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2017 Michelin FIA WRC

Ra lly2017 MAY 18»21 2017 de Portugal - 51ST RUNNING THURSDAY, MAY 18 7:30am Shakedown 4,60km 7:03pm SS1 Lousada 3,36km FRIDAY, MAY 19 8:40am Service/Tyre change, Matosinhos Exponor 15min 65 10:09am SS2 Viana do Castelo 26,70km 11:06am SS3 Caminha 18,10km entries 11:46am SS4 Ponte de Lima 27,46km 2:25pm Service/Tyre change, Matosinhos Exponor 30min 4:09pm SS5 Viana do Castelo 26,70km 1528,81km 5:06pm SS6 Caminha 18,10km including 349,17km 5:46pm SS7 Ponte de Lima 27,46km divided into 18 stages 7:03pm SS8 Braga Street Stage 1,90km TIMETABLE 7:28pm SS9 Braga Street Stage 1,90km 8:40pm Assistance Matosinhos Exponor 45min SATURDAY, MAY 20 7:15am Service/Tyre change, Matosinhos Exponor 15min 9:08am SS10 Vieira do Minho 17,43km 9:46am SS11 Cabeceiras do Basto 22,30km 11:04am SS12 Amarante 37,55km 1:00pm Service/Tyre change, Matosinhos Exponor 30min 3:08pm SS13 Vieira do Minho 17,43km 3:46pm SS14 Cabeceiras do Basto 22,30km 5:04pm SS15 Amarante 37,55km 6:45pm Service Matosinhos Exponor 45min SUNDAY, MAY 21 7:35am Service/Tyre change, Matosinhos Exponor 15min 9:08am SS16 Fafe 11,18km

9:30am SS17 Luilhas 11,91km SOURCE : WRC.COM - INFORMATION SUBJECT CHANGE TO 10:20am SS18 Montim 8,66km 12:18am SS19 Fafe 11,18km 1:50pm Service, Matosinhos Exponor 10min

2:20pm Finish, Matosinhos TIME (GMT - +1)

 FORMAT Jacques Morelli, Manager WRC Programme, 170km identical to 2016, 91km in Michelin Motorsport opposite direction and 111km new Based in north Portugal “After winning this year’s thriller in Argentina by seven- for third year running tenths of a second, the soft-compound LTX Force S5 is Caminha (SS3) and Ponte de Lima (SS4) poised to star once more on Portugal’s highly technical stages which tend to be covered by a layer of loose gravel were run in the opposite direction in 2016 first time through, while a hard-wearing base is exposed for SS8 and SS9 are on asphalt the second passes. It will be the LTX Force S5’s third chance 3 new stages: SS11/14 (22.30km), to showcase its strength and versatility since its launch in SS17 (11.91km), SS18 (8.66km) Mexico two months ago.”

Chief characteristics MICHELIN TYRES FOR 2017 Rally de Portugal’s stages are very technical and varied. They can be flowing or twisty and are covered with a coating of loose dirt that wrc : 3 WRC quota: 28 tyres MICHELIN LTX Force from a total allocation tend to hinder the first crews on the road first of 28 softs and 16 hards time through. On the second passes, the hard- packed ground and stones put big demands on 3 1,760 tyres trucked to the event tyres. 3 S5 H4 5 semi-trailers (soft) (HARD) (2 stores trucks, 2 Rally de workshop trucks, 1 office) Portugal 3 2½ days travel from Clermont-Ferrand, France For many years, Rally de Portugal was a mixed-surface asphalt/gravel event In 2007, after a six-year absence, Rally de MICHELIN Portugal returned to the WRC calendar based in the Algarve region in the south of the country AND Rally de Portugal In 2015, Rally de Portugal returned Michelin has won Rally de Portugal 20 times to the Porto region as a WRC qualifying round In 2010, Sébastien Ogier scored his maiden There was a gap of 10 years between Michelin’s first WRC win in Portugal and second wins in Portugal! This year is the 38th Rally de Portugal to count towards the WRC Michelin and monopolised the top five places on the 1990 Rally de Portugal Joaquim Moutinho is the only Portuguese driver to have won a WRC round

MISCELLANEOUS The start ceremony takes place in Guimaraes, “birthplace of the Portuguese nationality and language” The service park is based in the Exponor exhibition centre in Porto’s northern suburb Matosinhos  TEAMS / DRIVERS For the first time, the factory teams have entered three 2017-generation World Rally Cars CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE LATEST VIDEOS The event is mandatory for WRC2-registered FROM RALLY DE PORTUGAL drivers A fifth victory for Sébastien Ogier would take him level with Markku Alèn’s Rally de Portugal record

 M-SPORT WORLD RALLY TEAM WRC # 1 OGIER Sébastien / INGRASSIA Julien FRA / FRA FORD FIESTA WRC

M-SPORT WORLD RALLY TEAM WRC # 2 TANAK Ott / JARVEOJA Martin EST / EST FORD FIESTA WRC

M-SPORT WORLD RALLY TEAM WRC # 3 EVANS Elfyn / BARRITT Daniel GBR / GBR FORD FIESTA WRC

HYUNDAI MOTORSPORT WRC # 4 PADDON Hayden / KENNARD John NZL / NZL COUPE WRC

HYUNDAI MOTORSPORT WRC # 5 NEUVILLE Thierry / GILSOUL Nicolas BEL / BEL HYUNDAI i20 COUPE WRC

HYUNDAI MOTORSPORT WRC # 6 SORDO Dani / MARTI Marc ESP / ESP HYUNDAI i20 COUPE WRC

CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT WRC # 7 MEEKE Kris / NAGLE Paul GBR / IRL CITROEN C3 WRC

