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Portugal rally-raid: new terrain, same habits
Photo Paulo Maria / DPPI
There's more to life than just the desert. The preferred surface of rally-raid, visited during the Dakar in January and the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge in February, gave way to the green meadows of southern Portugal. This new playing field, never tackled by the World Rally Raid Championship (W2RC) since its creation two years ago, fit poorly with the discipline's image. The stages were short and nervous; the longest of the five stages reached 388 km, the equivalent of an “easy” day on a Saudi Dakar. Just to add a little spice to this bacalhau, the organizers had planned a marathon stage, where all
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