JOÃO FERREIRA AND FILIPE PALMEIRO SEAL COMFORTABLE WIN IN PORTUGAL’S BAJA TT SHARISH REGUENGOS MOURÁO
The X-Raid Mini JCW Rally Plus crew gained two of the three particular phases throughout demanding rural terrain to the east of Lisbon to carve out a successful margin of 1min 11.3sec over the man Portuguese pairing of Helder Oliveira and Fausto Moto, who gained the ultimate stage of their Mini JCW Rally. Ferreira additionally sealed the Final class title within the FIA European Baja Cup with a spherical to spare after his third successive victory on the occasion and he’s the brand new chief of the Portuguese Nationwide Championship.
Ferreira stated: “It was a really tough race for us. Right this moment, after three kilometres, our energy steering pump stopped working correctly. For the fitting corners I used to be in a position to work kind of okay however to the left it was not working in any respect. It was a really powerful stage because of this. However we managed to complete despite the fact that we went off the monitor a number of instances with no energy steering. I like this race rather a lot and had gained for the final two years.”
Oliveira was not registered for the FIA European Baja Cup, so factors for second place went to the third-placed driver João Dias and his co-driver João Miranda of their Challenger category-winning Santag Racing G Rally Workforce OT3.
Dias overcame steering points on the second stage to spherical off the rostrum locations, whereas Santag Racing continues to steer the Groups’ Championship. The Portuguese additionally prolonged his benefit over Alexandro Pinto within the Challenger class of the FIA European Baja Cup and clinched the T3 title within the Portuguese Nationwide Championship.
Tiago Reis and Candido Carrera are battling for the Portuguese Championship and so they completed a detailed fourth in a Taurus T3 Max, with Alexandro Pinto and Bernardo Oliveira rounding off the highest 5 and selecting up FIA factors for third of their Can-Am.
Victory within the SSV class fell to the Polish Can-Am crew of Tomasz Bialkowski and Dariusz Baśkiewicz. They completed 46.5 seconds away from the Portuguese pairing of Rui Serpa and Rui Pita of their related Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo RR. Serpa had led the class initially of the ultimate day.
Bialkowski now leads the SSV Championship after 4 rounds following technical points on stage two for Miguel Prat Martinez, who completed down in fourth of the registered SSV drivers behind Nice Britain’s William Buller.
Because the Spaniard defined: “After 10kms of the second stage we had been attacking arduous and hit a compression that wasn’t seen. The automobile bounced, went flying and hit arduous. We began smelling gear oil and I noticed that I had damaged the entrance differential, broken a steering rod and bent the entrance chassis.”
Fernando Barreiros and Rui Antonio continued their progress in direction of a attainable FIA European Baja Cup title with one other haul of most factors for successful the Inventory class for sequence manufacturing cross-country machines of their Isuzu D-Max. The Portuguese misplaced traction on the second stage after which sustained a puncture however managed to complete the occasion in 35th total.
Fifty-three of the unique 56 crews had been permitted to start out the occasion, consisting of 19 vehicles within the Final class, 23 in Challenger, 10 in SSV and one Inventory entrant. Of these, 15 had been registered for the FIA European Baja Cup with many of the the rest chasing Portuguese Nationwide Championship factors.
Motion bought underway with a aggressive stage of 27.87km, close to Mourão, on Friday afternoon and Ferreira topped the instances with a run of 21min 08.6sec to steer the occasion by 18.2 seconds from Oliveira. Dias got here house in third and led the Challenger class however the Toyota trio of João Ramos, Francisco Barreto and Richard Timmerman all hit hassle, failed to complete the stage and had been handed 2hr 30min time penalties. A small hearth had broken Ramos’s Hilux and he, like Barreto, retired earlier than day two.
The primary of two runs by means of a assorted selective part of 160.50km was staged on Saturday afternoon between Mourão and Reguengos. Ferreira once more topped the instances, gained the stage by 2min 36sec and prolonged his cushion lead over Oliveira to 2min 54.2sec.
Dias continued to steer the Challenger part from stage winner Reis, Pinto and Miguel Barbosa and Rui Serpa topped the SSV instances from Bialkowski. Poland’s Adam Kuś (Taurus), Armindo Araújo (Can-Am) and Bernardo Sousa (Can-Am) had been amongst eight drivers who failed to finish the stage.
The timed take a look at was repeated late on Sunday morning and Oliveira claimed the stage win from Dias, Pinto, Pedro Carvalho and Tiago Reis. Ferreira was sixth however did sufficient to say victory. Turkey’s Yagiz Birinci failed to finish the stage and was handed 11hr 15min in time penalties.
