Catch up on the first three stages with almost all cars in service

Now that we have a few spare minutes, here’s a brief recap on the rally after SS3. Daniel Cronin leads the rally by 6.02 from Declan Boyle, who in turn is 2.9″ ahead of Michael Boyle, these two having swapped to the two lower podium places on SS3. Gary Kiernan seems to be making 4th safe at the moment but if he takes as much time on the next stage out of Michael Boyle as he did on SS3, he could take 3rd on the 2nd pass of the Clogh stage. Tommy Doyle in the Hyundai I20 in 5th was also quicker than Michael Boyle on SS3, so there may be a few changes on the second set of stages before the cars make their way back to Enniscorthy for 2nd service. Brendan Cumiskey is in 6th, but had David Kelly breathing down his neck exactly 1″ behind and Kelly was 0.4″ faster on SS3, another battle to watch. Desi Henry and Cal McCarthy are 8th & 9th, with jonathan Pringle and Jason Black tied for 10th, and bear in mind the timing is done to tenths of seconds. First of the Wexford drivers is former multiple winner, James Stafford. Stafford seemed to be a bit slow out of the blocks, but definitely found his mojo on SS3, faster than Johno Doogan and Jason McSweeney in front of him, a gain of 6″ over the second loop could see him knocking on the door of the top 10. Two places back from Stafford is the next Wexford driver, Tomas O’Rourke, Simon Reid a sandwich between the two locals. This could likely change on SS4 as O’Rourke was nearly 5″ quicker than Reid on SS3, which is around the same as the gap between the two, an interesting stage to come all around in the top end of proceedings.

What we have so far after SS3

Results for the Historic category