October 2021

It’s already tomorrow, 29th October, that the Rally Madeira Legend, organized by the Club Sports da Madeira will hit the roads in its second edition and within an international scope. Besides reliving the emotions of the past motorsports, this competition will show the performance of a great list of 45 enrolled renown drivers such as the former two times World Champion Massimo Biasion, the former two times Regional Champion Rui Conceição, and other names that need no introduction as Jorge Ortigão, a former Toyota driver, as well as the main drivers of this type of national competition. The Organizing Committee of the event will also have an outstanding list of racing cars, Historic, Spirit and Legend, where a few “monsters” of group B will perform, a Lancia Delta S4 and an Audi Quattro S1 E2, as well as two WRC, all generations of the Ford Escort RS and iconic models as Renault 5 Turbo, an Opel Ascona 400, a Lancia Delta Integrale, different evolutions of an Audi Quattro and an Alpine Renault A110. The competitors with the first two types of vehicles will compete with each other, while the competitors with Legend vehicles will just race as performance drivers, without any qualification.  The program for the first day of the competition has the first Administrative and Technical Checks, being held at Praça CR7, at 10 a.m. and the group photo will happen at the same place at 6 p.m. The start ceremony will happen at 7:12 p.m. at Avenida Arriaga, in front of the organizing club, as it used to happen for many years with Rali Vinho da Madeira. As for the sports component of a competition essentially driven for the exhibition of the vehicles, the two first special stages will be fought with a double passage through the 7,20 km of Palheiro Ferreiro, between São João Latrão and Terreiro da Luta, at 8:35 p.m. and 9:38 p.m.  

Rally Madeira Legend is about to start in two days and the competition organized by Club Sports da Madeira will have some of the most mythic models of this sport. Among these, the racing cars that have had more followers and enthusiasts belong to group B, removed from the competition by the end of 1986 due to their great power, at the time with less consensus for such competitions. In group B, several brands and models raced, but among these, some remained unforgettable in a passionate public. This elite group features the Audi Quattro S1 E2 or Lancia Delta S4, vehicles that will perform in the roads of the island by the end of the week. As the latest setups within the limits of the homologation in group B, both these models have central engines, rear engine in Lancia and front engine in Audi, all-wheel drive and a minimum weight of 960kg. Delta S4 has the particular aspect of a supercharged double system in its 4 cylinder and a little less than 1.800 cc, while the German car has an engine of 5 cylinder with about 2.200 cc.  

By the end of this week, Rally Madeira Legend, organized by Club Sports da Madeira, will hit the roads, an event that is open to historic racing cars that were legends in the motorsports competitions.  Even following the rally rules, or racing competition, this event is defined due to its specific features. The competition will be open to two types of vehicles, the Historic and the Spirit.  As the name can tell, Historic vehicles were built until the late 1986 and still have all its original characteristics, according to its homologation document at that time. As for Spirit vehicles, they can display a historic bodywork but have its mechanical parts and settings that were not used back then. Rally Madeira Legend will also have a Legend Show limited to vehicles that have been homologated more recently, but, due to its potential, are excluded from the competition, being used as performance vehicles only. The performance of this type of competing vehicles slightly mirrors the spirit of this competition that, despite the competitors’ effort to reassure the best sports outcome, the most relevant is the possibility given to participants and audience to feel the past emotions for these racing cars.  

Rally Madeira Legend, on the roads on the 29th and 30th October, has an excellent entries list of 45 drivers. Despite being its second edition, the competition, organized by Club Sports da Madeira was able to have a list of extraordinary drivers where, besides the former world champion Massimo Biaion and a former regional champion, Rui Conceição, we can find several names that need no introduction, such as Jorge Ortigão, former official driver of Toyota in Portugal, as well as most competitors who usually lighten this type of sports event both in Portugal and worldwide. The level of vehicles starting of the competition will also be outstanding. Besides the amazing Lancia Delta S4, this competition will also have a strong number of Audi Quattro, in its most significant versions, several generations of the Ford Escort, from its “older” Mk l to the most recent Escort RS Cosworth, two WRC Ford Focus and Subaru Impreza, Lancia Delta Integrale, Opel Ascona, as well as many other historical vehicles that have been on the roads in the last few decades. These are some of the conditions for this event, organized by Pedro Melvill Araújo, to be successful and a reason of delight for the motorsports fans, both from the island and visitors.