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RALLY NEWS
NO.12 Service/Millstreet/Sunday 2.30
UNOFFICIAL LEADERBOARD AFTER STAGE 13
1st (2) Andrew Nesbitt/James O'Brien (Subaru WRC) 2.06.52
2nd (1) Ian Greer/Dean Beckett (Corolla WRC) 2.09.11
3rd (3) Austin McHale/Joe Downey (Corolla WRC) 2.10.18
4th (4) Frank Meagher/Dermot O'Gorman (Focus WRC) 2.11.07
5th (5) Kenny McKinstry/Sean Mullally (Subaru WRC) 2.12.04
6th (14) Niall McShea/Michael Orr (Saxo) 2.14.06
7th (24) Roy White/Des Cooney (Lancer N) 2.18.25
8th (10) Sean McArdle/Paul McCann (Celica) 2.21.40
9th (31) John Dempsey/Adrian Foley (Subaru) 2.23.28
10th (35) Nigel Hickland/Sam McMullan (LancerN) 2.24.07
MODIFIEDS
1st (18) Eugene Donnelly/Paul Nagle (Escort G3) 2.18.53
2nd (67) Sean Gallagher/Liam Costello(Esc.Cos) 2.19.39
3rd (32) Tim O'Riordan/Don Montgomery(Sierra) 2.24.34
4th (33) Kieran O'Neill/Diarmuid Falvey(Kadett) 2.25.06
Frank Meagher and Austin McHale were joint fastest through stage
12, Andrew Nesbitt re-exerted his authority by setting fastest
time in stage 13, Dromree, 4s up on Meagher. Andrew told us here
at Millstreet service "We're hitting our own pace now, it
was a great race earlier". The Cross Refrigeration
man went on to say that his big rush at the end of Musheramore
was to change the Pirellis before the start of stage 12, and
he laughed when he said it wasn't worth the trouble, because
the tyres he had on worked better than the tyres he changed to.
It was interesting to see Austin McHale setting joint fastest
through stage 12 - the 5 times Tarmac Champion was in a lot better
frame of mind when he told us "The front differential wasn't
working at all, we changed the setting in the brains and it's
like a new car". It has been noticeable that Ian Greer's
times went off the boil after setting some fastest times yesterday.
Co driver Dean Beckett explaining "We've been messing about
with the suspension, a click up a click down, it really is a
new car to us and the medium and fast corners are more or less
flat out. We got off on the wrong foot this morning and
we had a bit of an overshoot but otherwise everything is OK".
Frank Meagher has recovered well from his stage 11 puncture and
reports no problems now. Kenny McKinstry had an overshoot
in stage 12 and tells us he had a good clean run through
stage 13, but for some reason the time was not great. Niall
McShea said "We're having good old fun, the brakes are on
the limit but OK".
Despite a slightly slow time through stage 13, Roy White continues
to lead gpN comfortably. Nigel Hickland is 2nd in the category,
he also had a slow time but it was through a puncture. Padraig
Price went off the road in stage 12 and blocked the stage - this
played into Kieran O'Neill's hands as his Kadett was in a field
just up the road, and it gave him the breathing space to get
back on the road with no time loss. Johnny O'Sullivan has
got his clutch problems sorted and he has speeded up again. Despite
a puncture John O'Dowd still leads FORD KA championship contenders
from Oliver Stanley, John Carroll 3rd.. More later..BRIAN AND
LIZ PATTERSON (many thanks to Subaru Irl. for tea and sandwiches
- grand job!) |
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