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| 2012 Rally Portugal 46º Rally de Portugal | |||
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Round 4 of the 2012 World Rally Championship season
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 Dani Sordo during Rally | |||
| Host country |  Portugal | ||
| Rally base | Faro, Portugal | ||
| Dates run | 29 March – 1 April 2012 | ||
| Stages | 22 (434.77 km; 270.15 miles) | ||
| Stage surface | Gravel | ||
| Statistics | |||
| Crews | 49 at start, 30 at finish | ||
The 2012 Rally de Portugal was the fourth round of the 2012 World Rally Championship season and was based in Faro, Portugal. It started with a street stage in Lisbon on 29 March and concluded on 1 April after twenty-two special stages, totalling 434 competitive kilometres.
Report
Before the rally
The rally was preceded by the "Fafe Rally Sprint", a single-stage exhibition event run over the famous Fafe stages in the country's north which was won by Ford World Rally Team driver Petter Solberg.[1] Solberg's team-mate, Jari-Matti Latvala won the rally's qualifying stage on the Wednesday before the start of the rally.[2] Latvala elected to run seventeenth on the road as a result; by contrast, Citroën Total World Rally Team drivers Mikko Hirvonen and Sébastien Loeb elected to run first and second respectively.[3]
Results
Event standings
- ^† – The WRC Academy features only the first 13 stages of the rally.
Special stages
| Day | Stage | Time (UTC+1) | Name | Length | Winner | Time | Avg. spd. | Rally leader |
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| Leg 1 (29 Mar) |
SS1 | 15:00 | SSS Lisboa | 3.27 km |  Petter Solberg
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2:57.1 | 66.47 km/h | Petter Solberg
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| SS2 | 20:19 | Gomes Aires | 10.19 km | Petter Solberg
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6:38.1 | 92.15 km/h | ||
| SS3 | 20:49 | Santa Clara | 14.29 km |  Jari-Matti Latvala
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8:34.4 | 100.01 km/h | Jari-Matti Latvala
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| SS4 | 21:25 | Ourique | 11.10 km |  Ott Tänak
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6:45.5 | 98.55 km/h | ||
| Leg 2 (30 Mar) |
SS5 | 12:01 | Tavira 1 | 25.01 km |  Dani Sordo
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17:55.3 | 83.73 km/h | Petter Solberg
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| SS6 | 12:36 | Alcarias 1 | 25.15 km | Dani Sordo
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20:14.7 | 74.54 km/h | Mikko Hirvonen1
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| SS7 | 13:28 | S. Brás de Alportel 1 | 16.18 km | Dani Sordo
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13:11.7 | 73.57 km/h | ||
| SS8 | 15:56 | Tavira 2 | 25.01 km | stages cancelled due to poor weather[4] | ||||
| SS9 | 16:31 | Alcarias 2 | 25.15 km | |||||
| SS10 | 17:23 | S. Brás de Alportel 2 | 16.18 km | |||||
| Leg 3 (31 Mar) |
SS11 | 09:49 | Almodovar 1 | 26.22 km | Dani Sordo
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16:30.8 | 95.27 km/h | |
| SS12 | 10:43 | Vascao 1 | 25.29 km | Petter Solberg
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17:03.5 | 88.95 km/h | ||
| SS13 | 11:33 | Loulé 1 | 22.57 km | Petter Solberg
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15:49.7 | 85.56 km/h | ||
| SS14 | 14:39 | Almodovar 2 | 26.22 km | Petter Solberg
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16:06.9 | 97.62 km/h | ||
| SS15 | 15:33 | Vascao 2 | 25.29 km | Petter Solberg
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16:16.5 | 93.24 km/h | ||
| SS16 | 16:23 | Loulé 2 | 22.57 km | Dani Sordo
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15:25.0 | 87.84 km/h | ||
| Leg 4 (1 Apr) |
SS17 | 07:59 | Silves 1 | 21.42 km | Jari-Matti Latvala
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12:01.2 | 106.92 km/h | |
| SS18 | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=2012_Rally_de_Portugal||||||||