Daniel Cronin has an overnight lead of 8.8″ going into the stages at the south end of the county tomorrow. He lost 1.5″ to Declan Boyle on the last stage of the day but in the big scheme of things, could be the best way of making sure he is fighting fit to go for the win tomorrow. Michael Boyle had dropped a further 6.3″ back on Declan, but has kept the gap the same to David Kelly, who in turn has extended the gap to Desi Henry to 24.1″. Gary Kiernan is fighting back reducing the gap to Henry by 3.5″ to leave just over 16″ to make up tomorrow to make up a place. Cal McCarthy, Jason Black, Jonathan Pringle and Johno Doogan finish out the top ten with Richie Moore gaining yet another place to 17th to be the leading local driver. Brendan Cumiskey seems to have not gone into SS9, that could explain his bad time on SS8, looks mechanical.
Here is the clip that went out on the South East Radio sports programme tonight. It gets the thoughts of the top 6 drivers overnight, it’s not necessarily in order, we caught them as they parked up.
If you are looking at the live times on SS8 and scratching your head and wondering how so many of the cars are carrying time penalties, there seems to be a problem with the remote inputs at stage end so we will have to wait here in the results room to get the master sheets…
Early doors yet but Steve Wood has laid down a marker to the rest of the field after SS1 in Tacumshine. He has a lead of 6″ over Ian Barrett, who in turn has a 15″ cushion to Gary Kiernan in 3rd. Stephen McCann is literally breathing down his neck only 1″ behind. We are…
Early times in from SS7, Ian Barrett has taken 5″ back from Steve Wood on the opening test of the morning but still trails by 36″, a load more stages to sort things out during the day, the long Oylegate stage being a tasty finish to proceedings. The other significant move is that John Bonner…
