Yeray Lemes and Aitor Cambeiro are still on a roll and become winners with the Porsche 911-GT3 of the VIII Rallye Villa de Teguise. Second place was obtained by another team from Lanzarote, formed by Toñín Suárez and Jorge Cedrés, also with a Porsche. In addition, Miguel Suárez and Eduardo González have completed the podium with the Citroen C3 Rally2, breaking their bad luck in regional rallies.
The third victory has also been for Yeray Lemes, the home race of the Lanzarote driver, this time co-piloted by Aitor Cambeiro, who adds his first victory here. Lemes used the Porsche 911 GT3 on this occasion, achieving five of the six scratches per section, since he only missed the last special stage by doing a half spin, a special that Miguel Suárez and Eduardo González won with the Citroen C3 Rally 2, in what means their first scratch of this season. Lemes has added a new triumph to his long list of achievements this Saturday and has three out of three so far in 2024. Regarding the Teguise Rally, he won the first edition with a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo, last year with the Citroen C3 Rally2 and this last one with the Porsche.
The second position was for another team of Toñín Suárez and Jorge Cedrés with Porsche 911 GT3, who after a quiet start was increasing the pace and soon took over the second step of the podium, ahead of the current team from La Palma and Gran Canaria, champions of the Canary Islands, Suárez-González, who could in Lanzarote with the similar mount of Oscar Cabrera and Luis Ferrer, fourth overall. Fifth throughout the rally were the Gran Canaria drivers Julio Martínez and Pedro Viera, with another Porsche 911 GT3. Success also for the team of 'Sport&You' Canarias, with three of their cars among the top four finishers, including the winner of this edition.
Therefore, the podium at mid-morning was consolidated without changes throughout the afternoon. And the classification remained as it was until the fifth place overall. Just from the sixth onwards, the most substantial change occurred, as Javi Cañada and Aday Ortiz overtook Juan Carlos de la Cruz and Kimberley González in that position and also won the first round of the year of the 'Rally&You BP Ultimate-Plus Car Cup', a difference that was reduced to 4.7 seconds after the final show stage. Good demonstration running at home by the winner of the Volante FALP 2024 and who recently debuted within the Clio Trophy Spain at the last Rallye Sierra Morena, with a podium place achieved.
Third position in this section for Alejandro Martín (Volante FALP 2023 and champions of the aforementioned Clio Trophy Spain last year), with Pedro Domínguez as co-driver. In addition to a ninth overall, as Oscar Curbelo and Raúl Martín got in the middle, eighth with the Renault Megane. Another team of the Peugeot 208 and Opel Corsa, Héctor Mederos and Miguel Reverón, were tenth overall and fourth in this cup, also demonstrating that they won the Clio Trophy Canarias last year for a reason.
In the FALP Promotion Trophy, Luzmi Santana and Taydía Santana won alone with the Skoda Fabia N3, recovering from their bad luck in the past 'Villa de Santa Brígida'.
Leaders from the first section of the morning
After three of the six scheduled timed sections, the Villa de Teguise Rally is heading towards its second part with the clear leadership of the Porsche 911 GT3 of Yeray Lemes and Aitor Cambeiro, who already have an advantage in their favor at the head of the classification of 23.8 seconds, including a penalty of ten seconds for delay at the exit of the work park, as they had to repair a brake caliper of the Porsche at the last minute. Lemes won in the three specials held in the morning and continued his leader pace in the afternoon stages.
With identical mount, the also Lanzarote drivers Toñín Suárez and Jorge Cedrés, are going from less to more and are already placed in the second provisional place, with a "cushion" of 11.6 seconds over the occupants of the third step of the podium, the team from La Palma-Gran Canaria formed by Miguel Suárez and Eduardo González, in their first kilometers of timed sections after their bad luck in the two regional rallies held this season 2024, which in turn keep at bay the other Citroen C3 Rally2, that of the Lanzarote drivers Oscr Cabrera and Luis Ferrer, fourth provisional.
The group of the top five overall is completed by the Gran Canaria team of Julio Martínez and Pedro Viera, with the third Porsche 911 GT3 competing in Teguise.
From here come the fast 10 teams with the Rally4 within the Rally&You BP Ultimate and Plus Car Cup, which after the first three sections the fight seems to have been reduced between the leader Juan Carlos de la Cruz and Kimberley González, by only half a second over the champions of last year in this event of the Peugeot 208 and Opel Corsa, Javier Cañada and Aday Ortiz.
Several retired and a couple of strong scares
Highlight that TC2 "Costa Teguise-Lanzagrava" was neutralized as a result of the road exit of the team of Rayco Rodríguez-Alvaro Rosario, with Citroen DS3T, which only the first six teams completed. Driver and co-driver were unharmed despite the strong "rollover".
The other section held this morning, "Tabayesco-Cajasiete", also of 14.5 kilometers, was developed normally within the organization of the CD. Manguia Motor Sport. In the afternoon, the Costa Teguise section was repeated and it ended with the show section in the Agroindustrial Complex, headquarters of the event.
The race events were a few and led to several retirements due to breakdowns in their cars, such as the drivers Jonay Quintero, Francisco Arráez, Julián Arrocha, Martín Oreste Robayna, Camilo González, Pedro Luzardo and Suso Lemes, although some managed to solve the breakdown and continue competing out of classification after rejoining.
Another important rollover occurred in the afternoon and had as protagonist the team number 24 of Alejandro Betancort-Héctor Cedrés, in the area of the Guatiza cemetery (El Mojón), within the TC4 Costa Teguise-Lanzagrava section. Both were evacuated to the general hospital for a more detailed observation, although they did not present injuries of importance a priori.
