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Race report by Jorge Simoes
This weekend took place in Sintra the 4th Round of the EP TC Portuguese Nationals. The track is a common fast and flowing portuguese type, although this weekend we faced some very low levels of grip due to the fact that the track was closed all month of August, the conditions were equal to everyone and I may say that it was very challenging for some teams to get the car to grip. At this round the team worked really well again and as i said before the results were soon to come and this time we got paid off. Francisco Henriques at his debut with Xray and at the championship took the overall win and T3'12 was the most used platform in the A-main grid.

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Qualifying
Sunday morning qualifying heats went through and Francisco Henriques started to show a very good pace and qualified 2nd to the A-main, José Figueiredo and Jorge Simoes qualified 7th and 8th respectively and Joao Costa qualified 10th. The mid pack in the grid doesn't really demonstrate how fast me and José Figueiredo were because of some other drivers tyres strategy, some of them used the 2 sets available to qualify to the A-main and me and José secured one fresh set for the 3 mains.

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Finals
Joao Costa only could attend one final because of some work commitments and finished 10th overall. I was struggling in the mid pack to overtake some slower drivers and finished 6th overall. José Figueiredo is still in the learning process with is new T3'12 but did a very strong 7th overall finish. Francisco Henriques had some troubles in the 1st main but managed to secure the win on the last 2 mains to finish 1st overall at the end.

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Final results:
1. Francisco Henriques - Xray T3'12
2. Hugo Miguel
3. José Carvalho
4. Helder Silva
5. Fernando Cordeiro
6. Jorge Simoes - Xray T3'12
7. José Figueiredo - Xray T3'12

8. Joao Malveiro
9. Rui Almeida
10. Joao Completo - Xray T3'12

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Set-up sheets
Jorge Simoes

Francisco Henriques