Stafford takes 1.9″ back from Cronin as there seems to be rain on the wind
James Stafford has said “enough is enough” and taken 1.7″ back out of Cronin and upped the gap to 9.2″ but there’s rain on the wind, so we will have to see what the grip will be like for the Darrian on the second visit to the Murrintown stage after 1st service this morning in the racecourse. we have seen the near demise of Mark Alcorn on this stage, he and Damian Toner are showing very slow stage times, both with times either side of 14″ which has dropped both outside the top 10, we will have to see if their service crews will get both cars back out for the second loop of stages. The big winner from this is Richard Moore, who has moved his Escort Mk2 into 6th, albeit 69.7″ adrift of Enda O’Brien in the Polo R5 in front of him.
What we have so far after SS12
Wexford Stages Rally, 2023 Interim Results Sun Sep 10 11:11:47 2023 CON.2A PF.DUE to SSFC.12 Pos Car Driver/Codriver Make Class Pos Carried SS10 SS11 SS12 Road Total 1 1 James Stafford/Tomas Scallan Darrian T90 GTR 14 1:01:38.0 7:11.4 7:23.0 7:48.1 1:24:00.5 2 2 Daniel Cronin/Donnchadh Burke VW Polo GTI R5 5 1:01:50.8 7:08.0 7:21.1 7:49.8 1:24:09.7 3 6 Gary Kiernan/John McGrath Ford Fiesta 5 1:02:47.1 7:16.3 7:31.7 7:58.4 1:25:33.5 4 3 Daniel Barry/Andy Hayes Skoda Fabia R5 5 1 1:03:25.4 7:20.1 7:30.4 8:16.7 1:26:32.6 5 5 Enda O'Brien/John Butler VW Polo GTI R5 5 2 1:04:18.5 7:31.3 7:30.4S 8:16.7S 1:27:36.9 6 16 Richard Moore/Enda Kennedy Ford Escort Mk 14 1 1:05:29.5 7:30.0 7:30.4S 8:16.7S 1:28:46.6 7 21 Patrick McHugh/Derry Long Ford Escort Mk 14 2 1:05:40.3 7:37.6 7:30.4S 8:16.7S 1:29:05.0 8 27 John Bonner/Johnny Baird Ford Escort Mk 14 3 1:05:48.2 7:31.2 7:30.4S 8:16.7S 1:29:06.5 9 23 Keith Power/Thomas Hayes Ford Fiesta 5 3 1:06:13.1 7:45.0 7:30.4S 8:16.7S 1:29:45.2 10 26 Shane Murray/Gary Hade Ford Fiesta 5 4 1:06:23.7 7:39.3 7:30.4S 8:16.7S 1:29:50.1 11 29 Tomas O'Rourke/Ciara Griffin Mitsubishi Evo 4 1 1:06:40.4 7:43.4 7:30.4S 8:16.7S 1:30:10.9 12 55 Brian Lavelle/Piaras O'Callaghan Ford Escort 13 1 1:06:46.9 7:39.9 7:30.4S 8:16.7S 1:30:13.9 13 11 Mark Alcorn/Darren O'Brien Ford Escort Mk 14 4 1:04:31.3 7:23.6 7:30.4S 14:06.2 1:33:31.5 14 10 Damian Toner/Kevin Horgan Ford Escort RS 14 5 1:05:18.1 7:33.3 7:30.4S 13:39.1 1:34:00.9 Wexford Stages Rally, 2023 - Historics -------------------------------------- 1 202 Wayne Evans/John Smithwick Ford Escort Mk 18 1 1:09:18.6 7:57.3 8:24.7 1:25:40.6 2 206 Martin Rossiter/Ian Davis Ford Escort RS1 18 2 1:11:24.4 8:18.5 8:49.4 1:28:32.3 3 204 Gwyndaf Evans/Jordon Jones Ford Escort 18 3 1:12:03.7 8:30.1 8:36.4 1:29:10.2 Wexford Stages Rally, 2023 - Juniors ------------------------------------ 1 303 Jordan Jervis/Joseph Kelly Honda EG6 16 1 8:34.2 8:34.2 2 301 Eoin Kelly/Darragh Kelly Honda Civic 16 2 8:53.1 8:53.1 3 304 Aaron Doran/Eoin Kinsella Honda Civic 16 3 9:24.9 9:24.9