In the fourth of five service parks of the day, all the top five of RVM changed the tyres again, following the pattern of the former passages through the service park. This time, the long talk of Alexandre Camacho and Pedro Calado with their chief of mechanical staff was well remarked.
The regulations include a Super Rally / Rally 2 in the third and last day of RVM.
All the cars that retired during the first leg can take part.
The points received during Super Rally / Rally 2 become bunuses in the classification of the championships where the drivers are entered, but will not be included in RVM overall classification.
To take part, the drivers must inform the RVM organisation until one hour before the publication of the starting list of the second leg, that will take place at 00h32.
Roberto Martins left RVM, on the connecting road between SS 8 - Terreiro da Luta 1 and regrouping.
After 8 stages of RVM, José Pedro Fontes leads the race (58:36.9).
Second place belongs now to the madeiran Miguel Nunes (58:38.0).
In third place, and coming closer, is Bruno Magalhães (58:49.1).
Alexandre Camacho is current seventh (59:42.1), after the puncture in his Citroen DS3 R5, in SS 6, Cidade de Santana 1.
O pneu que afastou Alexandre Camacho da liderança do RVM 2015
"I am desolated. The puncture, worst than everything, was near the start of the stage, and this made us lose a lot of time. I have been there fifty times and I have never had any puncture. I did it today. It is really bad luck. Now we must fight!" Words of Alexandre Camacho after having dropped from first to seventh pplace after a puncture right at the beginning of SS 8 - o Terreiro da Luta1.
The team Paulo Moreira / Marco Macedo left RVM due to mechanical problems, after SS 6 - Cidade de Santana 1.
Francisco Tavares / Luís Neves also join the retirements list, after an accident in SS 7 - Ribeiro Frio 1.
In the 56th edition of RVM the night stages are back, starting at 20:53, with three stages: Cidade de Santana 2, Ribeiro Frio 2 and Terreiro da Luta 2, a total of 28 kilometres and 120 metres.
At this time, in service park, everything that is needed to allow the cars to go to the road tonight is being prepared, as the issues concerning the lights.
Vítor Ferro retires due to mechanical problems in his Toyota Yaris, in SS 6 - Cidade de Santana 1.
In the same stage, the Citroen Saxo of Paulo Nunes had also mechanical problems and retired.
After doing five stages, the top drivers changed the tyres at the Serice Park. The choice was unanimous, with all the cars using the RK5 of the italian Pirelli, while those using Michelin took the M31. But there other works on the cars: José Pedro Fontes' team, for example, made a carefull cleaning of the brakes disks, while the staff of the madeiran Miguel Nunes, besides checking the brakes, changed the tyres betting in four brand new RK5 Pirelli.
Alexandre Camacho leaves the leadership of RVM losing more than one minute to the main rivals.
The madeiran driver did most of this stage with a puncture in his Citroen DS3 R5, that forced him to take more than eight minutes in Cidade de Santana 1.
