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RALLY
NEWS NO.7
Killarney/Sunday morning…early
UNOFFICIAL LEADERBOARD AFTER STAGE 11
1st (2) Derek McGarrity/Dermot O'Gorman (Impreza WRC) 1.20.55
2nd (5) Donie O'Sullivan/Paul Nagle (Focus WRC) 1.22.03
3rd (3) Eugene Donnelly/Paul Kiely (Corolla WRC) 1.22.26
4th (4) Austin MacHale/Brian Murphy (Focus WRC) 1.22.47
5th (6) Eamonn Boland/Damien Morrissey (LancerWRC) 1.23.04
6th (15) JJ Fleming/Robbie Ward (Impreza WRC) 1.25.26
7th (14) Denis Cronin/Helen O'Sullivan (Celica) 1.25.54
8th (18) Johnny O'Sullivan/Pat Cashman (Escort WRC) 1.26.12
9th (10) Liam McCarthy/Kieran Murphy (Corolla WRC) 1.27.16
10th (11) Pete Doughty/Allan Whittaker (Escort WRC) 1.27.24
11th (7) George Treacy/Jakes Kelly (206 WRC) 1.27.40
12th (46) Alan Ring/Greg Shinnors (Impreza N) 1.27.56
13th (30) Colm Murphy/Ger Loughrey (Impreza N) 1.28.37
14th (45) Eoin Doyle/Paul Walsh (Impreza N) 1.28.49
(27) James Foley/Lisa Roe
(Lancer N) 1.28.49
Changes to the overnight official results include Austin
MacHale moving up one place. The 1 minute penalty
applied for the alleged stage 3 jump start was reduced to 30s
in deference to the wording of the "Green Book".
Liam McCarthy's 2 minute penalty stands. On our last
Saturday RallyNews we mentioned that Eugene Donnelly seemed to
get a slower time on stage 9 than what was shown on his
timecard. It transpires that Eugene, in his massive charge to
regain the time lost when the rear prop shaft broke, beat the
"bogey time".
As can be seen above, Alan Ring leads the important Group N
category from Colm Murphy, with Eoin Doyle 3rd. Further
class leaders include: Guy Woodcock, 21st overall and leading
F2 in his Escort. Glen Wilson had led that class until
stage 9 but he lost a few seconds and is just behind the cross
channel visitor. Aidan Burke is leading cl.2 in his Civic from
Jimmy White. Jimmy hasn't been out for a while and was shaking
the rust off yesterday. Thomas O'Rourke leads cl.3 in his
Astra from Raymond Gilleece. Dominic Naughton is having
another good run in his Saxo to lead cl.6 from John Fleming.
Michael Herbert leads cl.5 in his Nissan Micra and Frank
Tuomey leads cl.1 in his Swift.
In the National part of the rally Phil Collins/Diarmuid Falvey
have a massive lead in their Escort over Fergal Allen in his
BMW M3. Brendan Brosnan is 3rd overall in the Nationals.
Interestingly, Phil Collins' performance yesterday would be
good enough to put him in 6th overall in the main rally, which
is a fairly startling show in a Mk2 Escort.
Martin Freestone/Chris Heyes lead the Historic part of the
rally from Joe & Gareth Connolly, also in an Escort. Joe
Connolly had led initially. Mike Doody is 3rd in his
Mini Cooper. Martin Ward 4th in his Manta. Frank Cunningham
5th in his Mini Cooper and Don Moynihan 6th in his Escort.
More news later. BRIAN & LIZ PATTERSON www.rallynews.net
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