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RALLY NEWS NO.6
Clonakilty-Sunday
09.30
UNOFFICIAL LEADERBOARD AFTER STAGE 8 (overnight)
1st (3) Melvyn Evans/Alun Davies (Escort WRC) 1.00.10
2nd (18) Steve Fleck/Mark Aspinall (Subaru Impreza) 1.00.44
3rd (4) Pete Doughty/Tim Sturla (Subaru Impreza) 1.01.03
4th (6) Jim Harrison/Harvey Bell (Subaru Imp.WRC) 1.01.16
5TH (1) John Price/Caroline Price (6R4) 1.01.42
6TH (8) Tommy Graham/Sean Mullally (Subaru Imp.WRC) 1.02.02
7TH (12) Ollie O'Donovan/David Moynihan (Subaru Legacy)
1.02.30
8TH (14) JJ Fleming/Robbie Ward (Subaru Imp.WRC) 1.02.53
9TH (7) Tony Davies/Brian Hardie (6R4) 1.03.10
10TH (20) Phil Collins/Howard Davies (Escort) 1.03.13
11TH (46) Mark Morgan/Tony Fisher (Lancer N) 1.03.18
12th (19) Derek Smith/Daragh Cafferky (Escort) 1.03.43
13th (16) Peter Lloyd/Martin Henry (6R4) 1.04.22
14th (47) Andrew Hadden/Mark Solloway (Lancer N) 1.04.23
15th (37) Barry Coleman/Alan Russell (Impreza) 1.04.26
Overnight class leaders include - David Parle leading class
2 in his Civic from Ed O'Neill. Mark Morgan leads group N
in his Lancer Evo7 from Andrew Hadden with Dean Williams
3rd. Emily O'Mahony leads class 5 in her Ford Ka - Frank's
daughter being the only one left in the class. Max
McKillen leads class 6 in his Citroen Saxo and is lying
17th overall, Max is almost 6 minutes up on 2nd in class
David Kidd in a Peugeot 106. Stephen Cleary is 3rd in
another Peugeot. Pete & Jo Johnson lead class 7 in
their Astra. Former National Champion, from way
back, James Doherty is showing a bit of his old flair to
lead cl.9 in a Corsa with Nigel Pugh 2nd in a Micra and
Tony McCaul 3rd in an Astra. Jerry O'Mahony leads cl.10 in
an Escort from Philip Cross (Sunbeam), Colm Noonan 3rd in a
205. John Foley Jnr. leads cl.11 from Tim O'Donovan
with Wm. Kenneally 3rd, 2 Corollas and an Escort. John
Shanahan is shown as well down in the class with a bucket
of road penalties, otherwise he would be leading that
class. Tim McCarthy leads cl.12 in his G3 Escort from
Diarmuid Keohane with Martin Daly 3rd. 023 Tiles Southern 4
series is, at the minute, led by Tommy Graham from Ollie
O'Donovan, Kieran O'Neill 3rd. 023 man James O'Sullivan
retired yesterday with axle trouble.
Kieran O'Neill leads class 13 from Dewi Bowen with Willie
McCarthy 3rd. Phil Collins leads class 14 from Derek
Smith with Douglas Richardson 3rd. Richard Suff leads
cl.16. While in the Historic section of the rally John
Keatley leads in his Ford RS1600 from Conor Falvey, also in
an Escort, with Gerard McCarthy 3rd in a TR7. Historic
retirements include Drexel Gillespie and John Farrell, both
with transmission trouble, while Donal McGrath also
retired.
Interesting overall placings include….Sean Keenan in
16th, after having turbo problems with his TTI run Celica.
John Cope is 18th. Kieran O'Neill 19th and Stephen Carway
20th. Tim O'Riordan decided to retire his Escort Cosworth
at service last night because of transmission worries.
Barry Coleman is shown as 28th on the overnight results,
but that includes a road penalty, which is being removed.
More news later..BRIAN & LIZ PATTERSON
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