Magalhães looks ahead

Bruno Magalhães has already begun his preparations for the next round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge in Argentina.

With a fifth place finish on Rally Internacional de Curitiba all but secure, the Peugeot Portugal driver spent the closing stages of last week’s event experimenting with different set-ups on his Peugeot 207 Super 2000 in readiness for Rally Argentina, which runs from 19-21 March.

The three-time Portuguese champion said: “I was not confident from the beginning of the rally because it had been so long since I’d driven on gravel. When we realised we could not catch fourth but were safe in fifth we did some changes to the set-up to see what was right and what was wrong for the next rally in Argentina. Okay the events are very different but at least we know some things we didn’t know before.”

Magalhães, 29, is sixth in the IRC standings following the opening two rounds of the season.