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Hi there !
I was at Estoril during the 1986 Portuguese Rally, and I must clarify that there was no Estoril Stage that year. The Rally started on the circuit but the stages were in Sintra. So Im afraid that could not happen in 1996. But even if there were some testing at Estoril earlier, most of the times they didnt took the whole circuit, but the short version...
Anyway I didnt heard nothing similar, and im sure that would be real news here in Portugal. Toivonen was really the best... I miss him a lot in Rallying... Last time I saw him was in that Portuguese Rally og 1986, when he was telling the journalists the reasons why all factory Pilots would stop racing after Joaquim Santos RS 200 accident. A few weeks later... we all know the history..
Anyway if there is someone who can confirm the story, it is the journalist Martin Holmes, very close to Toivonen and a real expert on this kind of histories.
Hope this helps...
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