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Rally Portugal 2011 counts for:
2011 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2011 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2011 FIA Production Car World Rally Championship (for drivers)
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| 482nd WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 3 of 13 |
| Official name: | Vodafone Rally de Portugal |
| Edition: | 45th |
| Date: | from Thursday 24-Mar-2011 to Sunday 27-Mar-2011 |
| Rally HQ: | Almancil, Algarve; Portugal |
| Clerk of the Course: | Pedro de Almeida |
| Surface: | Gravel |
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| Entries: | 75 | |
| Starters: | 72 | |
| Finishers: | 38 | (52.8% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 17 | |
| Shortest: | 3.27 | km | (SS1 SSS Lisboa) |
| Longest: | 31.04 | km | (SS17 Santana da Serra 2) |
| Slowest: | 69.41 | km/h | (SS1 SSS Lisboa) |
| Fastest: | 105.12 | km/h | (SS16 Silves 2) |
| Planned stage distance: | 385.37 | km | (28.3% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 385.37 | km | (28.3% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 978.18 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,363.55 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 3rd win and 8th podium for Sebastien Ogier. |
| Second place was 96th podium for Sebastien Loeb. |
| Third place was 20th podium for Jari-Matti Latvala. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 72nd win and 1-2 win were 173rd to 174th podiums for Citroen. |
| | Third place was 284th podium for Ford. |
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Building upon his last year's win in Portugal and exploiting other's misfortunes as well, Ogier was fastest when it mattered and scored his 3rd win.
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Loeb lost chances to challenge Ogier when Hirvonen got puncture, changed it real quick and started just in front of Loeb who suffered from the dust and lost 30 secs.
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Though Matthew Wilson wasn't fastest Ford, his fifth overall was exceptionally good result for him.
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