RALLY
NEWS NO.4 Service/St Angelo/Saturday 2.20
UNOFFICIAL LEADERBOARD AFTER STAGE 3 GLENBOY
1st
(7) Matthew Wilson/Michael Orr (Focus WRC) 35.31.4
2ND
(6) Eamonn Boland/Francis Regan (Focus WRC) 35.39.4
3RD
(4) Kevin Lynch/Allan Harryman (Impreza WRC) 36.06.3
4TH
(9) Glenn Allen/Damien Connolly (Corolla WRC) 37.10.8
5TH
(1) Daniel Carlsson/Mattias Andersson (Lancer N) 37.25.6
6TH
(2) Freddy Loix/Robin Buysmans (Ignis) 37.34.7
7TH
(11) Garry Jennings/Rory Kennedy (Lancer N) 37.39.9
8TH
(23) Aaron MacHale/Ger McMonagle (Lancer N) 37.41.7
9TH
(16) Roy White/Stephen McAuley (Lancer N) 37.48.0
10TH
(14) Shaun Gallagher/Charlie McGinty (Lancer N) 37.58.8
Young
Matthew Wilson punched the air with delight at the news that he had
set fastest time on stage 3 of this Rally Ireland to move into the
lead. That 3rd stage, Glenboy, had fast sections and also
tough bumpy places. Kevin Lynch had a real good go at the stage and
was perhaps slightly disappointed to have dropped 13s to Wilson and
4s to Boland. Kevin saying “We were steady enough, had a go, it was
a hairy stage but the tyres worked. There were some fairly nasty
bumps and jumps, not good for my back. There was one junction where
the arrows seemed to be pointing slightly downwards and I thought
maybe it was tighter than what it actually was, we could have made a
few seconds there”.
Freddy Loix
was slightly down the time sheets on that 3rd stage, the
Belgian driver feeling that the stage was too quick for the car, and
he just ran out of revs. Swedish driver Daniel Carlsson showed some
real world championship form on that one and left the group N
opposition gasping for breath.
Early news
from stage 4 indicates that Kevin Lynch was 6s faster than Matthew
Wilson with Eamonn Boland a further 13s back. The bad news for
local fans is that Garry Jennings has reportedly retired his Lancer
with gearbox trouble while Shaun Gallagher’s Lancer is also in
gearbox bother.
News from
earlier is that Brian O’Mahony has retired his Ford Puma S1600 when
he got caught out on shiny tar at the piece of road past the lake on
stage 1 and hit a wall.
More news
later
BRIAN &
LIZ PATTERSON
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