2023 Portuguese Rally Championship

The 2023 Portuguese Rally Championship is yet another season on national rally championship in Portugal. Armindo Araujo is the reigning drivers champion.

• Main championship - for all cars, with R5/Rally2 the highest class eligible
• Portugal 2RM - for all two-wheel drive cars
• Rally&You Portugal Cup - for local drivers using Peugeot 208 Rally4 or 208 R2 cars.

The 2023 season is contested over eight rounds across entire Portugal.

Round	Start date	Finish date	Rally	Rally headquarters	Surface	Stages	Distance	Ref.
1	10 March	12 March	Rally Serras de Fafe e Felgueiras	Fafe, Braga	Gravel	17	180.29 km	[1]
2	March 31	April 1	Rallye Casinos do Algarve	Lagoa, Algarve	Gravel	9	107,38 km	[2]
3	April 28	April 29	Rali Terras d'Aboboreira	Amarante, Tâmega e Sousa	Gravel	9	99,18 km	[3]
4	May 11	May 14	Rally de Portugal	Matosinhos, Porto District	Gravel	19	325,35 km	[4]
5	June 30	July 1	Rali de Castelo Branco	Castelo Branco, Central Portugal	Tarmac	12	101,82 km	[5]
6	August 3	August 5	Rali Vinho da Madeira	Funchal, Madeira	Tarmac	TBA	TBA
7	September 15	September 16	Rali da Agua	Chaves, District of Vila Real	Tarmac	TBA	TBA
8	October 13	October 14	Rallye Vidreiro	Marinha Grande, Leiria	Tarmac	TBA	TBA
Sources:[6]

Rally2 entries
Car used	Entrant	Number	Driver	Co-Driver	Tyres	Rounds
Citroën C3 Rally2	Citroen Vodafone Team	6	Jose Pedro Fontes	Ines Ponte	P	1-5
	Sports&You	4	Bernardo Sousa	Ines Veiga	P	1-2
				Jose Janela		3-5
		20	Paulo Caldeira	Ana Goncalves		1-3
Ford Fiesta Rally2	Racing 4 You	12	Lucas Simoes	Nuno Almeida	MR	1-3
					P	4
Ford Fiesta R5		5	Ricardo Filipe	Filipe Carvalho	P	1-3, 5
Hyundai i20 N Rally2	Team Hyundai Portugal	24	Ricardo Teodosio	Jose Teixeira	P	1-5
		42	Craig Breen	James Fulton		1-2
		77	Kris Meeke	Ola Floene		3
				James Fulton		4-5
	Hyundai N/M&Costas	10	Pedro Meireles	Pedro Alves		1-5
		45	Paulo Meireles	Marco Goncalves		2-3
Škoda Fabia RS Rally2	Team Armindo Araujo / The Racing Factory	1	Armindo Araujo	Luis Ramalho	M	5
Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo						1, 3
					P	4
	The Racing Factory	15	Pedro Almeida	Mario Castro	P	1-4
	ARC Sport	9	Paulo Neto	Nuno Mota	M	1-3
		15	Miguel Correia	Jorge Eduardo Carvalho	M	1-3, 5
					P	4
Škoda Fabia R5	Diogo Salvi	22	Diogo Salvi	Hugo Magalhaes	P	2-3
				Antonio Costa		4

• Bruno Magalhaes left the championship and Team Hyundai Portugal. He was replaced by WRC Hyundai driver Craig Breen. After Breen's death in pre-event testing before Rally Croatia, the second seat at THP was taken by his close friend and former Citroen factory driver Kris Meeke. Hyundai also used a special livery in memory of Breen during Rali Terras d'Aboboreira.
• Lucas Simoes switched from running a Hyundai i20 R5 to a Ford Fiesta Rally2.
• Former SWRC driver Bernardo Sousa returned to the championship after taking part in the Portuguese edition of Big Brother.