2009 Rally de Portugal

2009 Rally de Portugal 43º Vodafone Rally de Portugal 4 2009 World Rally Championship 2009 Cyprus Rally 2009 Rally Argentina Portugal Portugal Eddie Stobart motorsport number 5 Wilson Portugal Rally 2009.jpg Stobart's Matthew Wilson during the rally. Vilamoura 2 April 5 April 2009 18 341.36 gravel FRA Sébastien Loeb FRA Citroën Total World Rally Team 68 41 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.http://www.rallydeportugal.pt/index.php?template_id=333&MIT=3614 Four in a row for Sebastien Loeb in Portugal 2009-04-05 Rally De Portugal Official Site 2009-04-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20090413042739/http://www.rallydeportugal.pt/index.php?template_id=333&MIT=3614 April 13, 2009 dead Results Pos.DriverCo-driverCarTimeDifferencePoints WRC 1 FRA Sébastien Loeb MON Daniel Elena Citroën C4 WRC 3:53:13.1 0.0 10 2 FIN Mikko Hirvonen FIN Jarmo Lehtinen Ford Focus RS WRC 08 3:53:37.4 24.3 8 3 ESP Dani Sordo ESP Marc Marti Citroën C4 WRC 3:54:58.5 1:45.4 6 4 NOR Petter Solberg UK Phil Mills Citroën Xsara WRC 3:55:57.7 2:44.6 5 5 NOR Henning Solberg NOR Cato Menkerud Ford Focus RS WRC 08 3:58:59.4 5:46.3 4 6 NOR Mads Østberg NOR Ole Kristian Unnerud Subaru Impreza WRC 08 3:59:33.9 6:20.8 3 7 ARG Federico Villagra ARG Jose Diaz Ford Focus RS WRC 08 4:06:12.6 12:59.5 2 8 UAE Khalid al-Qassimi UK Michael Orr Ford Focus RS WRC 08 4:11:24.8 18:21.7 1 JWRC 1 POL Michal Kosciuszko POL Maciek Szczepaniak Suzuki Swift S1600 4:22:38.6 0.0 10 2 NED Kevin Abbring NED Erwin Mombaerts Renault Clio R3 4:28:45.1 6:06.5 8 3 NED Hans Weijs Jr. BEL Bjorn Degandt Citroën C2 S1600 4:32:01.3 9:22.7 6 4 ITA Luca Griotti ITA Corrado Bonato Renault Clio R3 4:37:48.7 15:10.9 5 5 ITA Alessandro Bettega ITA Simone Scattolin Renault Clio R3 4:49:23.1 26:44.5 4 6 ITA Simone Bertolotti ITA Luca Celestini Suzuki Swift S1600 5:04:38.9 42:00.3 3 PWRC 1 POR Armindo Araujo POR Miguel Ramalho Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 4:15:31.6 0.0 10 2 CZE Martin Prokop CZE Jan Tománek Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 4:16:38.7 1:07.1 8 3 NOR Eyvind Brynildsen FRA Denis Giraudet Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 4:16:44.7 1:13.1 6 4 QAT Nasser Al-Attiyah ITA Giovanni Bernacchini Subaru Impreza WRX STi 4:26:09.2 10:37.6 5 5 AUS Mark Tapper NZL Jeff Rudd Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 4:41:21.2 25:49.6 4 6 ITA Gianluca Linari ITA Andrea Cecchi Subaru Impreza WRX STi 4:43:39.3 28:07.7 3 7 IND Gaurav Singh Gill UK David Senior Subaru Impreza WRX STi 4:46:25.3 30:53.7 2 8 CZE Martin Semerád CZE Bohuslav Ceplecha Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 5:00:32.7 45:01.1 1 Special stages DayStageTime (WEST)NameLengthWinnerTimeRally leader 1(2-3 APR) SS1 16:50 Estadio Algarve 1 2.21 km NOR Henning Solberg 2:09.6 NOR Henning Solberg SS2 10:15 Ourique 1 23.42 km FIN Jari-Matti Latvala 14:26.9 FIN Jari-Matti Latvala SS3 11:12 Silves 1 21.54 km FIN Jari-Matti Latvala 12:11.6 SS4 11:55 Malhao 1 22.04 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 14:10.8 Spain Daniel Sordo SS5 15:00 Ourique 2 23.42 km FIN Mikko Hirvonen 14:27.3 FIN Mikko Hirvonen SS6 15:57 Silves 2 21.54 km Spain Daniel Sordo 12:09.8 SS7 16:40 Malhao 2 22.04 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 14:06.6 2(4 APR) SS8 09:55 Santa Clara 1 22.61 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 13:52.3 SS9 10:30 Almodovar 1 27.18 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 17:14.6 FRA Sébastien Loeb SS10 11:40 Vascao 1 22.8 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 14:47.2 SS11 14:50 Santa Clara 2 22.61 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 13:50.0 SS12 15:25 Almodovar 2 27.18 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 17:20.3 SS13 16:35 Vascao 2 22.8 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 14:40.6 3(5 APR) SS14 07:50 Loule 1 22.65 kmFRA Sébastien Loeb 15:46.6 SS15 08:45 S. Bras Alportel 1 16.23 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 11:40.1 SS16 11:16 Loule 2 22.65 km FIN Mikko Hirvonen 15:34.9 SS17 12:11 S. Bras Alportel 2 16.23 kmFIN Mikko Hirvonen 11:36.0 SS18 14:00 Estadio Algarve 2 2.21 km NOR Henning Solberg 2:08.8 References External links Official site Portugal Category:Rally de Portugal Rally Portugal Category:April 2009 sports events in Portugal