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…
The cars are through scrutiny and they all wait to be put through their paces by eagerly awaiting crews. The cars will leave the start ramp at Rally HQ at the Riverbank House Hotel at 9am. Last years winner, Steve Wood, will lead the near capacity field away, will he retain his crown by the…
Steve Wood has become the Wexford Volkswagon Stages rally for 2016 after bringing his Subaru home safely over the last two stages. With a healthy advantage over Enda O’Brien, he managed to drive a a pace fast enough to stay on the money concentration wise, but slowing ever so slightly to not risk any last…
Steve Wood has just crossed the line and taken the honours by 46″ from Enda O’Brien with Adrian Hetherington 21″ further back in 3rd. More to Follow……. Wexford Volkswagen Stages Rally Overall Results after Stage 15 Pos No Driver/Co-driver Class Vehicle Total 1 2 Steve Wood/Keith Moriarty 7 Subaru Impreza WRC S10 2:06:20 2 6…
Two stages to go in what has been an excellent and very entertaining rally, Steve Wood looks like he can just about start thinking of lifting the winners trophy later this evening. He has extended the lead out a few seconds more now to lead by 38″ over Enda O’Brien with Adrian Hetherington in 3rd….
This rally is living up to its dramatic previous stages as we seem to have lost our leader from the previous loop, Gary Kiernan is not showing up on the timesheets as we write this. Steve Wood has reclaimed the lead with a cushion of 26″ over Enda O’Brien, who in turn has a gap…
The big news this morning is that overnight leader Paddy McVeigh has crashed out on SS10 and his rally is over. The lead at the end of the stage had passed to Steve Wood going into SS11, but a spin by Wood on the Tullycanna stage passed the lead to Gary Kiernan by 3″. As…
Paddy McVeigh holds a 18 second over night lead going into day 2 of the Wexford Volkswagen Stages Rally. He leads fellow Subaru driver Steve Wood, who in turn is 15 seconds advantage over Enda O’Brien. Garry Kiernan is breathing hard down the neck of O’Brien with only 2 seconds separating the two Ford Escorts…
It is getting closer at the top now as Steve Wood has pulled in a small bit of the gap between him and Paddy McVeigh. Enda O’Brien is still 3rd in his Escort but now has Gary Kiernan breathing down his neck only 7″ back in 4th. Adrian Hetherinton is comfortable in 5th if he…
The rally now has its third leader since this morning, Paddy McVeigh has now taken up the mantle of leader having set a scorching time on the 3rd run on the Oldcourt test. He has now done this stage almost a full minute quicker than his first visit to the roads just west of Adamstown….