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Those customers booking a self-drive package with us to Rally Portugal will receive one of our much sought after Rally Information Packs which will contain the following:

- Review of the WRC season to date
- List of previous event winners
- 2 page history of the rally and past events
- Full Entry List
- Detailed Rally Itinerary
- General Information about the country, resort, hotel, and excursions
- Information on Driving abroad
- General Information about the rally service area, Parc-Ferme, Rules & Regs etc.
- GPS SatNav Co-ordinates of ALL the Spectator Areas
- Spectating Information on ALL of the viewing areas on the stages.
- Colour A3 Overview map showing all the rally stages (as used by the WRC teams)
- Accommodation Voucher
- Detailed directions from the airport to your accommodation
- 10% On-event Merchandising Discount Card (www.rallyemerchandise.com)
- Souvenir Copy of the official Rally Programme (one per hire car)

Please don't confuse our Info Packs with others available - we are the only company to send staff out to drive over the actual rally stages in the weeks prior to the rally to make detailed notes and directions for you.

Please see below an excerpt from our 2007 Info Pack which demonstrates the detail we include:

SS2 & 5 Tavira 1 & 2 19.92km

Spectator Area ZE2 - Recommended

Directions from Vilamoura

At the ‘McDonalds’ junction highlighted on the enclosed Vilamoura street-map, turn right at the junction signed to ‘Lusart & Centro Medico’ & ‘Quarteira’ onto the ‘Rua de Sol’.

RESET TRIP at this turning & check that ‘Chicos’ restaurant is on your left after 0.1km…

0.5km Turn Right at T-junction signed ‘Loule’ & ‘Quarteira’

0.7km (Stadium on right)

0.8km Into left-hand lane & straight-on a traffic lights to ‘Qutros Destinos’

2.0km Straight-on at roundabout

2.3km Left at roundabout / 3rd Exit signed ‘Faro Airport’ & ‘A22’ (BP garage)

3.8km Straight-on at roundabout to ‘N396’ & ‘Loule’

6.5km Straight-on at traffic lights (across the N125) to ‘N396 Loule / A2 Lisboa'

7.3km (Over railway bridge)

8.8km Turn Right for ‘N396 Loule / A22’

9.2km Get into right-hand lane for ‘Lisboa / Faro / A22’

9.5km Turn off right for ‘Faro/Espanha’ & join M’way (A22) – RESET TRIP to ZERO

4.9km Ignore the turn off at Junction 13 to ‘N125 Faro Airport + Estadio (Stadium)’

12.0km Ignore the turn off at Junction 14 to ‘N2 / Faro’

23.9km Ignore the turn off at Junction 15 to ‘N125 / Olhao’ & keep following ‘Espanha / A22 Tavira’.

34.8km Turn Off at Junction 16 for ‘N270 Tavira’

35.3km Straight-on at roundabout (3rd exit) to ‘N270 Tavira’

39.0km Turn Left at roundabout (3rd exit) to ‘N125 VRS to Antonio’

40.0km Straight-on over river

40.4km Immediate after bridge Turn Left to ‘Tavira / Cachopo’

40.6km Turn Right at T-junction to ‘Cachopo’

43.4km Keep left to ‘Cachopo’

44.1km Under Motorway bridge

60.0km Keep left and ignore the right turn to ‘Tafe / Beliche’ (used to access SS3)

63.7km Turn Left to ‘Alcaria do Cume’

Then 1.2km to stage along the tarmac road (fairly level walk if required) with a bar/café on
the left at 0.8km. Approaching the stage from the bar/café mentioned above there is a right-hand bend (see photo left) on the main tarmac road with a gravel track off to the left which leads directly to the stage (50m) at a Hairpin-Left.

At the hairpin-left (see photo below), which was used on the rally last year and features on the Rally Portugal page of our website (white Subaru), the cars come along the edge of the valley and are visible for quite a distance before they turn through the hairpin and then climb steep uphill to the next section. There is some banking around the hairpin and other places to watch from before and after the corner. The views from the hillside shown below before the hairpin should be quite dramatic as the cars come up from area ZE1.