2022 Rally de Portugal
The 2022 Rally de Portugal (also known as the Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2022) was a motor racing event for rally cars held over four days between 19 and 22 May 2022. It marked the fifty-fifth running of the Rally de Portugal. The event was the fourth round of the 2022 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. The 2022 event was based in Matosinhos in the Porto District and was contested over twenty-one special stages covering a total competitive distance of 330.17 km (205.16 mi).
| 2022 Rally de Portugal Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2022 | |||
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Round 4 of 13 in the 2022 World Rally Championship
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Rally de Portugal is the first gravel event on the 2022 calendar. | |||
| Host country | Portugal | ||
| Rally base | Matosinhos, Porto | ||
| Dates run | 19 – 22 May 2022 | ||
| Start location | Lousã, Coimbra | ||
| Finish location | Fafe, Braga | ||
| Stages | 21 (338 km; 210 miles) | ||
| Stage surface | Gravel | ||
| Transport distance | 1,188.35 km (738.41 miles) | ||
| Overall distance | 1,518.52 km (943.56 miles) | ||
| Statistics | |||
| Crews registered | 100 | ||
| Crews | 90 at start, 53 at finish | ||
| Overall results | |||
| Overall winner | Kalle Rovanperä Jonne Halttunen Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT 3:44:19.2 | ||
| Power Stage winner | Kalle Rovanperä Jonne Halttunen Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT 6:28.2 | ||
| Support category results | |||
| WRC-2 winner | Yohan Rossel Valentin Sarreaud PH Sport 3:58:08.1 | ||
| WRC-3 winner | Sami Pajari Enni Mälkönen 4:13:33.2 | ||
| J-WRC winner | Sami Pajari Enni Mälkönen 4:13:33.2 | ||
Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin were the defending rally winners. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the defending manufacturers' winners. Esapekka Lappi and Janne Ferm were the defending rally winners in the WRC-2 category. Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Maciej Szczepaniak were the defending rally winners in the WRC-3 category, with the Latvian crew of Mārtiņš Sesks and Francis Renars were the defending title-holders in the junior class.
Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen won a hat-trick victory. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, successfully defended their title. Yohan Rossel and Valentin Sarreaud won the World Rally Championship-2 category. Sami Pajari and Enni Mälkönen won the World Rally Championship-3 category as well as the junior class.