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Rally
News No.3 Service In Saturday 1.00pm
Unofficial
Leaderboard After Stage Four
1st (1)
Kevin Lynch/Francis Regan (Impreza WRC) 15.29
2nd (2)
Glenn Allen/Damien Connolly (Corolla WRC) 15.42
3rd (7)
Neil McCance/Sean Ferris (Lancer N) 16.25
4th (16)
John McGlaughlin/David McElroy (Lancer N) 16.30
5th (3)
Kevin O’Kane/Martin Hanna (Impreza WRC) 16.39
6th (21)
Conor Kelly/David Vance (Lancer N) 16.45
= (8) Sean
Devine/Paddy Robinson (Impreza N) 16.45
8th (27)
Tony Arnsby/Phil Cook (Lancer) 16.50
9th (10)
Eoin McErlean/Donard McCann (Lancer N) 16.52
10th (25)
Andy Magee/Joe McAleese (Escort Mk2) 16.53
11th (92)
Donagh Kelly/Kevin Flanaghan (Lancer) 16.57
= (22) Alistair
Cochrane/Pam Norris (Escort Mk2) 16.57
13th (9)
Brendan Connor/Alan Redstone (Impreza) 17.00
Kevin Lynch
continues to pull ahead ever so slightly at the front of the rally
despite the KPL Impreza still not handling to the Dungiven
businessman’s liking, Kevin describing how on right handers the car
would just snap sideways and would be very hard to pull back. Glenn
Allen arrived here at the Limavady playing fields service area with
the front of his Corolla looking slightly second hand and told us that
“I was going hard down into a chicane and we just were not getting
stopped so I saw a gap and put the car in there and hardly lost any
time, but we were lucky”. Glenn only dropped two seconds in stage
four and four in SS3 to leave Lynch just 13 seconds ahead. Behind it
is confirmed that Kieran Shaw retired his Lancer from third with no
oil pressure. Kevin O’Kane is reporting a trouble free run in his
Impreza WRC while John Donnelly had all sorts of problems in his
Escort WRC which included changing a drive shaft on the road but the
crew incurred 13 minutes in road penalties dropping them way down the
order.
John McGlaughlin
reckons he was lucky to make it back to service with his problems with
his diff wiring but also admitted to a huge moment into a ditch at a
hairpin in stage three that they were lucky to get away with. Donagh
Kelly has moved into the top ten in their GpA Lancer but is having a
strong run despite this being Donagh’s first time on gravel. Stanley
Ballentine is coming on song in the GpN race and is just off the
leaderboard on a total of 17.23. Tony Armsby has set a couple of very
fast times over stages three and four to push time up to eighth
overall and although he feels the stages are very technical compared
to his usual English forests. Sean Haveron is running very late on
the road after having to fix his Sierra Cosworth’s oil cooler out on
the road but thinks that he has gone OTL but has a stage total of
16.53 which would put him just into the top ten and admitted to nearly
rolling in Springwell in an attempt to make up the time.
Andy Magee continues
to lead the Mk2 from Alistair Cochrane with Mark Barnett on a total of
17.16. Former rally winner Trevor Moore is doing his giant killing
thing once again in the class six Escort despite loosing third gear
and having Dickie Curran as a co driver the pair are setting the roads
alight and lie just off the leaderboard on a total of 17.02. More
News Later Michael Paterson & Zoe Todd |
