The Rally de Portugal is a rally competition held in Portugal. First held in 1967, the seventh running of the race, the 7º TAP Rallye de Portugal was the third event in the inaugural FIA World Rally Championship in 1973. The rally remained on the WRC calendar for the next 29 years, and after being dropped for 2002–2006, the event returned to Portugal in 2007. During the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, Rally de Portugal was a mixed event between asphalt and gravel. Currently it is an all-gravel event.
Marcus Grönholm driving a Ford Focus RS WRC 06 at the 2007 rally.
Sébastien Loeb with a Citroën DS3 WRC at the 2011 Rally de Portugal
Jari-Matti Latvala with a Ford Fiesta RS WRC at the 2011 Rally de Portugal
Andreas Mikkelsen and Ola Fløene driving an updated Polo R WRC at the 49º Rally de Portugal.
Rallying is a wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive motoring elements such as speed tests, navigation tests, or the ability to reach waypoints or a destination at a prescribed time or average speed. Rallies may be short in the form of trials at a single venue, or several thousand miles long in an extreme endurance rally.
Petter Solberg driving a Subaru Impreza WRC on gravel at the 2006 Cyprus Rally, a World Rally Championship event
Porsche Speedster in a regularity rally for historic vehicles, no additional safety equipment such as a roll cage or helmets are needed
Ford Focus on a road section of a WRC rally
Road rally passing through an urban setting
