Rallying-Portugal's postponed WRC round now cancelled

ByReuters

Published 30/04/2020 at 11:08 GMT+1

April 30 (Reuters) - The postponed Portuguese round of the world rally championship has now been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organisers said on Thursday.

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Portugal would have been the fifth rally of the year on May 21-24.

The Automobile Club of Portugal (ACP) said in a statement it had tried to reschedule the event for the end of October without success.

"All health and safety conditions needed to run the... Rally de Portugal in a safe way are not achievable given the unpredictable situation that we live in these days, and also the uncertainty of opening the national borders or airspace," it added.

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The ACP said the rally had an economic impact nationally of more than 142 million euros ($154.38 million) last year. ($1 = 0.9198 euros) (Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Toby Davis)

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