The FIA European Baja Cup concludes with Baja Troia Türkiye on November 7th-10th.
Baja TT Sharish Reguengos Mourão – last end result (high 25 solely):
1. João Ferreira (PRT)/Filipe Palmeiro (PRT) Mini JCW Rally Plus 4hr 45min 11.1sec
2. Helder Oliveira (PRT)/Fausto Moto (PRT) Mini JCW Rally 4hr 46min 22.4sec*
3. João Dias (PRT)/João Miranda (PRT) G Rally Workforce OT3 4hr 47min 47.0sec
4. Tiago Reis (PRT)/Candido Carrera (ESP) Taurus T3 Max 4hr 48min 38.8sec*
5. Alexandro Pinto (PRT)/Bernardo Oliveira (PRT) Can-Am Maverick X3 4hr 49min 07.6sec
6. Miguel Barbosa (PRT)/Luis Ramalho (PRT) Taurus T3 Max 4hr 50min 36.5sec*
7. Pedro Carvalho (PRT)/Romeu Martins (PRT) Can-Am Maverick X3 4hr 50min 50.2sec*
8. Daniel Silva (PRT)/Gonçalo Magalhães (PRT) Taurus T3 Max 4hr 52min 52.8sec*
9. Alexander Ré (PRT)/Carlos Mendes (PRT) Volkswagen Amarok 4hr 53min 16.4sec*
10. Alejandro Martins (PRT)/David Monteiro (PRT) Mini JCW Rally Plus 4hr 54min 52.5sec*
11. Edgar Reis (PRT)/Fábio Ribeiro (PRT) Taurus T3 Max 4hr 54min 59.8sec*
12. Wlodzimierz Grajek (POL)/Michal Goleniewski (POL) Toyota Hilux 4hr 57min 24.4sec
13. Paulo Rodrigues (PRT)/Miguel Salvador (PRT) Can-Am Maverick X3 4hr 57min 46.5sec
14. Edgar Condenso (PRT)/Nuno Silva (PRT) Ford MO EXR05 Proto 4hr 58min 23.7sec*
15. Pim Klaassen (NLD)/Mark Laan (NLD) Taurus T3 Max 5hr 00min 04.0sec*
16. Diego Martinez (ARG)/Sergio Lafuente (URY) Can-Am Maverick X3 5hr 02min 38.6sec*
17. Tomasz Bialkowski (POL)/Dariusz Baśkiewicz (POL) Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo RR 5hr 02min 48.0sec
18. Alexandre Franco (PRT)/Rui Franco (PRT) Mercedes 350D 5hr 03min 11.0sec
19. Fernando Alvarez (ESP)/Xavier Panseri (FRA) G Rally Workforce OT3 5hr 03min 21.4sec
20. Rui Serpa (PRT)/Rui Pita (PRT) Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo RR 5hr 03min 34.5sec
21. Gaël Queralt (ESP)/Marc Sola (ESP) Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo RR 5hr 03min 38.0sec*
22. César Sequeira (PRT)/Tânia Sequeira (PRT) Mercedes 350 SLC Coupé 5hr 03min 54.6sec*
23. Rúben Rodrigues (PRT)/Rui Paulo (PRT) Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo RR 5hr 04min 58.1sec*
24. Ricardo Teodósio (PRT)/Valter Cardoso (PRT) Can-Am Maverick X3 5hr 05min 37.3sec*
25. Dave Klaassen (NLD)/Tessa Klaassen (NLD) Nissan Red0Lined Navara VK50 5hr 07min 05.4sec
*not registered for the FIA European Baja Cup
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30. William Buller (GBR)/Allan Stirling (GBR) Yamaha YXZ 1000R SS 5hr 12min 14.9sec
31. Magdalena Zajac (POL)/Blażej Czekan (POL) Toyota Hilux 5hr 16min 42.6sec
32. Miguel Prat Martinez (ESP)/Ion Del Cid (ESP) Yamaha YXZ 1000R SS 5hr 20min 16.9sec
35. Fernando Barreiros (PRT)/Rui Antonio (PRT) Isuzu D-Max 6hr 17min 01.3sec
38. Adam Kuś (POL)/Marcin Pasek (POL) Taurus T3 Max 13hr 53min 17.5sec
40. Yagiz Birinci (TUR)/Evangelos Sotirchos (GRC) Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo RR 14hr 05min 49.8sec
