August 2016

José Pedro Fontes wins Ribeiro Frio 2

José Pedro Fontes wins SS9 - Ribeiro Frio 2 - with 4:24,0. Bruno Magalhães loses 2.4 secs and has now only a half second advantage.

Emotion grows as the day comes to the end.

Alexandre Camacho keeps improving and was second in this stage, thus stealing fourth place overall from  Miguel Nunes. These two drivers and Miguel Campos keep a lively fight, only a few seconds apart

Participants out of the rally

So far, besides the already informed retirements of Filipe Freitas and Giacomo Costenaro, there are some more drivers out of the race, being expected they will return tomorrow in super-rally:

39 - Paulo Andrade / Pauo Ferreira

40 - Diogo Camacho / Sílvio Malho

41 - Nélio Pereira / Filipe fernandes

45 - João Sousa / Ruben Freitas

30 - Paulo Moreira / Pedro Alves

Action in Service Park

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When the cars go through Service Park, there is o lot of movement around the cars.

Teams set details and the drivers rest, eat or change ideas or informtaions.

The fans also watch closely all the action and make photos, to remind later.

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Accident in SS3 - Palheiro Ferreiro 1

With the accident of Filipe Freitas, the stage was stopped. The following decisions were made:

- the two drivers who were inside the stage, followed teh «normal» route, as a connecting road;

- the remaining drivers reached Regroupping through the alternative route;

- as all the drivers were in Funchal on time, all the event schedule ramained unchanged;

The drivers who could not make the stage received the following times:

- Porsche cars - received the same time as Romain Dumas;

- Carlos Vieira - same time as Pedro Meireles;

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