This last decade, for Rally Vinho Madeira, started with the dominium of Skoda in the year 2010. The Czech brand, with its Fabia S2000, monopolized the podium with the Belgian Freddy Loix, accompanied by the factory team along with Jan Kopecky and Juho Hanninen. In the following years, it was the turn of the Portuguese racer Bruno Magalhães to win. The Lisbon-born pilot, at the Wheel of a Peugeot 207 S2000, would, in both editions, be followed by the Madeiran Vítor Sá ridding a similar vehicle.

In 2013, an year in which the Rally took part of the European Cup, it would be, again, the model of the Sochaux house to triumph, this time piloted by Giandomenico Basso who, this way, would equal the 1970’s triumph record established by Américo Nunes. This would be a turning-point year for international rally racing, from the perspective of Rally Vinho Madeira. The Madeiran race would, from the following year, become part of the FIA European Rally Triphy, a competition of which it still is a part.

Like music, tendentiously more electronic, the S2000 engines’ “lyricism” would give in to the muffled and hoarse sound of the more efficient R5, a successful formula. Bruno Magalhães would obtain in 2014 and 2015 two more triumphs at the wheel of a Peugeot 208 T16 and would join Américo Nunes and Giandomenico Basso in the group of pilots with a poker-hand of victories.

In 2016, José Pedro Fontes took his Citroën DS3 R5 to the highest place of the podium at Avenida Arriaga, in front of the seat of the organizing entity. Again in 2017, another Madeiran would rise to the same rank. Thirteen years after Vítor Sá, Alexandro Camacho would open the celebratory champagne bottle on the rooftop of his Peugeot 208 T16. In 2018, the podium was moved to Praça do Mar, but Alexandre Camacho would still be celebrating the win, this time at the wheel of a Skoda Fabia R5.