With the end of the first stage of Rally Madeira Legend, the double passage through a timed section of Palheiro Ferreiro with many spectators, Gil Freitas with a Subaru Impreza S14 WRC is leading the general standings. João Martins, behind the wheel of a Ford Escort Mk I is in the second position, already 41,8 seconds from the leader. Rui Conceição, in his Ford Escort RS Cosworth, is third with 15,7 seconds from the driver standing ahead of him. The last two positions of top 5 belong to Cláudio Nóbrega and Miguel Andrae, with, respectively, 1:03,2 and 1:12,0 from the leader. Throughout the first stage Marco Klenk, António Silva, Vasco Silva, Rui Cristóvão and António Abel withdrew from the competition.  Tomorrow, the second stage of this event, organized by Club Sports da Madeira, will be performed by five special stages. Rally Madeira Legend restarts at 10:38 hours with the service park, in Cais 8, at 10:43 hours. The teams will then race in Serra d’Água, at 12:04 hours, and Boaventura, at 12:48 hours, before regrouping in Quinta do Furão, at 13:18. The competition will restart at 15:48 hours for the race in Referta, at 16:11 hours; Quatro Estradas, at 16:32 hours, and Terreiro da Luta, at 16:57. The event will finish with the special stage show in Avenida Sá Carneiro, at 19:17.

The Start ceremony of Rally Madeira Legend, performed by the end of this afternoon this Friday, 29th October, has gathered many enthusiasts who did not want to miss this occasion to be close to the drivers and racing cars that are part of this sports’ history for many decades. The ceremony, as a reminder of the Rali Vinho da Madeira Start in the past, took place at Avenida Arriaga, in the centre of Funchal, in from of the headquarters of Club Sports da Madeira.

Legend Talks has gathered, in Village Legend, several personalities as well as an audience of enthusiastic fans who did not want to miss the stories and analysis of the different stages of the rallies throughout the last few decades, told and shared by a group of former drivers and co-drivers.

It’s already tomorrow, 29th October, that the Rally Madeira Legend, organized by the Club Sports da Madeira will hit the roads in its second edition and within an international scope. Besides reliving the emotions of the past motorsports, this competition will show the performance of a great list of 45 enrolled renown drivers such as the former two times World Champion Massimo Biasion, the former two times Regional Champion Rui Conceição, and other names that need no introduction as Jorge Ortigão, a former Toyota driver, as well as the main drivers of this type of national competition. The Organizing Committee of the event will also have an outstanding list of racing cars, Historic, Spirit and Legend, where a few “monsters” of group B will perform, a Lancia Delta S4 and an Audi Quattro S1 E2, as well as two WRC, all generations of the Ford Escort RS and iconic models as Renault 5 Turbo, an Opel Ascona 400, a Lancia Delta Integrale, different evolutions of an Audi Quattro and an Alpine Renault A110. The competitors with the first two types of vehicles will compete with each other, while the competitors with Legend vehicles will just race as performance drivers, without any qualification.  The program for the first day of the competition has the first Administrative and Technical Checks, being held at Praça CR7, at 10 a.m. and the group photo will happen at the same place at 6 p.m. The start ceremony will happen at 7:12 p.m. at Avenida Arriaga, in front of the organizing club, as it used to happen for many years with Rali Vinho da Madeira. As for the sports component of a competition essentially driven for the exhibition of the vehicles, the two first special stages will be fought with a double passage through the 7,20 km of Palheiro Ferreiro, between São João Latrão and Terreiro da Luta, at 8:35 p.m. and 9:38 p.m.  

Rally Madeira Legend is about to start in two days and the competition organized by Club Sports da Madeira will have some of the most mythic models of this sport. Among these, the racing cars that have had more followers and enthusiasts belong to group B, removed from the competition by the end of 1986 due to their great power, at the time with less consensus for such competitions. In group B, several brands and models raced, but among these, some remained unforgettable in a passionate public. This elite group features the Audi Quattro S1 E2 or Lancia Delta S4, vehicles that will perform in the roads of the island by the end of the week. As the latest setups within the limits of the homologation in group B, both these models have central engines, rear engine in Lancia and front engine in Audi, all-wheel drive and a minimum weight of 960kg. Delta S4 has the particular aspect of a supercharged double system in its 4 cylinder and a little less than 1.800 cc, while the German car has an engine of 5 cylinder with about 2.200 cc.