Baja Portalegre 2021: X Rally Team enters three cars in this weekend's Baja Portalegre 500

Toyota Hilux will be the cars used by the Brazilian duos, who will also have a driver racing in one the UTVs in one of the most important races of the season.

After the victory in Sertões 2021 three X Rally Team duos are leaving for Portugal and will compete in the Baja Portalegre 500 next weekend. It will be approximately 500 km through the Alentejo region in one of the most traditional European rallies. The stage marks the final of the Portuguese championship, the FIA Baja Cross Country World Cup and the FIA Baja Cross Country European Cup. The Brazilian team will have seven representatives in four vehicles. Cristian Baumgart/Beco Andreotti, Marcos Baumgart/Kleber Cincea and Adroaldo Weisheimer/Rafael Capoani will compete in the race aboard Toyota Hilux. Fred Budtikevitz, who is Adroaldo's chief navigator, will drive a UTV.

Cristian and Beco have good memories from Portugal. It was there that the duo's first contact with the Toyota Hilux prepared by Overdrive took place. The duo won the 2020 edition of the Baja TT Capital dos Vinhos de Portugal, disputed shortly before the Sertões 2020. In the first contact with the car in Brazil, the duo formed by Marcos and Kleber, who won their first Sertões title, did better.

Adroaldo and Capoani will race together for the first time. The "Major", as Adroaldo became known, will replace Sylvio de Barros, who had an unforeseen accident in Brazil and had to postpone his participation in the competition. Adroaldo's first navigator will drive a UTV in the Portuguese competition.

This year's edition of the Baja Portalegre foresees a promotional start on Thursday (28) with public in the city center of Portalegre. On Friday (29th) the nearly 400 competitors will start to compete in fact. The cars will have a Prologue of approximately 3.5km and then another 62.5km in the first special. The rally ends on Saturday with Specials 3 and 4, with 146.2km and 197.7km, respectively.

Automatic Translation from the official X-Rally Team's press release
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