WRC Entry List CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT # 8 BREEN Craig / MARTIN Scott IRL / GBR CITROEN C3 WRC

CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT WRC # 9 LEFEBVRE Stéphane / MOREAU Gabin FRA / FRA CITROEN C3 WRC

TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRC WRC # 10 LATVALA Jari-Matti / ANTTILA Miikka FIN / FIN YARIS WRC

TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRC WRC FLASHBACK # 11 HANNINEN Juho / LINDSTROM Kaj FIN / FIN TO 2016 TOYOTA YARIS WRC WINNERS: TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRC WRC # 12 LAPPI Esapekka / FERM Janne FIN / FIN / TOYOTA YARIS WRC ( DS3 WRC/Michelin)

M-SPORT WORLD RALLY TEAM WRC # 14 OSTBERG Mads / FLOENE Ola NOR / NOR FORD FIESTA WRC

CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT WRC # 15 AL QASSIMI Sheik Khalid / PATTERSON Chris ARE / GBR CITROEN C3 WRC

ONEBET JIPOCAR WORLD RALLY TEAM STAGE WINNERS: # 21 PROKOP Martin / TOMÁNEK Jan CZE / CZE Meeke 8 - Ogier & Mikkelsen FORD FIESTA RS WRC 4 – Neuville 2 – Latvala 1 EUROLAMP WORLD RALLY TEAM WRC # 22 GORBAN Valeriy / LARENS Sergei UKR / EST LEADERS: BMW-Mini JCW ES1 Ogier – ES2 à 19 Meeke

JEAN-MICHEL RAOUX WRC 3 25 th WRC victory for a Citroën # 23 RAOUX Jean-Michel / ESCARTEFIGUE Thomas FRA / FRA CITROEN C3 WRC DS3 WRC on Michelin tyres 3 Thierry Neuville runs out of fuel  THE FULL ENTRY LIST HERE​

 Drivers STANDINGS

Rally Monte-Carlo Sweden Mexico France Argentina Portugal Italia Poland Finland Germany Spain Great Britain Australia POINTS 19/01 > 22/01 9/02 > 12/02 9/03 > 12/03 6/04 > 9/04 27/04 > 30/04 18/05 > 21/05 8/06 > 11/06 29/06 > 2/07 27/07 > 30/07 17/08 > 20/08 5/10 > 8/10 26/10 > 29/10 16/11 > 19/11

25 15+4 18+4 18+4 12+2 1 Sébastien OGIER (1) (3) (2) (2) (4) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 102

18 25+5 8+2 12+5 10+1 2 Jari-Matti LATVALA (2) (1) (6) (4) (5) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 86

5 3 15+5 25+1 25+5 3 (15) (13) (3) (1) (1) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 84

15 18 12+3 0 15+3 4 Ott TANAK (3) (2) (4) (11) (3) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 66

12+1 12 4+1 15+2 4 5 (4) (4) (8) (3) (8) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 51

8+2 8 2 0 18+4 6 (6) (6) (9) (21) (2) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 42

7 10 10 10+3 (5) (5) (-) (5) (R) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 33

8 6+1 10 8 8 (R) (7) (5) (6) (6) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 33

9 2 25 Kris MEEKE (R) (12) (1) (R) (R) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 27

10 3 6 6 Juho HANNINEN (16) (-) (7) (R) (7) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 15

11 6 6 (7) (-) (-) (7) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 12

12 2+4 4 0 0 Stéphane LEFEBVRE (9) (8) (15) (50) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) (-) 10

WRC2 drivers 1. Pontus TIDEMAND 75 pts 2. Andreas MIKKELSEN 50 pts 3. Eric CAMILLI 46 pts 4. 36 pts 5. Benito GUERRA 30 pts

Manufacturers 1. M-Sport World Rally Team 162 pts 2. Hyundai Motorsport 140 pts 3. Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT 99 pts 4. Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT 71 pts

 Michelin WRC range THE 2017 WRC 2017 season REGULATIONS

New- generation

ASPHALT TYRES : WINTRY World Rally michelin pILOT SPORT ASPHALT: Cars michelin ALPIN 4 More powerful (380hp), 25kg lighter, active

central differential, new

aerodynamic package

Start orders

H5 (hard compound) S5 (soft compound) Day 1 in 2017 Drivers’ Size : 20/65-18 Size : 20/65-18 Conditions: dry stages Conditions: wet, cold conditions non-studded championship order, then

reverse order of overnight

classification

Manufacturers can nominate up to three cars SS5 (super soft compound) FW3 (Full Wet) studded Size : 20/65-18 Size : 18/65-18 with the two best-placed cars Conditions: icy, frosty, damp, Conditions: showers, standing Size : 18/65-18 cold conditions water or heavy rain Conditions: ice and/or snow to score Manufacturer points.

points

1st, 25 points • 2nd, 18 points GRAVEL TYRES : SNOW/ICE TYRE : rd th michelin LTX FORCE michelin X-ICE 3 15 points • 4 , 12 points NORTH 5th, 10 points • 6th, 8 points

7th, 6 points • 8th, 4 points

9th, 2 points • 10th, 1 point

Power Stage points

1st, 5 points • 2nd, 4 points H4 (hard compound) S5 (soft compound) Size : 17/65-15 Size : 17/65-15 X-Ice North 3 3rd, 3 points • 4th, 2 points Conditions: rough, rocky, Conditions: smooth, loose Size : 15/65-15 abrasive surfaces surfaces, mud Conditions: ice and/or snow 5th, 1 point.

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