João Ferreira/Filipe Palmeiro in Mini T1+, Tiago Reis/Paulo Fiúza in Taurus T3 and Gonçalo Guerreiro/Pablo Huete in Polaris T4 were the fastest in the ESC Online prologue | Baja Montes Alentejanos 2025
The ESC Online Baja Montes Alentejanos 2025, a round that marks the beginning of the Portuguese All-Terrain Championship held under the auspices of the FPAK, began its sporting program this afternoon with a prologue held on the outskirts of Beja, the city where the nerve center of this race is located.
The best time, achieved on a very demanding track measuring around ten kilometers in length, was achieved by the national champion duo João Ferreira/Filipe Palmeiro in Mini, who were also the fastest in the T1+ Category. Next in the general classification, 3.4 and 6.4 seconds behind, respectively, were two Tauruses driven by former national champions Tiago Reis and Miguel Barbosa and navigated by Paulo Fiúza and Hugo Magalhães. These two drivers were 1st and 2nd in the T3 Category. Two Polaris piloted, respectively, by Gonçalo Guerreiro and João Dias, navigated by the Spaniard Pablo Huete and Rui Pita, placed themselves in the following positions, being 1st and 2nd in the T4 Category. They finished separated by 0.9s and just over 10s behind the national champion.
The Top 10 of this prologue is completed by two Toyota Hilux T1+ and three Can-Am, two T3 and one T4.
The Toyotas positioned in 6th and 8th place were driven, respectively, by João Ramos and Francisco Barreto, navigated by Jorge Carvalho and Carlos Silva. The duos Pedro Santinho Mendes/Vitor Mendes and Pedro Carvalho/Romeu Martins took the Can-Am T3 to 7th and 9th place in the prologue while Luís Cidade, navigated by Válter Cardoso, in 10th completed the podium among the T4.
Nuno Madeira/Nelson Ramos, in the Ford Ranger, in 12th place were the fastest among the T1s. The Dutch Johannes and Kala Senders, in a Fiat, achieved the best time among the T8, Sérgio Mourato/José Pereira in a Nissan prevailed among the T9 while Eduardo Rodrigues navigated by António Nunes in a Toyota Land Cruiser in Toyota prevailed among the T2.
Today's day of the ESC Online Baja TT Montes Alentejanos is completed with a group photo of all competitors and will be taken on the event's podium located at the Beja Fair and Exhibition Park, where the starting ceremony will also take place. Tomorrow, competitors will face a stretch of 169.85 km.
Automatic translation of the Portuguese version
Source CPKA / Baja TT Montes Alentejanos
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