Starting order for Rali Vinho Madeira (RVM) has been published and can be found in the official site of the event www.ralivm.com, in the Official Noticeboard.
Four drivers will not be at the start: the turkish turco Murat Bostanci and the madeirans Rui Pinto, Filipe Freitas and Paulo Mendes.
We remind that these drivers did not attend the scrutineering and administrative checks on Wednesday.
The Renault Clio R3 of Isabel Ramos / Carina Barros, and the Citroen C2 R2 of Ricardo Gonçalves / Artur França were checked this morning and were found to be according to the rules.
We remind that these two teams entered in European Rally Trophy, asked to be checked only on thursday instead of the remaining that were at the scrutineering on wednesday, according to the officla program.
One of the highlights of edition 56 of Rali Vinho Madeira (RVM) is the comeback of an historical duet of the regional rallies: Rui Conceição and Roberto Fernandes are, together, on the road again.
“I missed it a lot. We are all good friends, we have a good environment in the team and is good to be back”, aknowledged co-driver Roberto Fernandes, who moved to Porto Santo and has been away from motorsports lately.
Robert Consani's DS3 R5 started today's Shakedown with a different look
"The black color is a way of showing my tribute to my big friend Jules Bianchi who, unfortunately, died on the 17th July after being nine monthes in coma", the driver told RVM site, confirming that he will run 2015 edition of Rali Vinho Madeira with his car fully black.
We remind that Jules Bianchi, Formula 1 driver, suffered a serious accident in the Grand Prix of Japan held on the 5th October 2014.
In one of the areas of Centro de Exposições do Madeira Tecnopolo took place the scrutineering, marking and sealing of the cars entered in the three events of 2015 edition of Rali Vinho Madeira (RVM).
34 of the cars entered in the European Rally Trophy were checked. Did not show the Ford Fiesta R5 of the team Murat Bostanci / Onur Vantansever, the Renault Clio R3 of Isabel Ramos / Carina Barros, the Citroen C2 R2 of Ricardo Gonçalves / Artur França. These two latter teams asked to have the cars checked tomorrow, thursday.
Estão em curso as verificações técnicas às viaturas que vão participar no Rali Vinho Madeira com a presença de muito público no Madeira Tecnopolo para ver pela primeira vez as "máquinas" que vão participar na edição de 2015 da prova.
Administrative checks of the teams taking part in 2015 edition of Rali Vinho Madeira have started in floor -1 of Madeira Tecnopolo.
Besides the property document it is necessary to deliver the technical passport and all the documentation related to the teams entry according to the rules.
A organização do Rali Vinho Madeira (RVM) conta, todos os anos, com a colaboração de cerca de 1300 elementos na estrada. Se tivermos em conta, apenas os últimos 10 anos, pode-se falar de alguns milhares de colaboradores que, de forma desinteressada e cooperante, têm o seu nome ligado ao rali.
Estranhamos que, nos dias que antecedem o evento, surjam algumas queixas, por vezes recorrendo a expedientes (por exemplo cartas do leitor), nas quais são feitas reclamações públicas que não correspondem à realidade dos factos, e não são expostas no tempo e no local próprio.
Today, the 29th July, take place, in Madeira Tecnopolo, the administrative checks and scrutineering of 2015 edition of Rali Vinho Madeira.
The scrutineering is made by the Federação Portuguesa de Automobilismo e Karting technical delegates Carlos Barros e João Vasconcelos, together with a team of 14 members coordinated by Arlindo Cruz Silva.
Bruno Vasconcelos and Nélio Pereira arrived at Casino da Madeira by 21 hours. They quickly watched some cars taht were at the entrance, but did not lose time and were first in the queue for the autographs of the 17 teams who attended the session.
