| 2019 Rally de Portugal | |
| Native Name: | 53. Vodafone Rally de Portugal |
| Round: | 7 |
| Season No: | 14 |
| Championship: | 2019 World Rally Championship |
| Previous Round: | 2019 Rally Chile |
| Next Round: | 2019 Rally Italia Sardegna |
| Rallybase: | Matosinhos, Porto |
| Start: | Lousã, Coimbra |
| Finish: | Fafe, Braga |
| Startdate: | 30 May |
| Enddate: | 2 June 2019 |
| Stages: | 20 |
| Stagekm: | 311.47 |
| Transportkm: | 1,429.19 |
| Overallkm: | 1,117.96 |
| Surface: | Gravel |
| Driver1: |  Ott Tänak |
| Codriver1: | Martin Järveoja |
| Team1: |  Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT |
| Time1: | 3:20:22.8 |
| Driver2pro: |  Kalle Rovanperä |
| Codriver2pro: | Jonne Halttunen |
| Team2pro: |  Škoda Motorsport |
| Time2pro: | 3:30:57.0 |
| Driver2: |  Pierre-Louis Loubet |
| Codriver2: | Vincent Landais |
| Team2: | Pierre-Louis Loubet |
| Time2: | 3:33:09.1 |
| Powerstage Driver: | Sébastien Ogier |
| Powerstage Codriver: | Julien Ingrassia |
| Powerstage Team: | Citroën Total WRT |
| Crewsreg: | 61 |
| Teamsstart: | 60 |
| Teamsfinish: | 33 |
The 2019 Rally de Portugal (also known as the Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2019) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 30 May and 2 June 2019.[1] It marked the fifty-third running of Rally de Portugal, and was the seventh round of the 2019 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and the newly created WRC-2 Pro class. The rally was also part of the Portuguese national championship and Peugeot Rally Cup Ibérica. The 2019 event was based in Matosinhos in Porto and consisted of twenty special stages totalling 311.472NaN2 competitive kilometres.
Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the defending rally winners. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the manufacturers' winners.[2] Pontus Tidemand and Jonas Andersson were the defending winners in the World Rally Championship-2 category, but they did not participate in the rally.[3] The Swedish crew Denis Rådström and Johan Johansson were the reigning World Rally Championship-3 winners, but they did not defend their titles as the category was discontinued in 2019.[4]
Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja won the Rally de Portugal for the first time in their career. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the manufacturers' winners.[5] The Škoda Motorsport crew of Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen took the back-to-back victory in the WRC-2 Pro category, finishing first in the combined WRC-2 category, while the French crew of Pierre-Louis Loubet and Vincent Landais won the wider WRC-2 class.[6]
Defending world champions Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia led both the drivers' and co-drivers' championships with a ten-point lead over Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja. Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were third, a further two points behind. In the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT held a twenty-nine-point lead over Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT.[7]
In the World Rally Championship-2 Pro standings, Gus Greensmith and Elliott Edmondson held a five-point lead ahead of Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen in the drivers' and co-drivers' standings respectively. Łukasz Pieniążek and Kamil Heller were third, six points further back. In the manufacturers' championship, M-Sport Ford WRT led Škoda Motorsport by sixty-two points, with Citroën Total fifteen points further behind in third.[8]
In the World Rally Championship-2 standings, Benito Guerra and Jaime Zapata led the drivers' and co-drivers' standings by fourteen points respectively. Takamoto Katsuta and Daniel Barritt were second, following by Ole Christian Veiby and Jonas Andersson in third.[8]
The following crews entered into the rally. The event opened to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2, WRC-2 Pro, Portuguese national championship, Peugeot Rally Cup Ibérica and privateer entries not registered to score points in any championship. A total of sixty-one entries were received, with twelve crews entered with World Rally Cars and twenty-seven entered the World Rally Championship-2. Four crews were nominated to score points in the Pro class.
The 2019 route cut 46.721NaN1 from the 2018 itinerary to meet the regulation of the 3501NaN1 maximum total distance.[10] [11]
All dates and times are WEST (UTC+1).
José Díaz
Ilka Minor-Petrasko
"Pedro"