Alexandre Camacho arrives in Funchal after racing the 4.th section with an advantage of 4 seconds over “Pepe” Lopez. With a good performance at the North of the island, Bruno Magalhães consolidated, for a moment, the lowest spot at the podium. Facing some difficulties at the passage by Serra d’Água, Boaventura and Santana, Giandomenico Basso is still fourth with a 15.8 seconds difference from the leader.             Miguel Nunes raced the fifth section with a 21.7 seconds delay, an important difference from Giandomenico Basso, but, also, holds a good advantage of 13.7 seconds over José Pedro Fontes, sixth and, in terms of the PRC, second. João Silva is the seventh in absolute standings followed by Armindo Araújo. Miguel Barbosa and Pedro Meireles close the top 10. Pedro Paixão won the last timed stage in this section, a Special Stage in which Ricardo Teodósio broke a car rim and lost about three and a half minutes.

23 - Vítor Sá/ Rubina Gonçalves: Mechanics 65 - Carlos Silva/ Ricardo Abreu: Mechanics

Rally Vinho Madeira, when it comes to the Coral Rally Championship of Madeira, is, at this stage, a lukewarm race with, safe a few exceptions, big differences amongst the top qualified. With five Special Stages completed, the leader was also Alexandre Camacho, followed by Miguel Nunes in second place, even if with a 23.8 seconds difference from the top competitor. At the lowest spot of the Madeiran podium was João Silva, with a 59.3 seconds difference from the lead.             Pedro Paixão, who lost a lot of time with his puncture in the first Special Stage during the morning, came fourth, more than two minutes behind the lead. Rui Pinto was one of the drivers who lost more time dealing with the fog that fell over the most of Palheiro Ferreiro 2, and came fifth with a 2 minutes and 15 seconds difference from the leader. Filipe Freitas was in the sixth position, almost 3 minutes away from the top of the standings and Vítor Sá, the uncontested leader of the RC3 group, came seventh. The top 10 standing was complete with Gil Freitas, Paulo Mendes and Bruno Fernandes. At eleventh, Paulo Nunes had an 18.5 seconds advantage over Artur Quintal in the RC4 group.    

54 - Narciso Andrade/ Rubina Andrade: Transmission

When passing by Service Park B, after the 2.nd section of Rally Vinho Madeira, Alexandre Camacho was “satisfied with his car’s behaviour. We only did small adjustments. In the afternoon, we might get some rain in the North Coast, but we will not think about that until we reach the next Service Park. On the other hand, the drivers standing behind him have shown, in most cases, some discontentment with their cars’ behaviour. Giandomenico Basso regretted not having at his disposal “the vehicles tuned to the settings we are accustomed to use in Italy. Little by little, at the Service Parks, we will be working towards that”. Having reprogramed his Hyundai I 20 R5, Miguel Nunes did not complain about “not understanding why the car isn’t exhibiting the same manner of doing curves as it had during tests. We are working with our engineers so that we can become more competitive in tomorrow’s stages”.