2021 Rally de Portugal
The 2021 Rally de Portugal (also known as the Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2021) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 20 and 23 May 2021. It marked the fifty-fourth running of the Rally de Portugal. The event was the fourth round of the 2021 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3, as well as the second round of the 2021 Junior World Rally Championship. The 2021 event was based in Matosinhos in the Porto District and was contested over twenty special stages totalling 337.51 km (209.72 mi) in competitive distance.
| 2021 Rally de Portugal Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2021 | |||
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Round 4 of 12 in the 2021 World Rally Championship
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Rally de Portugal is the first gravel event on the 2021 calendar. | |||
| Host country | Portugal | ||
| Rally base | Matosinhos, Porto | ||
| Dates run | 20 – 23 May 2021 | ||
| Start location | Lousã, Coimbra | ||
| Finish location | Fafe, Braga | ||
| Stages | 20 (337.51 km; 209.72 miles) | ||
| Stage surface | Gravel | ||
| Transport distance | 1,175.56 km (730.46 miles) | ||
| Overall distance | 1,514.07 km (940.80 miles) | ||
| Statistics | |||
| Crews registered | 81 | ||
| Crews | 76 at start, 44 at finish | ||
| Overall results | |||
| Overall winner | Elfyn Evans Scott Martin Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT 3:38:26.2 | ||
| Power Stage winner | Ott Tänak Martin Järveoja Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT 6:27.2 | ||
| Support category results | |||
| WRC-2 winner | Esapekka Lappi Janne Ferm Movisport 3:48:03.4 | ||
| WRC-3 winner | Kajetan Kajetanowicz Maciej Szczepaniak 3:52:49.7 | ||
| J-WRC winner | Mārtiņš Sesks Francis Renars LMT Autosporta Akademija 4:15:52.7 | ||
Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja were the defending rally winners. Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, the team they drove for in 2019, were the defending manufacturers' winners. Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen were the defending winners in the WRC-2 category, but they did not defend their titles as they were promoted to the top class by Toyota. In the WRC-3 category, Pierre-Louis Loubet and Vincent Landais were the reigning rally winners, but they did not defend their titles neither as they were promoted to the top class by Hyundai 2C Competition.
Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin won the rally, the first of their season. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, successfully defended their titles. Esapekka Lappi and Janne Ferm won the World Rally Championship-2 category, while Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Maciej Szczepaniak won the World Rally Championship-3 category. The Latvian crew of Mārtiņš Sesks and Francis Renars was the winner in the junior class.