Winner of the four special stages already competed, Miguel Nunes is alone in the leadership of Rali Vinho da Madeira, from the first special stages of Campo de Golfe, Palheiro Ferreiro, Boaventura and Santana. The Skoda Fabia Rally2 Evo driver has a head start of 18,3 seconds gap of the second standing, Alexandre Camacho, who wasn’t lucky with the special stages of wet and dry routes, as well as the fog.
In the third position is Ricardo Teodósio, also the third in the Portuguese Rally Championship, who didn’t have a good start in the morning, but ended up regaining the position he is now.
The driver from Algarve is followed by Bruno Magalhães, 2,1 seconds very effective with his Hyundai i20 R5. The Spanish Jan Solans, fifth, had a few drawbacks with the Special Stage in Campo de Golfe, however, he has been improving and is now the second fastest driver in Boaventura.
Armindo Araújo has a reversed performance, as he started off quite well, but had a few drawbacks during the end of the morning.
Standing out is Bernardo Sousa who, with a Skoda Fabia R5, was in eleventh position in the starting stage, nevertheless, the improvement of his performance allowed him to become the eighth in the second passage through the assistance park, right behind José Pedro Fontes, with a Citroën C3 Rally2. The two last drivers of top 10 are Miguel Correia and Pedro Paixão, who lost a lot of time in the first stage in Santana due to a puncture in one of his Skoda Fabia Rally2 Evo tyres.
