The first batch of times are hitting us from the Blackwater test, Wood and Barrett match times but the changes seem to be happening behind them. Stephen McCann has gone ahead of Gary Kiernan into 3rd, McCann setting the fastest time here, and so far, we don’t have a time for Richard Moore. Liam Howlett…
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…
Steve Wood has just come into service with a 47″ cushion ahead of the overnight stop here in Wexford racecourse. He is followed by Ian Barrett and Gary Kiernan in the other two provisional podium places ahead of the testing 9 stages tomorrow. Stephen McCann is charging hard to get one of those places, only…
Steve Wood extends the lead to 41″ over Ian Barrett, more later.
Steve Wood has extended his lead to 32″ over Ian Barrett who in turn has 23″ to spare over Gary Kiernan. The charging Stephen McCann has posted another quick test time, 2nd fastest on this one with only Wood quicker. Richard Moore is keeping the local flag flying high just after McCann with another local…
Early news from SS5 is that Steve Wood has extended the lead and Stephen McCann is continuing his push, more as we get it.
The cars are now on the way out to the last loop of the day and two cars that look like that won’t be there this evening are Wesley Patterson and Leon Galvin. As of yet we don’t know if it is mechanical or structural, as soon as we find out, we will let you…
Steve Wood has kept his lead but reduced by 1″ after SS4, Ian Barrett taking that second on the second tour of the Cleariestown test, Neither of these though set the fastest timer on that test, Stephen McCann had that honour. McCann’s car however is showing the scars of the battle, an off on a…
Normal service seems to be resumed after the slight problems we had earlier in the day in bringing the latest times to you. Steve Wood now leads by 23″ From Ian Barrett, who in turn has 18″ of a cushion back between himself and Gary Kiernan. Stephen McCann trails Kiernan by a further 24″, but…
OK folks, it seems that there were communications problems out at the end of SS1 which had more than a few confused, but these seem to be ironing themselves out toward the sharp end of things, lower down the order may take time. Just in case local fans are wondering why Liam Howlett is not…