The rally de Portugal will end Sunday with the passage on the ps of Felgueiras (repeated twice) fitting (one step) e Bullfinchtwo passes, the second valid as Power StagAnd. The total kilometers of special stages are 330,16.
The protagonists: twelve Rally1s at the start
There are about a hundred registered for the race in Portugal and of these 12 start with the new Rally1.
Kalle Rovamperä appears in Portugal as leader of the drivers’ standings (76), followed by Neuville with a diptych of 29 points. Followed by Breen (30) and Tanak tied with Loeb, the latter returning after having participated and won only the first race of the Championship.
A great return, that of Loeb and Ogier who, after battling each other on the difficult snow and ice surfaces of the Monte (opening race of the season), return to the dirt roads of Portugal and the eyes of fans from all over the world will certainly be on They.
50 years of the Wrc
The fourth round of WRC2022 is also the “excuse” to celebrate the WRC’s fiftieth anniversary. Present important names that have made the history of this discipline: Petter Solberg, Marcus Grönholm, Carlos Sainz, Ari Vatanen, Walter Röhrl, and the Italian Miki Biasion, two-time world winner at the end of the Eighties. As their special co-drivers, they will board historic cars, such as FIA vice president with responsibility for sport Robert Reid, and then Luis Moya, Christian Geistdörfer, Tiziano Siviero, Timo Rautiainen, Derek Ringer, David Richards and Martin Järveoja. There is also space for women who have made the history of world races, such as the legendary crew formed by Michèle Mouton and “our” Fabrizia Pons, the only ones to have won a WRC appointment together, and then Louise-Aitken-Walker, Isolde Holderied and the navigators Tina Thörner and Christine Driano.