 It's been an epic week of racing through spectacular Portuguese terrain, but we're not done yet. Welcome to the final day of the 2024 BP Ultimate Rally Ray. And so, the last test of this year's BP Ultimate and just 105km of competitive action left to run, finishing in the Bivouac in Grandola. There's no question that Portugal and Spain has thrown everything at the riders for the last 5 days, but there was still a job to do today. Drop it now, and all the hard work over the past week will be in vain. Adrian Van Beveren has had a consistent week in Portugal. It hasn't been without issues though. Day one cost him beer, picking up multiple time penalties. He had to ride hard to get back in the fight, but he did just that, finishing in style a stage win today and fifth overall in the rally. Antonio Maio on the Yamaha has certainly raised a few eyebrows this week. Taking the stage win yesterday, the local hero has been in the fight with the manufacturer teams here on his home turf. A spectacular effort, and Maio confirmed in fourth place overall here in Portugal. But he wasn't the only man the home crowd was cheering on. Bruno Santos competing in the Rally 2 category has been impeccable. Riding the Husqvarna machine, Santos not only took convincing victory in Rally 2, but made it a double podium this weekend by finishing third overall, beating Rally GP regulars and the Rally 2 back in the fight. Yeah, something came on the week and amazing race and amazing stages every day, every day different. I'm very happy with this result. It's a privilege for me to be one of them and keep fighting like I fight every day here. Second in Rally 2, but with Santos not competing in the W2RC Championship, that means South Africa's Bradley Cox takes maximum points for the Rally 2 series. While in Rally 3 it has been a family affair from the word go. The Amaral brothers fighting it out for victory, the final spoils going to Gonzalo just under 10 minutes ahead of his sibling Salvador. Back up at the business end and in the fight for the overall win, it has been Honda vs. Hero here in Portugal. And after a great start to the year for the Indian manufacturer, Hero would have to settle for second this time or beat a creditable one at the hands of Sebastian Hüner, the German runner-up by just over four and a half minutes. It was really nice to race in Portugal, it's incredible. All we know how the Portuguese fans are. And even during the week the stage was full of people, so thanks to them also for pushing for us all the time. And that just left Tosha Soraya. It has been a completely hopeless effort for this family of three stage wins, including the Prologue. He has led the bike category overall from start to finish on the Honda. A dominating performance, Shirayna wins the VP Ultimate Rally Rate 2024. The first victory is super special for me. Super special to be here in the final straight with taking the victory. Super happy for me, for the team. Big part of the team is from here in Portugal, so super happy. So after five hard days racing, this is how it all stacked up. Shirayna's final winning margin of four minutes and 38 seconds from Pula, with Bruno Santos scoring an exceptional third place ahead of Maio and Van Beveren. Which means Ross Branch, who finished seventh here in Portugal, continues to lead by 21 points from Van Beveren, with Dakar winner Ricky Brabeck slipping to third. And in the manufacturer series, just three points separate Honda and Hiro. Two rounds remain, it's anyone's guess who'll come out on top. What a fight we have on our hands in Rally 2. Roman Dumontier now leads just one point clear of fellow Frenchman Jean-Luc de Parc, with Bradley Cox just two further back. And finally, in Rally 3, by default, Gonzalo Amaral leads by five points from his brother Salvador, with Pedro Bianchi Prata in third. In the quad category, we all look set to celebrate another victory for Argentine's Manuel Andeyar, winning every stage and leading the rally right up until the penultimate test when he suffered major damage and dropped 40 minutes. Another stage win today, but that crash means he has to settle for fourth overall. Instead, the spoils go to Camille Viznowski. While he wasn't able to match the pace of Andeyar early on, what he was able to do was keep things stable, consistent and look after his Yamaha. Mechanical sympathy is 90% of the battle in Rally Raid and for Viznowski, his efforts have paid off. And so, his final winning margin just under six minutes from Antonas Canopkinas in second, a great effort from the Lithuanian, with Gaitan Martínez rounding out the top three. All that means Andeyar continues to lead the quad category as Canopkinas moves up to second. 