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Rally News
No.4 End Of Stage Six Cam Saturday 2.45pm
Unofficial Leaderboard After Stage Six
1st (1) Kevin Lynch/Francis Regan (Impreza WRC) 25.34
2nd (2) Glenn Allen/Damien Connolly (Corolla WRC) 25.49
3rd (7) Neil McCance/Sean Ferris (Lancer N) 27.08
4th (16) John McGlaughlin/David McElroy (Lancer N) 27.16
5th (3) Kevin O’Kane/Martin Hanna (Impreza WRC) 27.29
6th (27) Tony Arnsby/Phil Cook (Lancer) 27.36
7th (21) Conor Kelly/David Vance (Lancer N) 27.47
8th (8) Sean Devine/Paddy Robinson (Impreza N) 27.48
9th (25) Andy Magee/Joe McAleese (Escort Mk2) 28.01
10th (9) Brendan Connor/Alan Redstone (Impreza) 28.05
Kevin Lynch has shown a chink in his armour when the KPL man made
an error at the chicane in the second run through Cam Forest (SS6).
Lynch was two seconds faster than Glenn Allen over stage five but his
indiscretion in SS6 saw him only tie for equal fastest to leave his
leading advantage at 15 seconds. Kevin was fairly cool about the
whole thing and asked to have the car checked for any damage and it
looks like only the cill needing minor repairs. In the meantime the
Stan Harper mechanics refettled the Impreza in service and Lynch
reckons the car is now handling perfectly. Glenn Allen really enjoyed
his run through the second attempt at the short Cam and was equally
pleased to match Lynch through stage six. Tony Armsby is now making
real progress up the leaderboard and reckons he can’t go much quicker,
the Englishman saying “even though we have a GpA restrictor on the
car, we only have GpN suspension and we are driving to the limits of
that”.
Neil McCance pulled out all the stops over stage six to extend his
GpN lead to eight seconds when he took another four seconds from John
McGlaughlin, Neil telling us that “the Pirelli tyres are working
really well – that was a much better run – much cleaner” and was
interested to see how John McGlaughlin got on. McGlaughlin having
sorted out his diff problems was pleased with his speed despite
dropping time to McCance and told us “I wouldn’t want to be pushing
much harder than that, but we had a good run”. The second run through
the long Cam (SS6) is certainly taking no prisoners with Eoin McErlean
reportedly stuck in the mud in the middle of the stage but following
drivers think he may get going again. Also reportedly off the road is
Donagh Kelly in his Lancer after a good run.
Andy Magee is having a real good run to lead the 2wd’s from Mark
Barnett after it is reported that Alistair Cochrane has taken a wheel
off his Mk2 in SS6. No other times for the 2wd cars but Bob Riddles
and Trevor Moore are both still going very strongly.
More News Later Michael Patterson & Zoe Todd
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