface Gravel | Rally base Faro, Portugal | |
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Dates run April 11 – April 14, 2013 Stages 15 (386.73 km; 240.30 mi) Overall distance 163,092 km (101,341 mi) | ||
The 2013 Rally de Portugal was the fourth round of the 2013 World Rally Championship season. The event was based in Faro, Portugal, and started on 11 April and was concluded on 14 April after fifteen special stages, totaling 387 competitive kilometres, including a street stage in Lisbon on 12 April.
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Before the rally
The rally was preceded by the "Fafe Rally Sprint", a single-stage exhibition event run over the famous Fafe stages in the country's north which was won by Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT driver Dani Sordo. Dani Sordo won the rally's qualifying stage (5 km) and elected to run thirteenth (last WRC) on the road as a result. His strategy was followed by all competitors, resulting in an inverted starting order for the rally's first day.
Entry list
Thirteen World Rally Cars were entered into the event, as were twenty entries in the newly formed WRC-2 championship for cars built to Group N and Super 2000 regulations and nine WRC-3 entries. There was also ten entries in the debut of the Junior WRC.
Event standings
^† – The Junior WRC features only the first 11 stages of the rally.Power Stage
The "Power stage" was a 5,230 km (3,250 mi) stage at the end of the rally.
FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers
Points are awarded to the top 10 classified finishers.
Junior WRC Drivers' Championship
Points are awarded to the top 10 classified finishers, and one point for winning a stage. Five best results of the season are counted towards the final score.