RALLY NEWS NO.3
Near Blacksticks Bar/Service/Sunday 12.30
UNOFFICIAL LEADERBOARD AFTER STAGE 3 Keelderry
1st (2) Patrick Elliott/Rory Kennedy (Impreza WRC) 24.01
2nd (1) Charlie Donnelly/Paddy Toner (Corolla WRC) 24.31
3rd (3) Aaron MacHale/Eugene O'Donnell (Focus WRC) 24.45
4th (5) Niall Maguire/Sean Mullally (Impreza WRC) 25.19
5th (135) Jack Sleator/Andrew Purcell (Impreza WRC) 25.49
6th (7) Sean Gallagher/Enda Sherry (Impreza WRC) 25.51
(9) Kevin Barrett/Barry Goodman (Impreza WRC)
25.51
8th (11) Alan Ring/Adrian Deasy (Impreza N) 25.59
(12) Willie Fannin/Mick Courtney (Impreza
N) 25.59
10th (4) Denis Cronin/Helen O'Sullivan (Impreza WRC) 26.03
Patrick Elliott has been fastest on all 3 stages so far while Charlie
Donnelly made his usual cautious start and then lost time in stage
2 when he overshot a junction. Charlie then thought he had
a good run through stage 3. However Elliott was 7s faster.
Charlie said “Its just me, everything is fine with the car
and the tyres. The overshoot was after 2 jumps and I knew I wasn’t
going to make it, I just let the car go on and reversed back”.
Patrick Elliott Commented “We made a good tyre choice, Charlie’s
bit if a mishap gave us some comfort, its going OK”.
Aaron MacHale in 3rd felt that he should have been more aggressive
in his tyre choice but otherwise going OK.
Denis Cronin isn’t going well at all, Denis seeming very unsettled
and now his Subaru is jumping out of 6th gear. Niall Maguire
is well on the pace despite feeling that he was on the wrong tyres.
Sean Gallagher in 6th place didn’t seem overly happy, his
Subaru down on power and Sean reckons that the anti lag isn’t
working properly. On the Galway Summer Rally Sean had a great
battle with David McNulty, but David has slid his Subaru off the
road in stage 2 and is out of the event. Martin Doherty would
also appear to have retired. Martin had pulled in at the side of
the road in stage 2 and following drivers reported him working at
a wheel, thought it was a puncture perhaps, but he has not appeared
here at service. Also either missing or running late is Anthony
O’Halloran. His Manta was running on 3 cylinders earlier.
Anthony has now just arrived into service, very late but still going….
Kevin Barrett has settled into his new Impreza S11 and he is well
on the pace so far.
Alan Ring finished stage 3 with bits of straw sticking out of his
Subaru, evidence of cutting a corner very tight and clipping a straw
bale. Willie Fannin was equal on time with Alan Ring through
stage 3, and was disappointed not be slightly faster. Because
of blockages following Noel Redmond’s accident and then David
McNulty’s accident competitors such as Ring and Fannin have
only got a time for stage 3. Tadgh Linehan is bedding himself
in on his first run following his Galway accident and he had a very
respectable time in stage 3, just a few seconds behind Gabriel Martin
and ahead of Kevin Kelleher.
Mike Moloney has the fastest time so far in the 2 wheel drive category,
2s up on Paul Gallagher in his Corolla with Sean Lyons a further
1s back.
More news later. BRIAN & LIZ PATTERSON www.rallynews.net |
