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Interest that will not count to Portuguese national championship. Hope some teams use it to test to Rally Vidreiro.
About entries:
José Paula / Valter Cardoso - Peugeot 208 T16
Miko Marczyk (Skoda Fabia R5) has confirmed his presence today.
Sergio Cuesta and Jandrin will upgrade to Ford Fiesta Rally4
Will start in Rallye National de la Drome (France) to prepare Fafe.
According to this article Oliver Solberg is confirmed:
https://dirtfish.com/rally/erc/solbe...suit-of-title/
Breen/Nagle (MRF) are doing the full ERC so will be here.
2 years after, and after many months of recover and few races on Escort MK1, Carlos Vieira (portuguese champion of 2017) is back like course car with Sports&You C3 R5.
Surhayen Pernia / Eduardo Gonzalez
Francisco Lopez / Borja Odriozola
Both in Hyundai i20 R5
Any Portuguese teams intend to test for their next CPR round?
João Barros / Jorge Henriques in Citroën C3 R5
Callum Devine / Brian Hoy in i20 R5
Not rumour. Demoporto published the names up.
From organizer
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Garantido plantel de luxo em Fafe
na estreia do Europeu no Minho
As principais estrelas do campeonato já formalizaram a sua inscrição, como Lukyanuk, Solberg, Breen, Munster e Lindholm, entre vários outros
Já começou a contagem decrescente para o Rally Fafe Montelongo (2/4 outubro), terceira prova do FIA ERC (European Rally Championship) e a pouco mais de uma semana do arranque pode já dizer-se que está garantida a participação de um plantel de luxo. Os três primeiros classificados do Europeu, Alexey Lukianuk (Citroen C3), Oliver Solberg (VW Polo GTI) e Craig Breen (Hyundai i20) figuram entre os inscritos, aos quais se juntam outros nomes de primeiro plano do Europeu da presente temporada, como Gregoire Munster (Hyundai i20), Emil Lindholm (Skoda Fabia) ou espanhol Efren Llarena (Citroen C3).
A Miko Marczyk (Skoda Fabia) e Dominique Dinkel (Skoda Fabia), outros dos animadores do campeonato, haverá que acrescentar ainda o francês Yoann Bonato (Citroen C3), recente vencedor do Rali Mont Blanc, do Campeonato de França, que é um reconhecido especialista em provas de asfalto e promete ser um dos candidatos à discussão dos primeiros lugares . Ainda por fechar, a lista de inscritos deverá somar quase quatro dezenas de equipas, a maioria estrangeiras.
Entre os pilotos portugueses, o destaque vai para João Barros (Citroen C3), que terá oportunidade de medir forças com os pilotos do segundo campeonato mais importante da FIA nas classificativas de asfalto da região de Fafe e de Vieira do Minho.
Na estreia da região do Minho (Fafe e Vieira do Minho) no Europeu de Ralis, esta edição do “Fafe Montelongo”, organizada pelo Demoporto, será ainda pontuável no Campeonato Norte de Ralis e no Campeonato de Portugal de Clássicos de Ralis.
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Mário Castro / Ricardo Cunha in Ford Fiesta R2T
Mário is one the best (for me the best) portuguese codriver!
Zelindo Melegari in Alpine A110
Tibor Erdi in Evo X
It will be the first appearance of Alpine A110 RGT on international roads:
https://www.fiaerc.com/chazel-techno...with-melegari/
Sergio Fuentes / Alain Peña in 208 Rally4
Rumors about cancellation of this rally too.
Organizores asking to people DON´T go. Service Park, start and finish of stages closed to public.
Aloísio Monteiro in Skoda Fabia Rally2 evo
The health authority may at any time lead to the cancellation, but I hope not.
Everything depends on the region epidemiological evolution.
In more practical PDF version here - https://rallyfafemontelongo.com/wp-c...ST-FIA-ERC.pdf
Guide through stages by Mario Castro. Unfortunatelly only in portugese - https://rallyfafemontelongo.com/wp-c...rio-Castro.pdf
Good entry list, but... almost nobody from Portugal???
It was already told several times: Montelongo was a last minute entry on the ERC calendar but was never part of the national series (CPR) and it was impossible to include it as one week later there's a CPR event (Rali Vidreiro), already rescheduled after the lockdown.
With limited time (and budget), only a few national crews are able to run Montelongo but next year we'll hopefully have a larger and stronger national field as the event is expected to be replaced by the usual Rali Serras de Fafe, the CPR round run on Fafe iconic gravel roads.
As it's new rally to most of us...
Preview: https://www.fiaerc.com/erc-event-pre...fe-montelongo/
Facts: https://www.fiaerc.com/erc-rally-faf...cts-and-stats/
Test info on Devine with help from Sordo:
https://rallyfafemontelongo.com/2020...juda-de-sordo/
Video: https://youtu.be/MgPMKhYSf_Y
O.Solberg test:
https://youtu.be/A3qHrcuNEoc
Test roads are quite dusty and dirt is being pulled on with cuts. The weather forecast is wet for the end of the week so the stages could get pretty messy.