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RALLY
NEWS NO.10
Finish/Rochestown Pk/Sunday 5.30
UNOFFICIAL LEADERBOARD AFTER STAGE 14 Clonmutt-LAST STAGE
1st (1) Andrew Nesbitt/James O'Brien (Impreza WRC)
1.50.21
2nd (2) Eamonn Boland/Damien Morrissey (Impreza WRC)
1.51.49
3rd (4) Peadar Hurson/Ian Porter (Celica GT4) 1.52.50
4th (5) Donal O'Donovan/Pat Lordan (Celica GT4) 1.56.48
5th (8) Maurice Gass/Geoffrey Orr (Impreza WRC) 1.57.31
6th (19) Bob Fowden/Jerry Hynes (Lancer 5 N) 1.58.37
7th (9) Ollie O'Donovan/David Moynihan (Subaru) 1.59.19
8th (25) Dickie Curran/Anthony Donnelly (Lancer 6 N)
2.01.04
9th (7) Liam McCarthy/Kieran Murphy (Corolla WRC) 2.01.06
10th (23) Aaron MacHale/Elva Roe (Lancer 5 N) 2.01.23
11th (16) Trevor Cathers/Dessie Wilson (Lancer 5 N) 2.01.40
12th (33) Paul Alexander/Jakes Kelly (Lancer 7 N) 2.01.56
Just outside the leaderboard - 13th Pat White: 14th Nigel
Hicklin: 15th Roy White: 16th Barry Coleman: 17th Tom
Holton: 18th David James: 19th Dominic Loughran: 20th Kevin
Barrett:
"Delighted, just delighted" smiled Andrew Nesbitt
when his Pirelli shod Subaru completed the 14th and final
stage of this Murphy Construction Cork 20 International
Rally. Andrew and co driver James O'Brien not only
win the rally, but they win their 2nd Tarmac Championship
crowns, even with the Galway Ireland West event still to
come. Eamonn Boland's 2nd place today means he is runner up
in the championship. For Peadar Hurson it is quite a red
letter day to finish 3rd after a season of Tarmac
Championship retirements. The last 3 stages ran without a
hitch, organisational wise, but for several of the leading
drivers there were moments of drama. Maurice Gass's Impreza
WRC sustained a puncture in stage 12 costing well over a
minute, but the Armagh man did not lose a place. Trevor
Cathers' Lancer also sustained a puncture, and that knocked
Trevor from 8th to 13th place, Trevor hauling himself back
to 11th. The side effect of this is that Trevor does not
tie up the gpN section of the Tarmac C/ship. He can
still be beaten by Roy White, so these two must go to the
final round. Donal O'Donovan had a problem on stage 13 when
the floor pan of his Celica caught fire because of exhaust
heat. The marshals at stage finish helped to sort that out,
but it meant road penalties for Donal, happily not
affecting his position. Ollie O'Donovan got his Impreza's
centre diff changed in record time by the McKinstry
mechanics, then thumped the front left hand corner of the
Impreza on the last stage, but survived to finish 7th.
In the top Modified class of the rally, David James would
appear to be the winner. Kieran O'Neill retired earlier
with a broken wishbone on his Kadett. Padraig Price seems
to have retired also, reason as yet unknown. In the Ford
Ireland Focus C/ship section Colm Murphy is the winner.
Cathal O'Reilly retired his Focus a couple of stages from
the end. Colm was being chased by Ken Lyons, but he put his
Focus into a field. John Foley was 2nd, Oliver
Stanley 3rd. In the Kas David Lyons came
out tops with Cathal Greaney 2nd. In the Peugeot 106 Bonus
Scheme Cork man Shane McCarthy was the winner on the rally,
Eugene Meegan still leads the points. Finally for now
- many congratulations to Hugh McPhillips, Frank O'Mahony
and all at the Munster MC for providing us with such a
splendid rally this weekend. Thanks to all who supported
and helped with the RallyNews service.BRIAN & LIZ
PATTERSON www.rallynews.net
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