The Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2025 will have 95 starting teams, 12 in Rally1 category cars and 55 in the Rally2.
It’s the biggest and best WRC entry list of the year! Four days of great excitement and spectacle in prospect, with many thousands of spectators spread across the 24 qualifiers in the centre and North of the country.
The 58th edition of the event, which will be held between May 15 and 18, will feature 12 cars from the most competitive Rally1 category, one of which will be for Diogo Salvi, who will drive the Ford Puma Rally1 integrated into the M-Sport structure. Since 2012, a Portuguese driver has not driven a car in the main category of the World Rally Championship.
Any driver wants to have the Portuguese event on their CV, so it is no surprise that the 2025 edition has the best and largest entry list of the year, when compared to the Monte Carlo, Sweden, Safari and Canary Islands rallies.
There are 95 teams registered for the Vodafone Rally de Portugal, including 13 Portuguese drivers, a number well above the 70 registered for Monte-Carlo or the 63 competitors in the Spanish event.
With 12 Rally1s at the start, the show is guaranteed in the selective and demanding qualifying rounds of the event organised by the Automóvel Club de Portugal (ACP), to which 55 more Rally2s are added!
World champion Toyota is fielding four GR Yaris Rally1s in official colours for Elfyn Evans, Sébastien Ogier, Kalle Rovanperä and Takamoto Katsuta, although only the top three will score points for the constructors’ championship. Gazoo Racing’s lineup is a luxury one, with eight-time world champion Ogier, two-time champion Rovanperä and current championship leader Evans. Last year’s WRC2 champion Sami Pajari lines up in a factory-spec GR Yaris entered by Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT2.
Hyundai Motorsport has entered three i20 N Rally1s for world champion Thierry Neuville, Ott Tänak and Adrien Fourmaux, a trio that will score points towards the manufacturer’s championship.
The British team M-Sport Ford presents an expanded line-up for the Portuguese race. In addition to the official drivers Grégoire Munster and Josh McErlean, the Latvian Mārtiņš Sesks and the Portuguese Diogo Salvi, who is making his debut at the wheel of a car in the main category, will be at the wheel of the Ford Puma Rally1.
WRC2 is even more competitive this year. In Portugal, 56 pilots are registered, which suggests an attractive spectacle. Names such as Oliver Solberg (Toyota GR Yaris), Gus Greensmith (Skoda Fabia RS), Kajetan Kajetanowicz (Toyota GR Yaris), Nikolay Gryazin (Skoda Fabia RS), Jan Solans (Toyota GR Yaris) and brothers Yohan and Léo Rossel (Citroën C3) are among the favourites, but other candidates for victory in the category should not be overlooked.
It is worth highlighting the participation of Kris Meeke (Toyota GR Yaris) and Dani Sordo (Hyundai i20 N), two former WRC drivers who compete in the Brazilian Championship with a Rally2. It is in this category that the main national pilots appear. Armindo Araújo (Skoda Fabia RS), Ricardo Teodósio (Toyota GR Yaris), José Pedro Fontes (Citroën C3), Pedro Meireles (Skoda Fabia RS), Pedro Almeida (Skoda Fabia RS) and Gonçalo Henriques (Hyundai i20N), among others, will fight for points for the championship, while showing their worth against the world’s rally elite.
Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2025 Entry List
The rally consists of three stages and 24 special qualifying rounds, covering a total of 344.5 km against the clock. This year’s new features appear in the first stage, the longest of the rally, with the Águeda/Sever do Vouga and Sever do Vouga/Albergaria-a-Velha sections. In the second stage, the return of Vieira do Minho must be noted. Before the competition begins in earnest, the drivers have a Skakedown in Baltar to make the final adjustments to the cars.
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