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RALLY NEWS NO.4 Service Balllynakeery/Saturday 12.30
UNOFFICIAL LEADERBOARD AFTER STAGE 3 Butter Road 2
1st (5) Guy Wilks/Phil Pugh (Impreza WRC) 29.10.1
2nd (2) Mark Higgins/Rory Kennedy (Impreza WRC) 29.22.0
3rd (1) Markko Martin/Dave Senior (Impreza WRC) 29.48.1
Updated leaderboard after stage 2:
1st Guy Wilks 2nd Mark Higgins 3rd Markko Martin 4th Gareth Jones
5th Andrew Nesbitt 6th Eamonn Boland 7th Eugene Donnelly 8th Andreas
Mikkelsen 9th Austin MacHale 10th Ray Breen
The news from the end of stage 3 is that Guy Wilks was fastest and
reports no problems. Mark Higgins was 2nd fastest and Markko Martin
3rd fastest. Having said that, we have no time as yet for Gareth
Jones who is on a bit of a charge. There was heavy rain falling
and Norwegian driver Mikkelsen was having wiper trouble. Eamonn
Boland stopped and retired from the rally, his Focus WRC suffering
fuel injector problems. David James retired earlier with a small
engine fire in his Focus. Liam McCarthy’s Corolla WRC had
rear body work damage but was continuing. This was after a truck
ran into the Murphy Construction backed car on a road section.
Group N after stage 2 was led by Colm Murphy from James Foley with
Roy White 3rd. Young Keith Cronin was 4th, Alan Ring 5th just ahead
of Willie Fannin. Kevin O’Donoghue is running with No.154
on his Lancer and he is right in amongst the leaders. James O’Sullivan
has had fuel pressure problems with his Lancer and he has lost a
lot of time.
The later runners coming off stage 2 reported a lot of muck on the
road, the leading cars pulling out grass and mud from the verges.
Kieran Marshall reports a return of his engine sensor problem and
he is struggling to keep his Civic going, Kieran hoping to clinch
his class on the Pirelli Tarmac C/ship today.
On the Bushwhacker Rally Kevin Lynch was leading Glenn Allen by
10s after stage 2 with Robbie McGurk 3rd, Raymond Johnston 4th,
Sean Devine 5th and rally sponsor Brian McGillin 6th. Stephen Moore
tumbled his Focus on the first stage and blocked the road. Kris
Meeke phoned us to find out how Cork 20 was going and told us he
is having a ball in the OO Escort and set equal time with Robbie
McGurk on the first stage.
More news later.
BRIAN & LIZ PATTERSON www.rallynews.net (with thanks to Ciara
Conlan & Martin Brady)
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