The Italian Giandomenico Basso will arrive in Madeira pumped after a victory this weekend at the Rally di Roma Capitale, an event counting for the Italian Rally Championship and the ERC. Driving a Skoda Fabia R5 prepared by the Loran team, the driver, who has won the Rali Vinho da Madeira four times, was on the top places right from the beginning of the rally and led the competition, which took place in the province of Lazio, for the last 13 of 16 stages of the  event.

At this rally, Basso had this almost error-free participation in an evern very well known for challenges and at one time had an advantage of almost 50 seconds over the next contender. The driver navigated by Lorenzo Granai lost about half of that advantage by an error at a crossing but ended with 23.3 seconds advantage over the second classified.  Basso was "extremely happy after a hard weekend. This was an important victory and that motivates us even more to the rest of the season "