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| RALLY NEWS NO.5 Loughrea Service/Sunday 3.45pm
UNOFFICIAL LEADERBOARD AFTER STAGE 5 Brady’s Yard There was high drama at the start of stage 5 when rally leader Charlie Donnelly suddenly found his Corolla WRC spitting out power steering fluid. Charlie had already clocked into the arrival control and this was just before the start control for the stage. It was almost a mirror re run of what happened in Donegal when Eugene was driving the car. The only difference on that occasion was that it went on fire. This time was Charlie was forced to let all the oil drain out before he started the stage. He then dropped 23s to Michael Barrable on the stage, Charlie having to drive with no power steering. As can be seen above this puts the two on overall equal time. The one great imponderable at the moment is how the organisers will treat Donnelly’s delay. In theory he is only allowed 3 minutes to get from the arrival to the start. Then penalties may be applied. The only exception is under safety grounds. On the Donegal incident Eugene’s penalties were annulled on safety grounds. Will the same happen here? We must wait and see…… Fastest through that stage 5 was Tim McNulty, Noel Redmond was 2nd fastest, Michael Barrable 3rd. Tim McNulty commented when he came into service. “We went well, still more to come, disappointed that stage 6 was cancelled because of the funeral, I’d like more stage miles”. Aaron MacHale in 3rd said “We picked a harder compound tyre, it was a whole lot better, I didn’t think I did that much wrong in that stage”. Michael Barrable was forced to fit a softer compound tyre that time and found the car a bit wandery. Niall Maguire overshot a junction and stalled his Subaru. Noel Redmond is on a real charge, has Aaron MacHale in his sights for 3rd place but at the same time is looking over his shoulder at the hard charging McNulty in 5th. Martin Doherty had a slightly poor time for that 5th stage, Martin saying “I’ve nobody or nothing to blame I just mustn’t have gone well”. Willie Fannin set the fastest group N time in stage 5, Willie saying his Impreza feels a lot better. Group N leader Gabriel Martin couldn’t get his new tyres fitted for that stage 5, went on tyres he had taken off earlier and his times suffered ever so slightly., Gabriel is determined to give it everything over the final 2 stages to try and maintain his gpN lead. Ian Barrett had turbo trouble earlier on his Lancer Evo9. He managed to get a replacement turbo fitted, but it is an Evo8 one and the car is only showing .4 bar boost inst4ead of the necessary 1.6. Kevin Kelleher had an average time through stage 5, Kevin reckoning that a couple of the other drivers had the edge because they had done the stage last year and he didn’t. PJ McGrath had an overshoot and dropped a couple of seconds in stage
5. David McNulty had a good run through the test and was 2s faster than
Sean Gallagher, these 2 having their own personal battle. Daragh Raftery
has suddenly woken up and he posted a good time in 5. Galway man Daragh’s
total now is 38.30. Maurice Moffett continues to lead the 2 wheel drive
category and class 14, Maurice saying about stage 5 “It was super
I enjoyed it immensely!” Sean Lyons is 2nd in cl.14 in his yellow
G3 Escort while Paddy Boyle is 3rd in the 2 wheel drives and leads cl.13
in his Escort. Mike Moloney was held up earlier when Ollie O’Reilly
crashed in front of him but he’s lying 2nd to Boyle in cl.13.
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