Nyuma y'ejo, Baltar yakiriye Shakedown yo muri uyu mwaka Igiterane cya Porutugali , Shampiyona yisi ya Rally iragenda mumuhanda uyumunsi. Mu mwaka waranzwe no kugaruka (nyuma yimyaka 18) mukarere rwagati kandi cyane cyane muri Arganil, ntihabura inyungu mubyiciro bya karindwi bya shampionat kandi kubwizo mpamvu nyine, Impamvu yimodoka izaba ihari.
Ariko mugihe ibyasohotse byuyu mwaka bitasohoka mumuhanda, twibutse ibyavuye mumyaka 20 ishize. Muri videwo yasangiwe na FIA, birashoboka kubona imashini zashize zinyura mu bice bya Rally de Portugal hanyuma ukibuka amazina nka nyakwigendera Colin McRae (uzatsinda), Richard Burns cyangwa Carlos Sainz ukomeje gukora na “Kuguruka Finn” Tommi Makinen.
Mu modoka harimo Ford Focus WRC (hamwe na McRae yatsinze igiterane), SEAT Cordoba WRC, Skoda Octavia WRC, Toyota Corolla WRC, Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI WRC na Subaru Impreza WRC mugihe amakipe y'uruganda yari menshi kurenza ayo. ugenda hariya uyu munsi.
Rally de Portugal 1999 - dore videwo yo kubura.
Ibyerekeye "Gutangira Ubukonje". Kuva kuwa mbere kugeza kuwa gatanu kuri Razão Automóvel, hariho "Ubukonje butangira" saa cyenda za mugitondo. Mugihe unywa ikawa yawe cyangwa ukusanya ubutwari bwo gutangira umunsi, komeza ugendane nibintu bishimishije, amateka yamateka na videwo bijyanye nisi yimodoka. Byose mumagambo atarenze 200.