2007 Rally de Portugal explained

2007 Rally de Portugal
Native Name:	41º Vodafone Rally de Portugal
Round:	5
Championship:	2007 World Rally Championship
Previous Round:	2007 Rally México
Next Round:	2007 Rally Argentina
Rallybase:	Faro, Portugal
Startdate:	March 29
Enddate:	April 1, 2007
Stages:	18
Stagekm:	357.1
Overallkm:	1009.31
Surface:	Gravel
Driver1:	Sébastien Loeb
Team1:	Citroën Total World Rally Team
Teamsstart:	80
Teamsfinish:	61

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

Pos.	Driver	Co-driver	Car	Time	Difference	Points
WRC
1.	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën C4 WRC	3:53:33.1	0.0	10
2.	Petter Solberg	Phil Mills	Subaru Impreza WRC	3:56:47.0	3:13.9	8
3.	Daniel Sordo	Marc Marti	Citroën C4 WRC	3:58:38.4	5:05.3	6
4.	Marcus Grönholm	Timo Rautiainen	Ford Focus RS WRC 06	3:59:10.2 ^[1]	5:37.1	5
5.	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen	Ford Focus RS WRC 06	4:00:41.2 ^[1]	7:08.1	4
6.	Daniel Carlsson	Denis Giraudet	Citroën Xsara WRC	4:01:46.3	8:13.2	3
7.	Gian-Luigi Galli	Giovanni Bernacchni	Citroën Xsara WRC	4:03:12.7	9:39.6	2
8.	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Ford Focus RS WRC 06	4:04:18.0 ^[1]	10:44.9	1
^[1] - All Ford Focus RS WRC 06 drivers were given five-minute time penalties due to 0.5 mm too thin rear side windows.
JRC
1. (14.)	Per-Gunner Andersson	Jonas Andersson	Suzuki Swift S1600	4:22:43.4	0.0	10
2. (15.)	Urmo Aava	Kuldar Sikk	Suzuki Swift S1600	4:22:47.1	3.7	8
3. (18.)	Jozef Béreš jun.	Petr Starý	Renault Clio S1600	4:30:32.3	7:48.9	6
4. (21.)	Jaan Mölder jr.	Katrin Becker	Suzuki Swift S1600	4:34.39.9	11:56.5	5
5. (22.)	Andrea Cortinovis	Flavio Zanella	Renault Clio S1600	4:37.37.2	14:53.8	4
6. (26.)	Manuel Rueda	Borja Rozada	Renault Clio R3	4:43:38.1	20:54.7	3
7. (30.)	Shaun Gallagher	Clive Jenkins	Citroën C2 S1600	4:49:23.3	26:39.9	2
8. (32.)	Vilius Rožukas	Audrius Šošas	Suzuki Swift S1600	4:55:58.3 ^[2]	33:14.9	1
				^[2] - Drivers using SupeRally

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
1 (29 Mar - 30 Mar)	SS1	17:35	SSS Estadio Algarve	2.20 km	M. Grönholm	2:05.8	62.96 km/h	align=left rowspan="6"	M. Grönholm
	SS2	10:27	Tavira 1	19.92 km	M. Hirvonen	14:07.5	84.62 km/h
	SS3	11:27	Serra de Tavira 1	24.37 km	M. Grönholm	16:30.1	88.61 km/h
	SS4	12:15	S. Bras de Alportel 1	16.70 km	S. Loeb	11:24.3	87.86 km/h
	SS5	14:44	Tavira 2	19.92 km	M. Grönholm	13:52.3	86.16 km/h
	SS6	15:44	Serra de Tavira 2	24.37 km	S. Loeb	16:10.2	90.43 km/h
	SS7	16:32	S. Bras de Alportel 2	16.70 km	S. Loeb	11:10.6	89.65 km/h	align=left rowspan="12"	S. Loeb
2 (31 Mar)	SS8	09:48	Silves / Ourique 1	30.69 km	S. Loeb	21:36.5	85.22 km/h
	SS9	10:37	Ourique 1	24.87 km	S. Loeb	14:59.9	99.49 km/h
	SS10	11:32	Almodóvar 1	20.88 km	S. Loeb	11:40.5	107.31 km/h
	SS11	14:50	Silves / Ourique 2	30.69 km	S. Loeb	20:16.0	90.86 km/h
	SS12	15:39	Ourique 2	24.87 km	S. Loeb	14:35.0	102.32 km/h
	SS13	16:34	Almodóvar 2	20.88 km	S. Loeb	11:38.6	107.6 km/h
3 (1 Apr)	SS14	08:07	Loule / Almodóvar 1	17.60 km	M. Hirvonen	11:18.0	93.45 km/h
	SS15	08:39	Loule 1	22.70 km	S. Loeb	14:09.3	96.22 km/h
	SS16	11:42	Loule / Almodóvar 2	17.60 km	M. Grönholm	11:11.1	94.41 km/h
	SS17	12:14	Loule 2	22.70 km	M. Grönholm	14:02.0	97.05 km/h
	SS18	14:00	Estadio Algarve 2	2.20 km	S. Loeb	2:06.8	62.46 km/h

Championship standings after the event

Drivers' championship

Pos Driver MON SWE NOR MEX POR ARG ITA GRC FIN GER NZL ESP FRA JPN IRL GBR  Pts  1 Sébastien Loeb 1 2 14 1 1 38 2 Marcus Grönholm 3 1 2 2 4 37 3 Mikko Hirvonen 5 3 1 3 5 30 4 Dani Sordo 2 12 25 4 3 19 5 Petter Solberg 6 Ret 4 Ret 2 16 6 Henning Solberg 14 4 3 9 11 11 7 Chris Atkinson 4 8 19 5 Ret 10 8 Daniel Carlsson 5 7 6 9 9 Jari-Matti Latvala Ret Ret 5 7 8 7 10 Toni Gardemeister 7 6 Ret DSQ 5 Manfred Stohl 10 7 12 6 10 5 Gigi Galli 13 6 7 5 13 Jan Kopecký 8 10 8 22 2 14 Matthew Wilson 12 Ret 26 8 12 1 Pos Driver MON SWE NOR MEX POR ARG ITA GRC FIN GER NZL ESP FRA JPN IRL GBR  Pts

Manufacturers' championship

Rank	Manufacturer	Event																Total points
	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRC	FIN	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRL	GBR
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
		2	7	5	3	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	21
6			0		0		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0

External links

• Results on official site - WRC.com
• Results on eWRC-results.com
• Results on RallyBase.nl

Notes and References

1. Web site: Time penalty dashes Grönholm's chances in Rally of Portugal . . 2007-05-28.
2. Web site: Gardemeister excluded . Crash.net . 2007-05-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210000/http://www.crash.net/news_View~cid~4~id~145445.htm . 2007-09-27 . dead .