Finishing with a win

   Vítor Sá will take part in this edition of the competition, he won back in 2004 with the ambition of "finishing the rally and winning in our category. We hope not to come across the bad luck we did in Calheta and, so, we intend to be competitive. Having that in mind, we made small alterations to the tuning and material of our vehicle and hope that these will translate in a significant betterment".  Vítor Sá, 55 years old, premiered in motor-racing back in 1988 on a Renault 5 GT Turbo. Between 1989 and 1991 he was part of the Toyota Madeira team and, in the following year, he obtained his first regional title at the gear of a Ford Sierra RS Cosworth. He would come to become local champion another ten times, driving at the gear of cars such as a Subaru Impreza 555, a Subaru Impreza WRC, a Peugeot 306 Maxi, a Peugeot 206 S1600, a Renault Clio S1600, a Fiat Punto S2000 and a Peugeot 207 S2000. After a long pause, Sá returned to racing last year with a Citroën DS3R3T. 

RVM legends: Porsche 911S

  Many were the drivers who participated in the Rally Vinho Madeira at the driving gear of a Porsche 911S, which rose to the podium by the hands of Giovanni Salvi in 1971. Nonetheless, it was with Américo Nunes that this model registered in the memory of Madeirans. The driver won four editions, being, in one of them, the only competitor to reach the finish line, all due to the power of a vehicle nicknamed "the Green Bomb". Porsche 911 was presented in 1966, coming up, in its first versions, with a six horizontal opposit cylinders of 1.991 cc, which, when competing, would go a little over 200 horses. Later, the model would come to receive a 2.687 cc engine, close to a 300 horse power, an important value for its time. The back traction as well as the positioning of the engine, also in the back of the vehicle, made driving it a demanding task.  

Alexandre Camacho is nr. 1 in a four champions list

The Organizing Commitee of Rally Vinho Madeira has revealed today the list of participants, with 60 enrolled competitors, for the next edition of the competition, which will hit the roads between the 6.th and the 8.th of August. The list reveals a deeply qualified group and promisses a lot of excitment both at the level of the overall competition as well as at the level of the various groups and classes in which it is divided. In it one can find listed the modality's main protagonists, at the national and regional levels, competing in an outstanding fleet from which, amongst many more, 17 R5 vehicles, 1 WRC and 2 Porsche stand out.  The first driver to leave from the box will be the current regional title holder, winner of the last three editions of the competition, the champion Alexandre Camacho, in a Citroën C3 R5. Other champions who have been confirmed to partake in the excitment are José Maria Lopez, the current holder of the Spanish title, in another Citroën C3 R5, the current Portuguese champion, Ricardo Teodósio and the regional champion of the Azores, Luís Miguel Rego, each in a Skoda Fabia R5 Evo. In this list other drivers stand out, drivers who have previously won the Madeiran competition, namely, Bruno Magalhães in a Hyundai i20 R5, José Pedro Fontes in a Citroën C3 R5, Vítor Sá in a Citroën DS3 R3T and Adruzilo Lopes in a Peugeot 208 R2. The fight for the first positions will also be taken by Miguel Nunes, Armindo Araújo, Ricardo Teodósio and João Silva, all racing with Skoda Fabia R5 Evo, Pedro Meireles in a Volkswagen Polo GTi R5 and Pedro Paixão in a Skoda Fabia R5. Rui Pinto will face the road in a Ford Focus RS WRC, while Filipe Freitas and Gil Freitas will account for the Porsche 991 GT3 RS contingent. The list of enroled, that was revealed today, accounts, as well, for an excellent group of drivers competing in the NR4, RC3, RC4 and RC5 groups.   https://ralivm.com/2020/sites/default/files/rvm2020_lista_inscritos_ert.pdf https://ralivm.com/2020/sites/default/files/rvm2020_lista_inscritos_cmr.pdf

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