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Carlos Martins
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Fixed competition numbers this season
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Shakedown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9k8Khm3t1Y
Tricky conditions at Rali Serras de Fafe, Portuguese season opening. Heavy rain on Friday night stages and rough terrain caused many mechanical problems and retirements. Four guys stand out from competition: Moura (Fiesta) lead on earlier stages but retired with broken transmission; Campos (Fabia) catch 1st place until a steering pump leak slow him down to 3rd; Fontes (DS3) managed to avoid troubles and got his first gravel win, despite a final charge from Meireles (Fabia). Very few 2wd crews but a close fight between 208’s young drivers Gago and Lopez (back by Peugeot Spain). Our guy beat the Spaniard, that wasn’t able to finish (engine failure). Barbosa (Evo 10) survive to be first in Gr.N and Merceano (Evo 8) easily won national gravel cup field. Next round: Rali Castelo Branco (22-23 April).
1º José Pedro Fontes / Inês Ponte - Citroen DS3 R5; 1h25m25.3s
2º Pedro Meireles / Mário Castro - Skoda Fabia R5; +9.6s
3º Miguel Campos / Carlos Magalhães - Skoda Fabia R5; +1m07.2s
4º Carlos Martins / Daniel Amaral - Citroen DS3 R5; +3m29.7s
5º Miguel Barbosa / Miguel Ramalho - Skoda Fabia R5; +3m37.3s
6º Diogo Salvi / Paulo Babo - Ford Fiesta R5; +4m32.1s
7º Joaquim Alves / Luís Ramalho - Ford Fiesta R5; +4m36.7s
8º Manuel Castro / Luís Costa - Skoda Fabia S2000; +7m30.8s
9º Elias Barros / Ricardo Faria - Ford Fiesta R5; +8m08s
10º Diogo Gago / Hugo Magalhães - Peugeot 208 R2; +8m30.5s
Lots of pics at Autosport page http://www.autosport.pt/ralis/cnr-ca...ras-de-fafe-2/ and a fine video from Bunnings https://youtu.be/74r7ePUL5dA
Vieira's mistake:
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Good video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuw1Jhf4nLk
Entry list Rali de Castelo Branco, round 2: http://ewrc-results.com/startlist.ph...lo-Branco-2016
No rain expected on the nice tarmac stages of Castelo Branco. Really hoping that Ford’s and Skoda’s guys will be in a close fight with Fontes (and Vieira, if he keeps the car on the road…) for the win. Good field also in 2wd, with some new Clio’s facing the usual top contenders. Online Timing: http://cnr.cronobandeira.com/ Web site: http://escuderiacastelobranco.pt/ins.../2016/rali-cb/
Like in Argentina, the winner in this weekend Rali Castelo Branco was only known on last stage. Big fight between Fontes (DS) and Barros (Fiesta) during all rally, with Campos (Fabia) a little bit behind. Barros managed to get first after a Fontes mistake and was able to support a strong final charge from the current champ.
It’s a great and totally deserved win for Barros and his team, after a long bad luck cycle. He’s one of the most enthusiastic rally drivers in the champ and despite not being a pro, he always tries to be competitive, running in maximum attack mode.
On 2wd field, Gago did another outstanding rally with the little 208, being beaten only by Cima’s more powerful Clio. Next round will be Açores Rally in June (Portugal Rally doesn’t count for CNR).
1.João Barros/Jorge Henriques – Ford Fiesta R5; 1:06:06.20
2.José Pedro Fontes/Inês Ponte – Citroen DS3 R5; +6.30
3.Miguel Campos/Carlos Magalhães – Skoda Fabia R5; +31.00
4.Pedro Meireles/Mário Castro – Skoda Fabia R5; +1:30.30
5.Carlos Vieira/Jorge Carvalho – Citroen DS3 R5; +1:47.40
6.Miguel Barbosa/Miguel Ramalho – Skoda Fabia R5; +3:55.90
7.Diogo Salvi/Paulo Babo – Ford Fiesta R5; +4:00.40
8.Francisco Cima/Diego Sanjuan – Renault Clio R3T; +4:20.40
9.Diogo Gago/Hugo Magalhães – Peugeot 208 R2; +4:49.40
10.Surhyen Pernía/Carlos del Barrio – Renault Clio R3T; +4:50.50
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Gago is another level :) He deserve another car right now.
