2009 Rally de Portugal

2009 Rally de Portugal 43º Vodafone Rally de Portugal
Round 4 of the 2009 World Rally Championship ← Previous event Next event →
Stobart's Matthew Wilson during the rally.
Host country	Portugal
Rally base	Vilamoura
Dates run	2 April – 5 April 2009
Stages	18 (341.36 km; 212.11 miles)
Stage surface	gravel
Statistics
Crews	68 at start, 41 at finish
Overall results
Overall winner	Sébastien Loeb Citroën Total World Rally Team

The 2009 Vodafone Rally de Portugal was the 43rd running of the Rally Portugal and the fourth round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season. It took place between 2-5 April 2009 and consisted of 18 special stages.

The event was won by Citroën's Sébastien Loeb ahead of Ford's Mikko Hirvonen and Loeb's teammate Dani Sordo. Norwegian drivers Petter Solberg, his brother Henning Solberg and Mads Østberg took the following positions. The last point-scoring places went to Federico Villagra and Khalid al-Qassimi, after Evgeny Novikov crashed out from eighth place on stage 15, and fifth-placed Matthew Wilson and now eighth-placed Conrad Rautenbach both retired on the penultimate stage.

The early leader Jari-Matti Latvala had a big crash on the fourth stage, rolling his Ford Focus WRC 17 times over a distance of 150 metres. Marcus Grönholm, who came out of retirement to contest the rally in a Prodrive-prepared Subaru Impreza WRC, crashed out from fourth place on stage eight.

Results

Pos.	Driver	Co-driver	Car	Time	Difference	Points
WRC
1	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën C4 WRC	3:53:13.1	0.0	10
2	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	3:53:37.4	24.3	8
3	Dani Sordo	Marc Marti	Citroën C4 WRC	3:54:58.5	1:45.4	6
4	Petter Solberg	Phil Mills	Citroën Xsara WRC	3:55:57.7	2:44.6	5
5	Henning Solberg	Cato Menkerud	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	3:58:59.4	5:46.3	4
6	Mads Østberg	Ole Kristian Unnerud	Subaru Impreza WRC 08	3:59:33.9	6:20.8	3
7	Federico Villagra	Jose Diaz	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	4:06:12.6	12:59.5	2
8	Khalid al-Qassimi	Michael Orr	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	4:11:24.8	18:21.7	1
JWRC
1	Michal Kosciuszko	Maciek Szczepaniak	Suzuki Swift S1600	4:22:38.6	0.0	10
2	Kevin Abbring	Erwin Mombaerts	Renault Clio R3	4:28:45.1	6:06.5	8
3	Hans Weijs Jr.	Bjorn Degandt	Citroën C2 S1600	4:32:01.3	9:22.7	6
4	Luca Griotti	Corrado Bonato	Renault Clio R3	4:37:48.7	15:10.9	5
5	Alessandro Bettega	Simone Scattolin	Renault Clio R3	4:49:23.1	26:44.5	4
6	Simone Bertolotti	Luca Celestini	Suzuki Swift S1600	5:04:38.9	42:00.3	3
PWRC
1	Armindo Araujo	Miguel Ramalho	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	4:15:31.6	0.0	10
2	Martin Prokop	Jan Tománek	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	4:16:38.7	1:07.1	8
3	Eyvind Brynildsen	Denis Giraudet	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	4:16:44.7	1:13.1	6
4	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Giovanni Bernacchini	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	4:26:09.2	10:37.6	5
5	Mark Tapper	Jeff Rudd	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	4:41:21.2	25:49.6	4
6	Gianluca Linari	Andrea Cecchi	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	4:43:39.3	28:07.7	3
7	Gaurav Singh Gill	David Senior	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	4:46:25.3	30:53.7	2
8	Martin Semerád	Bohuslav Ceplecha	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	5:00:32.7	45:01.1	1

Special stages

Day	Stage	Time (WEST)	Name	Length	Winner	Time	Rally leader
1 (2-3 APR)	SS1	16:50	Estadio Algarve 1	2.21 km	Henning Solberg	2:09.6	Henning Solberg
	SS2	10:15	Ourique 1	23.42 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	14:26.9	Jari-Matti Latvala
	SS3	11:12	Silves 1	21.54 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	12:11.6
	SS4	11:55	Malhao 1	22.04 km	Sébastien Loeb	14:10.8	Daniel Sordo
	SS5	15:00	Ourique 2	23.42 km	Mikko Hirvonen	14:27.3	Mikko Hirvonen
	SS6	15:57	Silves 2	21.54 km	Daniel Sordo	12:09.8
	SS7	16:40	Malhao 2	22.04 km	Sébastien Loeb	14:06.6
2 (4 APR)	SS8	09:55	Santa Clara 1	22.61 km	Sébastien Loeb	13:52.3
	SS9	10:30	Almodovar 1	27.18 km	Sébastien Loeb	17:14.6	Sébastien Loeb
	SS10	11:40	Vascao 1	22.8 km	Sébastien Loeb	14:47.2
	SS11	14:50	Santa Clara 2	22.61 km	Sébastien Loeb	13:50.0
	SS12	15:25	Almodovar 2	27.18 km	Sébastien Loeb	17:20.3
	SS13	16:35	Vascao 2	22.8 km	Sébastien Loeb	14:40.6
3 (5 APR)	SS14	07:50	Loule 1	22.65 km	Sébastien Loeb	15:46.6
	SS15	08:45	S. Bras Alportel 1	16.23 km	Sébastien Loeb	11:40.1
	SS16	11:16	Loule 2	22.65 km	Mikko Hirvonen	15:34.9
	SS17	12:11	S. Bras Alportel 2	16.23 km	Mikko Hirvonen	11:36.0
	SS18	14:00	Estadio Algarve 2	2.21 km	Henning Solberg	2:08.8

External links

• Official site