Rally de Portugal confirmed on the north. The ceremonial start will be at Guimarães on the first city of portuguese nation on the place above (my photophop is not so bad :p )
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Rally de Portugal confirmed on the north. The ceremonial start will be at Guimarães on the first city of portuguese nation on the place above (my photophop is not so bad :p )
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[QUOTE=Andre Oliveira;1026527]Rally de Portugal confirmed on the north. The ceremonial start will be at Guimarães on the first city of portuguese nation on the place above (my photophop is not so bad :p )
What about legendary Fafe area stages? Any info?
CRAZY VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B865sknWdhw
1.33!!! crazy moment!!
All will be there :) Soon we will know the itinerary
Fafe stages will obviously be used (maybe twice), but if the scenery and the people's passion are the same, their behavior is totally different. Since the 90's there was a general improvement at the spectator's security levels, so there's no need to bring those videos back.Quote:
Originally Posted by satukata
Instead, take a look at this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfRonH5tN7w
Hope to see you at Fafe in June!
Citroën and Hyundai will test at Algarve, measuring differences :) The weather also are better now there :)
Unfortunately is impossible to design a rally like old Rally of Portugal.
However, It will be an opportunity for to reborn some fantastic stages where has wrote a lot of pages of world rally championship history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3FZz7w9psg
President of Municipality of Amarante said that his town will host 2 days of competition.
Ponte de Lima stages started some works of repairs.
Current road conditions for the first kilometers of Ponte de Lima's stage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCQXvWQ9KiA
16 stages in total:
Thursday: SSS Lousada
Friday: Ponte de Lima (27,45 km), Caminha (18,05 km) and Viana do Castelo (18,79 km).
Saturday: Baião (18,57 km), Marão (27,64 km) and Amarante (37,67 km).
Sunday: Fafe (11,15 km)
http://www.ralisonline.net/pt/index....wrc&Itemid=128
Full road program ==> http://bit.ly/1sqVifX
A big shame that Luílhas will not used, and Fafe only have one stage :/
But the itinerary looks ok to a great show. Lousada will be awesome.
I will see:
Lousada
Ponte de Lima 1 and 2
Amarante 1 and 2
Fafe 1 and 2
I always said I wouldn't be keen to go back to Portugal, but I'm sure Fafe will be an incredible spectacle. Hmmmmmmmmm.....
Fafe on sunday and with Power Stage will be the worst stage to follow the rally. For sure, I will have rally pass like I did on the last 2 yearsQuote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
A new video from Ponte de Lima (a few km):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYXuMSd9l84
Great road. I will be there :)
Im sorry but what a boring stage, almost no technical and twisty sections, way too fast. Santana da Serra and Almodovar way more exciting than this, regional wars aside.Quote:
Originally Posted by devil's land
The surface is far better. Let's wait the drivers opinion "regional wars" aside ;)
+1 Francis
Especially spectator-wise the stage looks uninteresting and dangerous. There are almost no places where you can have a good view without putting yourself at risk... What will organizers do for spectators? Normally put them in some spectator-areas and keep them there, like in Algarve? The problem is that this stage doesn't give organizers the opportunity to make a nice spectator-area. I was in Portugal in 2013, drove several stages (shakedown, Mu, Santana da Serra, Loulé, Silves and Almodovar completely). They were nice, especially Santana da Serra is a very difficult stages for drivers. It's a shame that both marshalls and police treated spectators like shit...
It's your opinion. For instance, this was the Didier Auriol's favourite stage. Don't forget, those are just the firsts km and it's wrong to evaluate a stage using a video.Quote:
Originally Posted by Francis44
tommeke_B you will come to watch Portugal 2015?
Not this year. Maybe next year, depending on what I see and hear from this year's edition. This year Sweden, Sardinia, Germany and Wales are already on the calendar. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
What a pity. Trust me, you will like this edition. People change a lot on this side of country. The roads are clean and repaired. Mitical places will be revisited. I like too the Algarve editions, but the WRC will don't lost nothing on this "back to origins". Hope next year you come and appreciate :)
Hope Lousada SSS will be live broadcasted, because will be one of the best SSS of last years. But now is too soon, time to MC action.
A view over a section of expected Marão stage.
http://s14.postimg.org/5eutreafl/fff.jpg
http://s29.postimg.org/5dwnbjvfb/mm3.png
Easy to go to last pic?
Koci ---> Fiesta R5
Parn ---> Fiesta R5
Rallye Portugal 2015 teaser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts...yt-cl=84411374
The quality isn't the best, but here it goes.
A small section of Marão stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb7TIOQ9GtQ
Full Baião stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNMBTutIHAI
http://zona-espectaculo.blogspot.pt/...015-mapas.html
Promo - Group B to WRC 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sno...be&app=desktop
Hi everybody,
I'm a new member on this forum.
I will come from Lyon (France) to Portugal in may and I'm so looking forward to coming here :D
Rumours about some drivers do Rali Serras de Fafe to prepare WRC event. Martin Kangur almost won last season.
I remember the SWRT, maybe between 1998 and 2000, tried to do Fafe rally but always FIA had forbidden.
Also Amarante rally will use the stages of rally 2 week before the rally Portugal.
From Rally Portugal facebook:https://www.facebook.com/rallydeport...type=1&theater
A view of Fridão stage (Mondim de Basto)
http://s21.postimg.org/4bkuqt7xz/544...33979804_n.jpg
Vieira do Minho stage
http://s21.postimg.org/nlrva8tx3/137...39123955_n.jpg
Ponte de Lima stage
http://s21.postimg.org/6wqfebxbr/103...05371270_n.jpg
Marão stage
http://s21.postimg.org/tnzi0qid3/104...46047982_n.jpg
Guimarães (cerimonial start)
http://s21.postimg.org/vaoplyuev/106...55364765_n.jpg
Caminha stage
http://s21.postimg.org/oy9kc4rcn/109...49602619_n.jpg
Marão stage
http://s21.postimg.org/oduj9fy47/109...15484472_n.jpg
Vieira do Minho stage
http://s21.postimg.org/xpln3igzb/109...48635494_n.jpg
A video from "Caminha" stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok_ATBzkSiw
I visited Portugal in 2007 and remembered the police men and marshals to be a bit "stressed" ;)
Is this the same in the north?
2007 was the first year after the WRC exclusion period of the rally. There was an extra care towards spectator behavior. Last years on the south things get a little softer but there's an expectation that on this year return to the north organizers will again apply a zero tolerance crowd control.Quote:
Originally Posted by hype
I was in Portugal 2013 and strongly disagree, for spectators it's the worst event I've been to so far (worse than France-Alsace). Police and marshalls don't have respect for spectators at all, you have a few "boxes" where you are allowed and that's it. At least that was 2013.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
Hmm well, I have to agree tommeke, 2007 Portugal actually was the worst rally I've ever visited.
I read somewhere that the north is a bit more relaxed so I already booked the flight...
Let's hope the best?
You can only be kidding!...Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
Your description called security and organization, which it's supposed to exist in a WRC event.
Or probably you prefer it that way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grrM...ature=youtu.be.
In Portugal, the areas to the public were always large enough and with all conditions for the spectatores enjoy the rally.
"Few boxes"?!.... Unbelievable!...
Are you sure that you had been in Portugal to see the rally?!...
Portugal is a really bad rally, if you don't want to be in the spectator zones. Tom is right about that, we went there once and never be back probably.