Le Rally The 2026 Portugal Rally will be remembered as one of the most challenging rallies of the 2026 season. WRCThe incessant rain, mud and hellish conditions reshuffled the cards several times throughout the weekend, making and unmaking the hierarchies special stage after special stage. Thierry NeuvilleWhile he only managed two fastest stage times, he wasn’t necessarily the most impressive, but he managed to avoid the pitfalls where his rivals successively faltered. He finished the race in 3:53:01.7, 16,3 seconds ahead of Oliver Solberg and 29,1 seconds ahead of Elfyn Evans.
The biggest victim is Sébastien OgierLeading until SS22, the penultimate stage of the rally, the driver from Gap suffered a puncture that dashed his hopes of victory in a matter of seconds. The previous day, during SS17, he had seemed to have the race firmly in hand, building a lead of over eleven seconds on the rest of the field. He ultimately finished sixth. Adrien fourmaux, fourth, finishes with his head held high, but above all with the victory on the Power Stage and five additional points in the standings.
In the championship standings, Elfyn Evans remains the leader with 123 points, twelve points ahead of Takamoto Katsuta and 31 ahead of Oliver Solberg in third. Sébastien Ogier, in sixth place, failed to make a successful return to the title race despite a near-perfect performance. In WRC2, Finland’s Teemu Suninen took the win ahead of Nikolay Gryazin, while Yohan Rossel’s off-road excursion in SS17 dashed his podium hopes.
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WRC 2026 – Driver Standings
1) Elfyn Evans (Toyota) – 123 points (15+4+3)
2) Takamoto Katsuta (Toyota) – 111 points (10+2)
3) Oliver Solberg (Toyota) – 92 points (17+5+2)
4) Adrien Fourmaux (Hyundai) – 79 points (12+3+5)
5) Sami Pajari (Toyota) – 78 points (6+0)
6) Sébastien Ogier (Toyota) – 67 points (8+0+1)
7) Thierry Neuville (Hyundai) – 65 points (25+1+4)
8) Esapekka Lappi (Hyundai) – 21 points
9) Yohan Rossel (Lancia) – 20 points
10) Léo Rossel (Citroën) – 18 points
11) Hayden Paddon (Hyundai) – 15 points
12) Robert Virves (Škoda) – 10 points
13) Dani Sordo – 10 points (4+0)
14) Jon Armstrong (Ford) – 10 points (R)
15) Gus Greensmith (Toyota) – 8 points
16) Nikolay Gryazin (Lancia) – 8 points
17) Alejandro Cachon (Toyota) – 7 points
18) Fabrizio Zaldívar (Škoda) – 6 points
19) Roberto Daprà (Škoda) – 6 points
20) Josh McErlean (Ford) – 6 points (0+0)
21) Roope Korhonen (Toyota) – 5 points
22) Andreas Mikkelsen – 4 points
23) Diego Domínguez (Toyota) – 2 points
24) Arthur Pelamourgues (Hyundai) – 2 points
25) Mārtiņš Sesks (Ford) – 2 points (2+0)
26) Matteo Fontana (Ford) – 2 points
27) Teemu Suninen (Toyota) – 1 point (1+0)
28) Éric Camilli (Škoda) – 1 point
29) Emil Lindholm (Škoda) – 1 point
30) Grégoire Munster (Ford) – 0 points
31) Romet Jürgenson (Ford) – 0 points
32) Lorenzo Bertolli (Toyota) – 0 points
WRC 2026 – Manufacturers’ Standings
1) Toyota – 311 points
2) Hyundai – 218 points
3) Toyota WRT2 – 86 points
4) Ford – 71 points
WRC2 2026 – Driver Standings
1) Yohan Rossel (Lancia) – 52 points
2) Léo Rossel (Citroën) – 52 points
3) Roope Korhonen (Toyota) – 52 points
4) Teemu Suninen (Toyota) – 42 points
5) Roberto Daprà (Skoda) – 37 points
6) Éric Camilli (Škoda) – 33 points
7) Nikolay Gryazin (Lancia) – 31 points
8) Alejandro Cachón (Toyota) – 29 points
9) Andreas Mikkelsen (Škoda) – 27 points
10) Robert Virves (Škoda) – 25 points
11) Fabrizio Zaldívar (Škoda) – 25 points
12) Gus Greensmith (Toyota) – 18 points
13) Jan Solans (Škoda) – 18 points
14) Lauri Joona (Škoda) – 15 points
15) Arthur Pelamourgues (Hyundai) – 15 points
16) Taylor Gill (Toyota) – 14 points
17) Isack Reiersen (Škoda) – 10 points
18) Christopher Ingram (Toyota) – 10 points
19) Diego Domínguez (Toyota) – 10 points
20) Emil Lindholm (Škoda) – 10 points
21) Mille Johansson (Ford) – 9 point
22) Daniel Chwist (Škoda) – 8 points
23) Michal Solowow (Toyota) – 8 points
24) Tommi Jylhä (Toyota) – 6 points
25) Jaroslaw Koltun (Škoda) – 6 points
26) Karan Patel (Škoda) – 6 points
27) Mattéo Chatillon (Škoda) – 5 point
28) Kajetan Kajetanowicz (Toyota) – 4 points
29) Aafik Virani (Škoda) – 4 points
30) Filip Kohn (Škoda) – 4 points
31) Giovanni Trentin (Škoda) – 4 points
32) Marko Viitanen (Toyota) – 2 points
33) Samman Singh Vohra (Škoda) – 2 points
34) Enrique Cruz (Toyota) – 2 points
35) Bernhard ten Brinke (Toyota) – 2 points
36) Andrea Lafarja (Toyota) – 1 point
37) John Wartique (Škoda) – 1 point
38) Romet Jürgenseon (Ford) – 1 point