2013 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal
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Round 7 of 12 in the 2013 World Touring Car Championship at Circuito da Boavista in Porto, Portugal.
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| Date | 30 June, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Porto, Portugal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Circuito da Boavista 4.800 kilometres (2.983 mi) |
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| Laps | 12 | ||
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| Pole position | |||
| Driver |
 Yvan Muller
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RML | |
| Time | 2:05.347 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First |
Yvan Muller
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RML | |
| Second |
 Tom Chilton
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RML | |
| Third |
 Michel Nykjær
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NIKA Racing | |
| Fastest Lap | |||
| Driver |
 Pepe Oriola
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Tuenti Racing Team | |
| Time | 2:07.228 | ||
| Laps | 11 | ||
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| Podium | |||
| First |
James Nash
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bamboo-engineering | |
| Second |
Robert Huff
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Münnich Motorsport | |
| Third |
Michel Nykjær
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NIKA Racing | |
| Fastest Lap | |||
| Driver |
Yvan Muller
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RML | |
| Time | 2:07.452 | ||
The 2013 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal was the seventh round of the 2013 World Touring Car Championship season, the seventh running of the FIA WTCC Race of Portugal and the final European round of the season. It was held on 30 June 2013 at the Circuito da Boavista street circuit in Porto, Portugal.
Race one was won from pole position by Yvan Muller for RML. The second race was won by James Nash driving for bamboo-engineering.
At the halfway point of the season, Yvan Muller was leading the drivers' championship and Michel Nykjær was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy.
The Honda Civic WTCCs dropped 30 kg when the compensation weights were revised after the previous round. The BMW 320 TCs received an extra 20 kg of ballast, making them the second heaviest cars on the grid behind the Chevrolets.
Pepe Oriola switched from his SEAT León WTCC to a Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T leased from RML and run by Tuenti Racing Team.Hugo Valente was originally scheduled to miss the Portuguese round but rejoined Campos Racing when a third car was made spare by Oriola's switch to Chevrolet. Tom Boardman also rejoined the field having missed the Austrian and Russian rounds.
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