2019 Rally de Portugal
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. 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 311.47 km (193.54 mi) competitive kilometres.
| 2019 Rally de Portugal 53. Vodafone Rally de Portugal | |||
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Round 7 of 14 in the 2019 World Rally Championship
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Rocks and deep ruts are the features of the rally. | |||
| Host country | Portugal | ||
| Rally base | Matosinhos, Porto | ||
| Dates run | 30 May – 2 June 2019 | ||
| Start location | Lousã, Coimbra | ||
| Finish location | Fafe, Braga | ||
| Stages | 20 (311.47 km; 193.54 miles) | ||
| Stage surface | Gravel | ||
| Transport distance | 1,429.19 km (888.06 miles) | ||
| Overall distance | 1,117.96 km (694.67 miles) | ||
| Statistics | |||
| Crews registered | 61 | ||
| Crews | 60 at start, 33 at finish | ||
| Overall results | |||
| Overall winner | Ott Tänak Martin Järveoja Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT 3:20:22.8 | ||
| Power Stage winner | Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia Citroën Total WRT | ||
| Support category results | |||
| WRC-2 winner | Pierre-Louis Loubet Vincent Landais Pierre-Louis Loubet 3:33:09.1 | ||
Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the defending rally winners. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the manufacturers' winners. Pontus Tidemand and Jonas Andersson were the defending winners in the World Rally Championship-2 category, but they did not participate in the rally. 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.
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. 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.