José Amaro, president of the Motoclube de Faro, said that the festival “was positive, taking into account all the anomalies that occurred” which derived from the ban on staying in forested areas, within the scope of the state of contingency declared by the Government.

Cancellation of the event was out of the question because “it would create many difficulties for [the organisation] to fulfil all the commitments it had already made” and “it was necessary to take into account the thousands of people from all over Europe who went to the event in Faro”, said José Amaro.

"But the objectives were met, even with these restrictions", said the president of Motoclube, revealing that "the number of participants, within the enclosure itself, was about 35,000 people”.