RALLY NEWS NO.1 Douglas/Thursday/Noon

The leading cars on this Rally Isle of Man will tackle the first of the planned 22 special stages around seven o’clock tonight, and then we should get a clearer picture of how the form book will look over the weekend. In theory Wexford’s Eamonn Boland, first on the road, should have a clear edge. His state of the art Subaru Impreza WRC S12B is the heavyweight of the field. However, rallying is rarely that clear cut. There may be a dearth of other world rally cars this time, but drivers such as Mark and David Higgins in their latest model Impreza N14’s, Guy Wilks and Phillip Morrow in t