Magalhães grows in confidence in Canarias

Bruno Magalhães said his confidence behind the wheel of his Peugeot Sport Portugal 207 Super 2000 is improving all the time on round two of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge.

The 30-year-old Lisbon driver crashed out on the opening event of the season in Monte-Carlo and conceded that he has yet to rediscover the kind of form that took him to victory on Sata Rallye Açores last July.

“The car is getting better after the understeer we had at the start but I am still not totally confident after the big crash I had on Rallye Monte-Carlo and of course you lose some time because of this,” said Magalhães. “We can still find ways to improve but we lost a lot of time in the fog on the last stage. I had to put the fan onto the windscreen because I could not see anything, it was that bad.”

Magalhães and co-driver Paulo Grave are eighth overall heading into the two night stages.