Route Preview: Rally Portugal 2023

Rally Portugal is a classic WRC event with technical but relatively smooth and fast roads. Its route has remained quite unchanged in the recent years. This time there’s one half-new forest stage, one reversed one as wel as one new super special with also some shuffling of stages between Saturday and Sunday. In addition, three of the forest stages are single-run.

Route Preview: Rally Portugal 2022

The gravel debut of Rally1 cars will happen on Rally Portugal, one of the WRC classics. It’s known for not updating its route every year and such is the case this year when most of the route is identical to last year, with just small changes on one forest stage and the shakedown, as well as addition of a new opening super special. Curiously the three first events of the season didn’t include a super special, but this one will have three separate ones!

Route Preview: Rally Portugal 2021

Rally Portugal is one of the classics of WRC. Like many events, it was cancelled last year because of COVID-19, but the 2020 route will be used this year with small updates. Portugal can be classified as a technical, hot and dusty gravel rally, but it’s the fastest and one of the smoothest out of […]

Route Preview: Rally Portugal 2019

Rally Portugal is one of the classic gravel rallies of the WRC calendar. For this year it has dusted off some classic stage material not used in decades. The Portuguese WRC event is based in the city of Matosinhos, near Porto on the North-West Atlantic coast of the country. However, the ceremonial start is in the […]

Route Preview: Rally de Portugal 2018

lThe route for Rally Portugal 2018 is almost exactly the same as the year before. But let’s still look at the stages, latest incidents and the history of the whole rally.