2013 Rally de Portugal
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| 2013 Rally Portugal 47º Rally de Portugal | |||
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Round 4 of the 2013 World Rally Championship season
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.jpg) Andreas Mikkelsen during Rally | |||
| Host country |  Portugal | ||
| Rally base | Faro, Portugal | ||
| Dates run | April 11 – April 14, 2013 | ||
| Stages | 15 (386.73 km; 240.30 miles) | ||
| Stage surface | Gravel | ||
| Overall distance | 163,092 km (101,341 miles) | ||
| Statistics | |||
| Crews | 70 at start, 38 (+ 8 J-WRC) at finish | ||
| Overall results | |||
| Overall winner |  Sébastien Ogier Volkswagen Motorsport | ||
The 2013 Rally de Portugal was the fourth round of the 2013 World Rally Championship season. The event was based in Faro, Portugal, and started on 11 April and was concluded on 14 April after fifteen special stages, totaling 387 competitive kilometres, including a street stage in Lisbon on 12 April.
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 Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT driver Dani Sordo.[1] Dani Sordo won the rally's qualifying stage (5 km) and elected to run thirteenth (last WRC) on the road as a result. His strategy was followed by all competitors, resulting in an inverted starting order for the rally's first day.
Entry list
Thirteen World Rally Cars were entered into the event, as were twenty entries in the newly formed WRC-2 championship for cars built to Group N and Super 2000 regulations and nine WRC-3 entries. There was also ten entries in the debut of the Junior WRC.[2]
