The 1974 Rally of Portugal was the 8th running of the Rallye de Portugal and was the first round of the 1974 World Rally Championship season after the oil crisis forced the cancellation of the Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo Rally

The Monte Carlo Rally or Rally Monte Carlo is a rallying event organised each year by the Automobile Club de Monaco which also organises the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix and the Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique. The rally takes place along the French Riviera in the Principality of Monaco and...

 and Swedish

Swedish Rally

The Uddeholm Swedish Rally , formerly the Swedish Rally, is an automobile rally competition held in Värmland, Sweden in early February. First held in 1950, when it was called the Rally to the Midnight Sun with start and finish at separate locations, seventeen years later both start and finish...

 rallies.
As with all of the WRC

World Rally Championship

The World Rally Championship is a rallying series organised by the FIA, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer. The driver's world championship and manufacturer's world championship are separate championships, but based on the same point system. The series currently consists of 13...

 rounds in 1974, there was only a manufacturer championship, so only manufacturers results were counted for points. Only the top finishing car for each manufacturer counted. Fiat

Fiat

FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli...

 locked out the podium places but only picked up 20 points in the championship due to this rule. An advantage is gained though, because the next finishing manufacturer can only pick up the points available for where their driver finished - in this case Ove Andersson

Ove Andersson

Ove Andersson was a Swedish rally driver and the first head of Toyota's F1 program. His nickname was "Påven" .-Early life:...

 took 10 points for 4th place in a Toyota Corolla

Toyota Corolla

The Toyota Corolla is a line of subcompact and compact cars manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota, which has become very popular throughout the world since the nameplate was first introduced in 1966. In 1997, the Corolla became the best selling nameplate in the world, with over 35 million...

.

Results

Pos.	Driver	Co-driver	Car	Time	Difference	Points
WRC
1.	Raffaele Pinto Raffaele Pinto Raffaele "Lele" Pinto is a former rally driver, who won the 1974 Rally Portugal.-Career:Pinto began rallying in 1968. In 1972, he won the European Rally Championship in a Fiat 124. The following year, the World Rally Championship was run for the first time, and Pinto competed with Fiat, winning...	Arnaldo Bernacchini	Fiat Abarth 124 Rallye	6:26:15	0.0	20
2.	Alcide Paganelli	Ninni Russo	Fiat Abarth 124 Rallye	6:30:12	3.57
3.	Markku Alén Markku Alén Markku Allan Alén is a Finnish former rally and race car driver. He drove for Fiat, Lancia, Subaru and Toyota in the World Rally Championship, and held the record for most stage wins in the series until 2011...	Ilkka Kivimäki	Fiat Abarth 124 Rallye	6:37:17	11.02
4.	Ove Andersson Ove Andersson Ove Andersson was a Swedish rally driver and the first head of Toyota's F1 program. His nickname was "Påven" .-Early life:...	Arne Hertz Arne Hertz Arne Hertz was a Swedish co-driver in motor rallying.His name first became prominent when co-driving for Stig Blomqvist , with whom he first won the RAC Rally, in 1971. With Blomqvist, in the same year, he also won the Hankiralli, the Swedish Rally and the 1000 Lakes Rally...	Toyota Corolla Toyota Corolla The Toyota Corolla is a line of subcompact and compact cars manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota, which has become very popular throughout the world since the nameplate was first introduced in 1966. In 1997, the Corolla became the best selling nameplate in the world, with over 35 million...	6:40:54	14.39	10
5.	Harry Källström Harry Källström Harry "Sputnik" Källström was a Swedish professional rally driver who debuted in 1957 and competed in the World Rally Championship in the 1970s. Prior to the forming of the WRC, Källström won the RAC Rally in a Lancia Fulvia 1.6 Coupé HF in 1969 and 1970...	Claes Billstam	Datsun 260Z	6:54:27	28.12	8
6.	Bob Neyret Bob Neyret Robert "Bob" Neyret is a retired French professional rally driver who competed in the 1960s and the 1970s. He won the Rallye du Maroc in 1969 and 1970. In 1972, when the event was part of the International Championship for Manufacturers, he finished second in a Citroën DS 21...	Yveline Vanoni	Alpine-Renault A110 1800	7:04:18	38.03	6
7.	Georg Fischer	Harald Gottlieb	BMW 2002	7:05:02	38.47	4
8.	Francisco Romãozinho Francisco Romãozinho Francisco Romãozinho is a retired Portuguese professional rally driver who competed in the 1970s.Romãozinho, driving a Citroën DS21 and partnered by José Bernardo, achieved his best result in the World Rally Championship at the 1973 Rallye de Portugal, his home event, by finishing third.-References:...	José Bernardo	Citroën GS Citroën GS The Citroën GS and Citroën GSA are small family cars produced by the French automaker Citroën. The GS was voted European Car of the Year for 1971, and was probably the most technologically advanced car in its class when launched, with class leading comfort, safety and aerodynamics.-Market...	7:17:04	50.49	3
9.	Chris Sclater	Neil Wilson	Ford Escort RS1600	7:26:59	1:00.44	2
10.	António Borges	Miguel Sottomayor	Fiat 124 Sport Spyder Fiat 124 The Fiat 124 is a mid-sized family car produced by the Italian manufacturer Fiat between 1966 and 1974. It was the replacement of the Fiat 1300 and Fiat 1500...	7:27:55	1:01.40

