The 2023 Portuguese Rally Championship is yet another season on national rally championship in Portugal. Armindo Araujo is the reigning drivers champion.
Competitions Main championship - for all cars, with R5/Rally2 the highest class eligible Portugal 2RM - for all two-wheel drive cars Rally&You Portugal Cup - for local drivers using Peugeot 208 Rally4 or 208 R2 cars.
Calendar The 2023 season is contested over eight rounds across entire Portugal. RoundStart dateFinish dateRallyRally headquartersSurfaceStagesDistanceRef.110 March12 March Rally Serras de Fafe e FelgueirasFafe, BragaGravel17180.29 km2March 31April 1 Rallye Casinos do AlgarveLagoa, AlgarveGravel9107,38 km3April 28April 29 Rali Terras d'AboboreiraAmarante, Tâmega e SousaGravel999,18 km4May 11May 14 Rally de PortugalMatosinhos, Porto DistrictGravel19325,35 km5June 30July 1 Rali de Castelo BrancoCastelo Branco, Central PortugalTarmac12101,82 km6August 3August 5 Rali Vinho da MadeiraFunchal, MadeiraTarmacTBATBA7September 15September 16 Rali da AguaChaves, District of Vila RealTarmacTBATBA8October 13October 14 Rallye VidreiroMarinha Grande, LeiriaTarmacTBATBASources:
Entry list Rally2 Rally2 entries Car used Entrant Number Driver Co-Driver Tyres Rounds Citroën C3 Rally2 Citroen Vodafone Team 6 Jose Pedro Fontes Ines Ponte 1-5 Sports&You 4 Bernardo Sousa Ines Veiga 1-2 Jose Janela 3-5 20 Paulo Caldeira Ana Goncalves 1-3 Ford Fiesta Rally2 Racing 4 You 12 Lucas Simoes Nuno Almeida 1-3 4 Ford Fiesta R5 5 Ricardo Filipe Filipe Carvalho 1-3, 5 Hyundai i20 N Rally2 Team Hyundai Portugal 24 Ricardo Teodosio Jose Teixeira 1-5 42 Craig Breen James Fulton 1-2 77 Kris Meeke Ola Floene 3 James Fulton 4-5 Hyundai N/M&Costas 10 Pedro Meireles Pedro Alves 1-5 45 Paulo Meireles Marco Goncalves 2-3 Škoda Fabia RS Rally2 Team Armindo Araujo / The Racing Factory 1 Armindo Araujo Luis Ramalho 5 Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo 1, 3 4 The Racing Factory 15 Pedro Almeida Mario Castro 1-4 ARC Sport 9 Paulo Neto Nuno Mota 1-3 15 Miguel Correia Jorge Eduardo Carvalho 1-3, 5 4 Škoda Fabia R5 Diogo Salvi 22 Diogo Salvi Hugo Magalhaes 2-3 Antonio Costa 4
Rally2 changes Bruno Magalhaes left the championship and Team Hyundai Portugal. He was replaced by WRC Hyundai driver Craig Breen. After Breen's death in pre-event testing before Rally Croatia, the second seat at THP was taken by his close friend and former Citroen factory driver Kris Meeke. Hyundai also used a special livery in memory of Breen during Rali Terras d'Aboboreira. Lucas Simoes switched from running a Hyundai i20 R5 to a Ford Fiesta Rally2. Former SWRC driver Bernardo Sousa returned to the championship after taking part in the Portuguese edition of Big Brother.
Portugal 2RM
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