Yep, Gago is clearly the fastest 2wd in the championship. It's a shame he's not repeating ERC Junior. Last year was his learning season, this year he could easily be between the series front drivers. Peugeot Portugal should saw it that way.
Rali Castelo Branco highlights by Mondego Sport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVP63sXl8GE
Madeira, Rali Porto Santo Line: http://ewrc-results.com/foto.php?e=2...anto-Line-2016
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Adruzilo Lopes, the legend, back with Porsche 997 GT3 to contest new national Portuguese GT championship.
Porsche with restrictor?Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
No.
Btw, Ivan Ares car
Rallye Vidreiro is the next round of the Portuguese championship. Fontes (DS3) is the front runner but Barros (Fiesta) is also very strong on Vidreiro’s fast tarmac roads and Skoda’s top drivers, Meireles and Campos, may (hopefully) also have a word. Like Andre already mentioned, there’s also the return of former champ Adruzilo Lopes, this time at the wheel of a 3.6 (unrestricted) 911.
Entry lists:
http://www.camg.pt/2016/Vidreiro_201...itos_-_cnr.pdf
http://www.camg.pt/2016/Vidreiro_201...tos_-_trfa.pdf
Website: http://www.camg.pt/
Live timing: http://cnr.cronobandeira.com/
Very havy crash for Diego Salvi. I hope the crew is ok.
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The crew is okay Mirek, on hospital only for routine checks and some small bruises.
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Photos from MondegoSport
Car complete wreck Im afraid :(.
That's impressive, where did the engine end up?
According to reports, this was a high speed crash into a big tree. Crew was lucky to escape without a scratch and the Fabia proved to be an extremely safe rally car. Força Salvi, Força Babo, we’re waiting for you at next rally!
Fontes won again, leading from the first stage. On first day Barros and Campos give him some fight and on second Meireles managed to be his main competitor, always at a small distance. Adruzilo Lopes completed only one SS, out of top 5. Without Diogo Gago there, Gil Antunes (Clio T) won 2wd class, after a strong recovery from Paulo Neto (DS3).
Final Top 10:
1. José Pedro Fontes/Inês Ponte - DS3 R5 1:00:12.8
2. Pedro Meireles/Mário Castro - Fabia R5 +14.9
3. Miguel Campos/Carlos Magalhães - Fabia R5 +59.9
4. João Barros/Jorge Henriques - Fiesta R5 +01:13.1
5. Carlos Martins/Daniel Amaral - DS3 R5 +01:19.3
6. Carlos Vieira/Jorge Carvalho - DS3 R5 +02:07.0
7. Miguel Barbosa/Miguel Ramalho - Fabia R5 +02:23.8
8. Elias Barros/Ricardo Faria - Fiesta R5 +02:49.7
9. Joaquim Alves/Luís Ramalho - Fiesta R5 +03:34.6
10. Manuel Castro/Luís Costa - Fabia S2000 +03:36.6
Rally Mania video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2X0N6ByBcE
Sorry for the off topic, but this was also the amazing Vila Real Circuit weekend and Monteiro give us an incredible joy winning WTCC main race. Podium celebration was epic! Well done Tiago!
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Photo: Doidos por Rally
Like André showed on TER’s thread, next round of Portuguese rally series it’s Rallye Vinho Madeira, one of Europe’s best tarmac rallys. Starting today, it’ll be a fantastic rally to follow (live TV by RTP Madeira), with lots of great national and regional drivers fighting for the win.
