Rally de Portugal 2011

[Sardalense]

Next year´s Rally de Portugal will start thursday, March 24th, in Lisbon with a SSS. The rally will re-start friday in the usual region of Algarve. The SSS will be in front of "Mosteiro dos Jerónimos", where the Dakar started in 2006 and 2007.

Map of the SSS: http://postimage.org/image/eovfcgas/

[Sardalense]

2011 Schedule

19 or 20.03.2011 - Porto Road Show

21 and 22.03.2011 - Recconnaissance

23.03.2011 - Shakedown (0800-1300)

24.03.2011 - SSS Lisboa (1800)

25.03.2011 - LEG 1

0905 - SS2 Santa Clara 1 (22,99 km)
0953 - SS3 Ourique 1 (20,27 km)
1106 - SS4 Felizes 1 (21,31 km)

1425 - SS5 Santa Clara 2
1513 - SS6 Ourique 2
1626 - SS7 Felizes 2

26.03.2011 - LEG 2

1017 - SS8 Almodôvar 1 (26,23 km)
1110 - SS9 Vascão 1 (25,26 km)
1200 - SS10 Loulé 1 (22,56 km)

1502 - SS11 Almodôvar 2
1555 - SS12 Vascão 2
1645 - SS13 Loulé 2

27.03.2011 - LEG 3

0734 - SS14 Silves 1 (21,39 km)
0827 - SS15 Santana da Serra 1 (31,04 km)

1155 - SS16 Silves 2
1252 - SS17 Santana da Serra 2

Total distance: 1360,14 km
SS distance: 385,25 km

[Sardalense]

Update:

24.03.2011 - SSS Lisboa (1530)

[AndyRAC]

Not a very interesting route - hasn't anybody told the organisers you can have a 2-4 day events with less repeated stages.
How many other events will stay the same?

[General Prim]

Why not to put some stages from Faro to Lisbon, and opposite in order to have more kms as Jean Todt said?
One day more with no action for everybody, more $$$ for hotels, rent-a-car, etc, etc
No sense

[Motorsportfun]

Agree

[Francis44]

Not a very interesting route - hasn't anybody told the organisers you can have a 2-4 day events with less repeated stages.
How many other events will stay the same?

Algarve isn't really a busy region outside of Summer months so they tried as much as they could to keep stages on weekend so that people from the North and Centre can watch the rally without taking more than 1 or 2 days from work, plus there are some new stages and some changes in the route.

And before Alentejo and near Lisbon there are not many roads to use as stages, without considering of course Sintra, near Lisbon, but that is impossible since those roads would be filled and most of the stages cancelled by the large numbers of spectators.

[mdesign]

I like the new SSS, at least the pictures will be very good on that scenario... The fact that its all 300m from my house is also interesting :P

[Sardalense]

Update:

23.03.2011 - Shakedown (1430-1930) instead of (0800-1300).

[Seppala]

I lately added the stage maps of the Rally Portugal 2011 to my database.
You can find them along with other useful stuff like stage elevation diagrams here:

• Rally de Portugal 2011 - interactive stage maps[/*:m:2f7bxsc6]
• Rally de Portugal 2011 - 3D stage tour[/*:m:2f7bxsc6]