For Pedro Paixão, this season’s balance “is kind of positive. This is my first full-time season with a R5. We have surpassed the record in some of the classifying legs; we competed in two rallies and used three others for learning and improvement. Rally Vinho Madeira is quite a long competition and there are very strong claimants to victory, which means there is a lot of work to do. I cannot, nonetheless, disguise my ambition to become, this year already, the youngest racer to have ever won the Rally.

Paixão is now 24 years old, has raced in karting and started motor-racing in 2016 at the Wheel of a Toyota Yaris. He has raced with various RC4 group vehicles, but it was at the commands of a Renault Clio R3 that he won his class championship these last two years. Since the end of 2018, he rides a Skoda Fabia R5, has headed, this year already, various rallies of the Regional Championship and is, currently, the third classified of the Coral Rally Championship of Madeira.