National title contenders Fontes (DS), Meireles (Fabia) and Campos (Fabia), alongside Moura (Fiesta), Magalhães (Fiesta) and local drivers Camacho (DS) and Nunes (Fiesta) are the favorites. Consani (DS), Costenaro (208) and Dumas (911) are also there, giving an international touch to this amazing event.
entry list: http://ralivm.com/2016/pt/event/lista-inscritos
live timing: http://ralivm.com/2016/pt/info/resultados
tv schedule: http://www.rtp.pt/madeira/desporto/c...-emissao-_3702
tv link: http://www.rtp.pt/play/direto/rtpmadeira
A fantastic first leg at Rallye Vinho Madeira: top 5 under 20s!
Magalhães leads since SS3 on his first outing in a Fiesta. Fontes was pretty close all day long but lost some time on the night stages. Local guys, Camacho and Nunes, profit from those last stages to move up on classification. Campos is still on the fight, but brakes and fuel tank issues slowed him a little bit. Meireles and Moura are out of the pace, with Vieira close to them. Dumas is the first RGT, being 9th overall. Pires (Evo X) leads N4 and Silva (Clio R3) is the best 2wd.
1º Bruno Magalhães/Hugo Magalhães (Fiesta R5) 01:14:05,8s
2º Alexandre Camacho/Pedro Calado (208 T16) +10,4s
3º José Pedro Fontes/Inês Ponte (DS3 R5) +12,3
4º Miguel Nunes/João Paulo (Fiesta R5) + 14,1s
5º Miguel Campos/Vitor Calado (Fabia R5) + 19,5s
6º Pedro Meireles/Mário Castro (Fabia R5) +1:07,1s
7º Ricardo Moura/António Costa (Fiesta R5) +1:25,5s
8º Carlos Vieira/Jorge Carvalho (DS3 R5) +1:35,6s
9º Romain Dumas/Denis Giraudet (911 RS) +2:03,1s
10º Gil Freitas/Duarte Miranda (911 RS) +2:53,4s
Second leg starts in a couple of hours, with 4 stages covered live by RTP Madeira.
There was an incident with "a rock"? What happened exactly?
On the second to last stage, after the zero car, Bruno Magalhães had a close encounter with a big rock, and had a small off-road. He and his co-driver left the car and stopped the rally. Bruno said that the rock was planted, Madeira's fans said that was just a debacle. Certain is that the stage was cancelled, and on the last stage Bruno won the rally, José Pedro got a stage win and second place and Alexandre Camacho (the island driver) descended to third. Supposedly the rock was planted there by a Camacho fan.Quote:
Originally Posted by atsiotras79
Anyway, after the rally ended Bruno was given a 35 sec penalty and dropped to 4th, leaving José Pedro with the win, and both Camacho and Miguel Nunes that are Madeira's natural, with 2nd and 3rd.
Bruno it's appealing from the decision, but said that we will never be n RVM again.
Bruno's Onboard
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When he hit the dirt bank he said: "They planted us a rock"
If you want my take on the thing... well, planted or not, there was public near by, and a rock falling down makes noise. They could easily removed it or at least alerted. But, Bruno and Hugo did not proceed the right way stopping the rally, and then continuing the same rally as the car didn't have significant damage. So in the end, was a loose-loose stupid situation. I've been in RVM a few times and the rally is one of the most beautifull. The stages are well designed and the scenery it's jaw dropping. Problem is that the organisation it´s a bit... meh! They said earlier in the press conference that RVM don't want to be in the ERC, but sincerely, I do think as it is, they don't even deserve it.
P.S - Apparently there was a comissar that saw the rock being thrown to the road, but his report was not taken in account. Very good stuff... arghhhhhh :/
It is not an easy situation, from @TheFlyingTuga's writting also some contradictions :
- it was not a rock, from the camera looks like a stone
- if the public was standing some 10 meters away, they couldn't here the noise of stone falling
- why did Bruno act incorrectly? I would stop others also.
- penalty for Bruno? If he thinks that injustice happened to him, he must fight for his rights.
- if, I repeat IF, Camacho knows the background of this shameful act, he should be punished.
Anyway, I feel sorry for Bruno & Hugo, as they didn't have any chance to avoid this accident.
