Tuesday, 26 May 2015

2015 WRC Round 5 recap - Rally de Portugal

Recap of the last round of WRC from this weekends Round five of Rally de Portugal.

Last weekends was the fifth round of the World Rally Championship at the Rally de Portugal (22nd-24th May) was won by Jari-Matti Latvala in the works Volkswagen Polo R WRC. While, his team-mate and current WRC champion Sébastien Ogier finished in second place in the works Volkswagen Polo R WRC, Ogier was 43 seconds behind Latvala at the end. Meanwhile, Andreas Mikkelsen finished third in the third works Volkswagen Polo R WRC to complete a Volkswagen podium whitewash. Mikkelsen was 28 seconds behind Latvala at the end of the rally.

Meanwhile in WRC-2 class (Group R5, R4, Super 2000 and Group N4 spec cars), that was won by Nasser Al-Attiyah in his own backed Ford Fiesta RRC. Nasser Al-Attiyah finished in eleventh place overall, he was 11 minutes behind Latvala at the end of the rally.

While in WRC-3 class (Group R1, R2 and R3 cars) that was won by Quentin Gilbert in his own backed Citroën DS3 R3T. Quentin Gilbert finished in twenty-second place overall, he was over 33 minutes behind Latvala at the end of the rally.

Highlights of the rally bellow, enjoy.



End of blog for now. New post soon. Bye.

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