Kris Meeke is the first leader of the Rali Vinho da Madeira, an event counting for the FIA European Rally Trophy, national and regional championships of the sport that is on the road until next Saturday, 5^th August. The Hyundai i20N Rally2 driver completed the 2.18 km of Cidade do Funchal, the only Special Stage of the first day of competition held in the downtown of the host city and framed, as usual, by many tens of thousands of spectators, in 1:34.8.

His time was 0.2 seconds better than the second fastest, Simone Campedelli, in a Skoda Fabia Rally2 Evo. Third fastest, Armindo Araújo took 0.7 seconds longer than the leader in his Skoda Fabia RS Rally2. In the accounts relevant to the regional championship of the sport, the command belongs to Miguel Nunes, fourth absolute with 0.1 seconds less than Alexandre Camacho.

The best among the users of two-wheel drive vehicles are also the first in the Peugeot Rally Cup Iberica, a trophy in which João Silva is in the lead, with an advantage of 1.6 and 3.3 seconds over Pedro Antunes and Hugo Lopes, respectively. Gil Freitas, in his debut with the Alpine A110, was the fastest among the competitors with RGT.