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Portugal GP

March 26, 2017, after a while Amanda's birthday comes the second race of the WBRC, instead of Sweden will be based in Portugal, soon in free practice and qualifying the Victoria team managed to do very well with the brooms, with Akko finally getting her first Pole Position, while Diana will start from second position, staying 0.225 seconds behind Kagari.

On the morning of that day the Cavendish Kagari couple was as usual waking up in the hotel where they were staying in the village of Mértola, where they were doing their personal hygiene and getting ready for the race.

- I'm glad you got your first Pole, but I want to see if you can hold on to the whole race.

Says Diana putting on her boots.

- Covis is a circuit that neither I nor you have run before, I will not give up my position so easily, even more so that it will not rain and Victoria's brooms are the best on circuits like this.

Says Akko determined and closing her race uniform.

- Actually you were taking milk from stone, Giorgina didn't qualify that far ahead and the Carlucci and Bekkerts brooms came much stronger.

Says Diana getting up.

Then the two finished getting ready and go to the hotel cafeteria, where many of the girls from Luna Nova came, especially the friends of the couple, who knew that the two were in the last year, after eating a little Diana and Akko go to the circuit, where they separate in the pits of their teams, while the students from Luna Nova, Laura and Bernadette were in the bleachers waiting for the race.

Circuit name: Circuito do Covis

Founded: 1975

Track length: 11.50 km

Number of laps: 80

Number of turns: 26

Location: Mértola, Portugal.

Last winner (1995): Laura McLaren (72) (IRE) (Carlucci)

Fastest lap (of all time): Laura McLaren (72) (IRE) (Carlucci) 0:59:678 694 km/h

The newest addition in the 2017 season taking the place of the Swedish GP as it was a very old and unpublicized track, it was decided that it was better to bring back the Covis circuit to the WBRC which was since 1995 off the calendar, it is a track that provides very high speeds which draws a lot of attention to overtaking, As well as the medium and high speed curves that require a lot of determination and courage from the runners who want to take a position using them, in these 20 years without a WBRC edition the track had some changes so it could be safe and be accepted back, thus becoming the newest track on the calendar with the first race being in 1976 and the foundation in 1975.

- And here we are again for another World Broom Racing Championship race, this time in the second round where Portugal is back to after 22 years.

Says Harriet.

- The last winner was the mother of The Flying Scot in 1995, Laura McLaren ran a perfect race that day a fantastic pace on that year.

Says Freya.

- We have already been surprised by the incredible pole position of Akko Kagari, but will Laura McLaren's daughter surprise us by bringing a victory back to the family, we even have Laura McLaren in the grandstands.

Says Harriet as she showed the grandstand with Laura waving to the camera.

Then after a few minutes, after the brooms were on the track, the racers start to do the presentation lap and line up on the grid that was in order 25/2/27/21/9/22/98/18/65/10/11/0/44/1/48/69/17/55/31/99/42/91/66/93/6, the lights go out and the start.