Championship standings

Rank	Manufacturer	Event								Total points
		POR Rally de Portugal The Rally de Portugal is a rally competition held in Portugal. First held in 1967, the seventh running of the race, the 7º TAP Rallye de Portugal was the third event in the inaugural FIA World Rally Championship in 1973...	KEN Safari Rally The Safari Rally is considered by many to be the world's toughest rally. It was first held from 27 May to 1 June 1953 as the East African Coronation Safari in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, as a celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II...	FIN Rally Finland The Neste Oil Rally Finland is a rally event driven in the Jyväskylä area in Central Finland. It is the biggest annually organised public event in the Nordic countries, gathering over 500,000 spectators every year....	ITA Rallye Sanremo Rallye Sanremo is a rally competition held in Sanremo, Italy. Except for the 1995 event, the event was part of the FIA World Rally Championship schedule from the 1973 season to the 2003 season. Currently, it is a round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge and the Italian national rally...	CAN	USA Press-on-Regardless Rally Press-on-Regardless Rally is a road rally organized by the Detroit Region of the Sports Car Club of America.The Press-on-Regardless was first run in 1949 as a 24 hour Time-Speed-Distance rally. In 1969, the POR became a stage rally...	GBR Rally GB Wales Rally GB is the largest and most high profile motor rally in the United Kingdom. It is a round of the FIA World Rally Championship and was formerly a round of the MSA British Rally Championship and is based in and around the city of Cardiff in Wales...	FRA Tour de Corse The Tour de Corse - Rallye de France is a rally first held in 1956 on the island of Corsica. It was part of the World Rally Championship from the inaugural 1973 season to 2008. The name "Tour de Corse" refers to the fact that in the early days it was run around the island; nowadays it only features...
1	Fiat Fiat FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli...	20
20
2	Toyota	10
10
3	Datsun Datsun Datsun was an automobile marque. The name was created in 1931 by the DAT Motorcar Co. for a new car model, spelling it as "Datson" to indicate its smaller size when compared to the existing, larger DAT car. Later, in 1933 after Nissan Motor Co., Ltd...	8
8
4	Alpine-Renault	6
6
5	BMW BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...	4
4
6	Citroën Citroën Citroën is a major French automobile manufacturer, part of the PSA Peugeot Citroën group.Founded in 1919 by French industrialist André-Gustave Citroën , Citroën was the first mass-production car company outside the USA and pioneered the modern concept of creating a sales and services network that...	3
3
7	Ford Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK...	2
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External links

• Results on RallyBase.nl
• Results on Rallye-info.com