14 points adrift of the top spot is game on. It's a battle of the Titans in the car categories. Championship leader Carlos Sainz versus Nasa Alatira in the fight for 2024 title honours and while Carlos currently leads the championship, Nasa can get the job done today. Things will get very tight at the top. Into the stage then and for Sainz, it was not the best start. The Spaniard was on course to take third place overall and stick that many on the podium but he wasn't able to match the pace of those around him today and began to drop time. He eventually slipped out of the top three and had to second for fourth overall. Nonetheless, he remained upbeat. It was a difficult rally but positive and I'm happy to make the race to come here to understand the rally Portugal. It was good experience. And it was this man, Lucas Morais, that grabbed our final podium spot at the final hour. By his own admission, Lucas will admit it wasn't the best start to the rally but from stage three onwards the Brazilian has been knocking on the door of top times and today he did just that. Opening up the taps to win the stage and plant himself on the podium third overall. Ahead of him came Joao Ferreira, the highest finishing mini driver and the highest finishing Portuguese driver. He's had the support of the local crowd from the get-go and rewarded them with a phenomenal effort in the ultimate category. With no way near the same amount of experience as Nasa Alatia, Ferreira has impressed everyone this weekend. Speeches, you know, all the emotions through this big tension was really, really high. A lot of pressure from our side because we are at the local, let's say like this but I think we managed quite well and I'm very happy. This is also my first race with a new partnership with Repsol so I think we will start with the right foot. And that just left Nasa Alatia. He is familiar with Portuguese territory having competed successfully in the Baja Porto Lega in the past and that experience has paid off this year. Since taking the lead of the category on stage two the Catari has not looked back but he is your ultimate class winner in Portugal. It was an amazing rally I hope you know we keep it for next year because it's very important and never we see like this spectator, you know. Thank you everyone. We are so happy. Yes, this is good. Confirmation of Alatia's victory just shy of three minutes clear of Ferreira, with Marais nicking third to make it three different manufacturers on the podium Carlos Sainz is out the top four. All that means in the championship Alatia now leads the charge with Sainz slipping to second but he's only 12 points behind with just two events remaining on this year's calendar. In the challenger class the fight was on for third place in this year's overall standings Ricardo Perrem, Alexandro Pinto and Nicolas Cavigliaso all separated by just over a minute. Cavigliaso in the tourist was the outsider coming into today in fifth place overall but the Argentinian threw absolutely everything and more at this final 105km and the risk paid off. He not only won the stage but did enough to climb up the overall leaderboard to eventually finish third. Next came local hero Armando Araujo the former world rally championship regular was a welcome addition to this year's BP Ultimate Rally Raid event and amongst stiff competition showed that he still has plenty of natural pace. The waste was fantastic it was my first event in the world championship so I finished nine overall second in the challenger so I'm really really happy with this so let's see the future. But up at the front and with all the hard work done already came Rob Caspaciuska winning stage three outright overall since then the Lithuanian did not need to push today in fact it was a veritable Sunday drive 11th fastest in the stage but no matter the main thing was wrapping up the win and that job has been ticked off. It's a big rally because it's kind of different what we're driving you know but yeah it was more technical rally but yeah we are here we finished first in our category then you know two rounds more and now we are keeping good and we're going way back. So confirmation that Betuska wins round three of the World Rally Raid Championship in the challenger class Amindaraljo confirmed in second with Kavigliaso beating Porem and Pinto to the final podium spot. Betuska now takes a commanding championship lead over America's Austin Jones who needs to keep his eye on Kavigliaso he's just five points further back and that's just left the competitors in the SSV class and what a fight it has been this year multiple stage winners and coming into this final day João Montero vs. Ricardo Romilo Portugal vs. Spain and from the outset Romilo had clearly not given up he was absolutely flat out for the full 105 kilometers of today's special and that was reflected in the stage time another win to add to his tally but it wasn't enough to close the overall gap he had to settle for second overall which meant that João Montero who has controlled the class from the front since stage one takes the win here in Portugal the local driver was desperate to get this job done on his home turf and it is mission accomplished he could be back off today finishing in style only 46 seconds slower than Romilo victory is a victory but on the Mondial race it's perfect so I need to do thanks for our team our sponsors, my family I'm so happy there is confirmation of Montero's winning margin over 13 minutes clear of Romilo with Rui Serpa in third in the championship boat it is Yassir Saidan who continues to lead despite a fairly weak here in Portugal and with that the 2024 BP Ultimate Rally Rade comes to a close congratulations to all the winners next up we head to Argentina so until then it's goodbye