It's already next weekend, April 14, that the 2019 season of the new Portugal Skills Championship : the 1st Cereja do Fundão Expertise, organized by the Castelo Branco Escuderia.
The championship presentation was made yesterday, April 9th, by the FPAK (Portuguese Federation of Automobile and Karting), at Café Concerto at Teatro Municipal da Guarda, with the presence of Ni Amorim, president of FPAK, and Paulo Magalhães, sports coordinator of FPAK.
Also present were the clubs Associação Team Baia, Clube Automóvel da Régua, Clube Escape Livre and Guarda Unida Desportiva Clube, which also presented their respective competitions.
The 2019 Portuguese Skills Championship
The 2019 season will consist of 17 tests of expertise, two of which are under the responsibility of Clube Escape Livre — the XXI Slalom Castelo Rodrigo and the Grande Expert Automóvel Figueira Castelo Rodrigo, on 20 and 21 July, respectively, which are part of the Portuguese Championship and the Raiano de Expert/Slalom Trophy .
The district of Guarda, in fact, gains relevance in this year's calendar, with competitions also taking place in Foz Côa, Meda and in the city of Guarda itself, with the latter ending the 2019 season, on 29 September.
Ni Amorim, President of FPAKThe Portuguese Skills Championship is the third launched in the last year and ten months, after the Trial and Drift championships, followed by the Start-Up Championship. This Skills Championship is geographically distributed in a way that I find interesting, as around 80 percent of the competitions take place in the Interior, a gap that will be filled in this region.
On a technical level, the Portuguese Skills Championship foresees three distinct groups of vehicles divided into rear and front wheel drive: Prototypes, Transformed and Promotion/Originals.
The calendar
- 14 April – 1st Expertise Cereja do Fundão – Escuderia de Castelo Branco
- 27 April – 1st Cavalões Skills test – Vila Nova de Famalicão – Associação Team Baia
- May 12 – City of Tarouca Skills – Automobile Club of Lamego
- 22 June – City of Vila Real Expertise – Vila Real Automobile Club
- 23 June – Expertise São João de Tabuaço – Clube Automóvel da Régua
- 6 July – Board Expertise – Escuderia Castelo Branco
- 20 July – XXI Slalom Sprint Castelo Rodrigo – Clube Escape Livre
- 21 July – 1st Great Automobile Expertise Figueira Castelo Rodrigo – Clube Escape Livre
- August 3 – Valpaços Expertise – Clube Automóvel de Vilarandelo
- 4 August – City of Foz Côa Expertise – Foz Côa Automóvel Clube
- August 10 – Global Expertise Montalegre – Clube Automóvel de Vila Real
- August 11 – Forensics Nossa Senhora do Socorro – Clube Automóvel da Régua
- August 17 City of Mêda Expertise – Unida Sports Club
- 24 August – Expertise of Vilarandelo – Clube Automóvel de Vilarandelo
- 1 September – Cidade de Lamego Expertise – Clube Automóvel de Lamego
- 15 September – Expertise Carlos Dias – Cerva – Associação Team Baia
- September 29 – X City of Guarda Expertise – Guarda Unida Desportiva Clube