Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2021

43 www.rallydeportugal.pt 20-23 / 05 / 2021 43 V odafone Rally de Portugal is the second race for the Portuguese Rally Championship in 2021. After the start of the season for drivers in this competition on the first weekend of May, the Portuguese teams enter the new round on dirt roads and there is a handful of drivers with aspirations for victory. Ricardo Teodósio is the championship leader afterwinning the first race of the year. The driver of The Skoda Fabia R5 is one of the candidates for victory among those who run the Campeonato de Portugal de Rallies, but has in Armindo Araújo, current champion and second place, one of the main rivals in the quest for victory. The driver of Santo Tirso presents himself, at the beginning of the Vodafone Rally of Portugal, with a car that is equal to that of Theodosius and also seeks to revive the years in which he competed regularly in the World Championship. Notice should be made to the fact that Araújo has among his achievements two world titles of Grupo N. Miguel Correia, also in Skoda, has grown a lot as a driver in recent years and, after his performance in the first rally of the year, seeks to drive again among the best. A place on the podiumwill certainly be in his mind. Bruno Magalhães, who has also been champion several times, wants to offer the victory to Hyundai, while Bernardo Sousa (Skoda), José Pedro Fontes (Citroën) and Pedro Meireles (Volkswagen) are all drivers who have already won championships and want to get a good result so as to aspire to a new title at the end of the year. Vodafone Rally de Portugal also scores for the Peugeot Rally Iberian Cup. The monobrand trophy has been the main launching pad for new values in Portugal and Spain and, in this edition, has almost two dozen subscribers. Among these is the leader of the Peugeot Rally Cup Ibérica, Oscar Palomo, but so is also Miguel Campos, a driver with a long resume, andwho occupies the second place in the competition. SEVERAL CANDIDATES LOOKING FOR MAXIMUM POINTS