The infamous stone, which turned a fantastic rally into a shameful mess…
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Tuga already explained the situation but it’s not fair to blame the organizers. They cancelled that stage and delayed the start of the last one, making possible for Bruno to evaluate the damages on the car and start the final SS in time. The late decision to penalize Bruno with 35s for inappropriate behavior was made by the steward’s college, not the organizers.
Bruno’s attitude it’s understandable: he was giving everything to keep the rally leadership and that abnormal incident seemed to have ruined his efforts. But his remarks weren’t totally accurate: it was pretty obvious that he stopped the other guys because he felt he was victim of sabotage, not for safety reasons, as he later claimed. And even if we accept that the stone was purposely placed there, it’s not clear that spectators were near and it’s a bit hard to believe that a Marshall witnessed someone dropping it into the road and did no effort to remove it.
Above all, this was a sad end for the rally and it wasn’t only Bruno, Alexandre (that lost concentration and was beaten by Fontes on last SS) and their codrivers that were undermined; the whole sport gets affected by these situations. Besides classification issues, if it comes clear this really was a sabotage I hope that in a near future Bruno will be invited to return to Madeira in order to make, alongside Alexandre, other drivers and the organizers, a pedagogic campaign so that everyone understands that these actions puts the drivers lifes at risk and the rally future in jeopardy.
The overall classification may have lost the interest after the SS18 incidents, but the drivers efforts during the rally shouldn’t be deleted from our memories. Here’s a nice video from Mais Ralis guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8aNoo2KfGM
IMO I don't understand why Magelhaes stopped the stage.
Rocks on the road are part of rallying, you can not know at all if it is planted or not. If you are first on the road, you can encounter rocks, it's a "racing incident"
He should have (tried to) continue and let the rally continue. I understand he got a penalty.
Was the rock there when safety cars passed?
I mean Bruno was 1st on the road so should not have been more than 5-10 mins after 0 car
No, the rock wasn't there when the zero passed. Just when Bruno reached there that the stone was on the roadQuote:
Originally Posted by atsiotras79
You’re right, when the crew and their car are ok the normal procedure is to continue, and complain after. But we all know that stewards and organizers rarely attend those complains. The overall spirit is “the show must go on”.Quote:
Originally Posted by dupanton
From the moment he saw the stone Bruno was convinced it was sabotage, and honestly I think his instinct was right. There are too many factors to not believe that the stone ended there by coincidence.
I just regret Bruno wasn’t able to keep his original reaction to stop the rally. He should remain there no matter what and stand for his point. If necessary he should call the authorities and even the media, so that everyone realized that this kind of actions cannot be admitted on our sport.
It may seem a bit drastic, but sometimes drastic measures are the only way to change wrong behaviors. We all remember top drivers boycott at Portugal ‘86 Rally. Their attitude seemed excessive but it was vital to make spectators realized they should improve their behavior.
This case shouldn’t be seen just as an unfortunate problem that occurred with Bruno and Hugo in Madeira’s Rally. This can happen, and has happened, in any rally, with any driver and co driver. It’s their safety that’s at risk. It’s the sport’s fair competition principles that are undermined.
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Originally Posted by Rally Power
In some cases it’s tragic, not only in Madeira but also on the mainland. Local populations and firefighters are exhausted. We’re hoping for a less extreme weather over the next days.
Nice to have Salvi and Babo back on the championship, after their huge accident in the Fabia. At Mortágua’s Rally they’ll use the Fiesta. Good luck!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l11e2v16o
Video: WRCatedral_Fafe
Rallye de Mortágua will be the next round of the Portuguese championship. Probably, the last chance for Meireles to get closer to Fontes. Campos is absent, but Barros, Peres, Salvi, Alves and Gago are back. Madeira’s ace, Nunes, will be making another try on a gravel rally.
Entry list: http://www.cacsport.com/ficheiros/AR...agua-2016a.pdf
Live timing: http://cnr.cronobandeira.com/
Shakedown video, by Mondego Sport: https://youtu.be/CE3xW1hkjMY