Rally News No.2              End of Stage Two Cam Forest Saturday 12.15pm

Unofficial Leaderboard After Stage Two

1^st (1) Kevin Lynch/Francis Regan (Impreza WRC) 10.13

2^nd (2) Glenn Allen/Damien Connolly (Corolla WRC) 10.20

3^rd (4) Kieran Shaw/Crawford Henderson (Lancer WRC) 10.33

4^th (7) Neil McCance/Sean Ferris (Lancer N) 10.51

=   (18) Seamus Donnelly/Damien Duffin (Lancer N) 10.51

=    (16) John McGlaughlin/David McElroy (Lancer N) 10.51

7^th (3) Kevin O’Kane/Martin Hanna (Impreza WRC) 11.02

8^th (8) Sean Devine/Paddy Robinson (Impreza N) 11.05

9^th (21) Conor Kelly/David Vance (Lancer N) 11.07

10^th  (25) Andy Magee/Joe McAleese (Escort Mk2) 11.08

11^th  (17) Sean Haveron/Vincent Fergus (Sierra COS) 11.09

12^th (10) Eoin McErlean/Donard McCann (Lancer N) 11.11

Kevin Lynch was fastest over stages one and two in the KPL Impreza, two seconds faster on SS1 and a further five faster than Glenn Allen over Cam SS2.  Kevin is reporting that the Impreza is pulling badly to the left and is finding it very disconcerting.  Glenn Allen laughed when he heard that Kevin had a small problem saying “you just wait and see how fast he is” and of course he was right, while Glenn had a problem free run through the opening two tests.  Kieran Shaw was impressive through SS1 when he was joint second fastest with Glenn Allen, Kieran saying “that is some learning curve – but the car is fantastic” referring of course to his first outing on gravel in the WRC Mitsubishi.  Over the second stage it all went awry when the Lancer appeared with the oil pressure light on and the electronic dash doing all sorts of crazy things but he still set a good time but unfortunately we hear that Kieran has retired between SS2 and SS3.

Neil McCance is joint leader of GpN despite being slowed on SS1 when he got caught in a retiring Raymond Johnston’s blown turbo smoke.  Neil was also not so confident with a narrow Pirelli tyre choice on SS2 but was still the fastest GpN car.  Seamus Donnelly is showing as joint GpN leader above but we have reports that he has retired with a broken gear box in SS3.  Also gone from the GpN race is Terry McGonigle who was second fastest on SS1 but has retired on the start line of stage two with a broken clutch.  Johnny McKenna never appeared from SS2 after a good time on SS1.  John McGlaughlin is also joint leader in GpN but John reckons he has torn the wiring from his active diff and also had no rear brakes in SS2. 

Conor Kelly had two overshoots in SS2 and lies just off the leaderboard on a total of 11.16 while John Donnelly had a good time on SS1 but dropped about thirty seconds with a broken draft shaft in SS2 his total 11.24.  In 2wds Andy Magee is flying and into the top ten while Alistair Cochrane was off the road in SS2 and is on a total of 11.15 with Mark Barnett on 11.18.  English visitor Tony Armsby is having a great run just off the leaderboard despite being off the road with a big mowing moment in SS2 and his total is 11.24.  Late reports include Seamus O’Connell breaking a front wheel in SS2 and out of the rally.  More News Later Michael Patterson & Zoe Todd (thanks to Brian McCloskey)