Boland now leads by 18" after SS5

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John Dier

Saturday 9th September

Eamon boland has increased his lead by 2" after SS5. the cars are just having their final service break of the day and Eamon seemed happy with the way the car is behaving. Noel Redmond admitted that Eamon gained a 3" advantage on him on SS4, but took 1" back on Boland on SS5. He also reckons that he could reduce the deficit on the last run of the Crossabeg test this evening.

The battle further back between McGrath and James seems to be holding station, with reletively similar times over the last two tests. Jim Crowe, James' navigator, has even gone as far as to say that today is the first time this year he has heard his pilot admit a mistake when david admitted he had boo-booed by stalling twice on the start on one of this mornings stages.

The earlier news of the demise of John Somers has been corrected, he put the car on it's roof earlier in the day, but found a novel way to get back in the rally, put the wheels on the roof instead!!! Only joking John, keep her on her wheels for the rest of the rally.

Provisional top 10 after SS5


  
1    1 Eamonn Boland  Francis Regan  Ford Focus 05  8      0:31:10        
2    2 Noel Redmond  Alan Keenan  Impreza S11  8           0:31:28    
3    7 PJ McGrath  Killian Duffy  Impreza WRC  8           0:31:59    
4    6 David James  Jim Crowe  Ford Focus WRC  8           0:32:18    
5    24 Washington James  Geoff Forster  Darrian T90  14   0:33:23   
6    10 John McCarthy  M.J. Morrisey  Toyota Corolla  8    0:33:32    
7    9 George Cullen  Jakes Kelly  Subaru S9 WRC  8        0:33:47    
8    23 Neil Williams  Eurig Davies  Ford Escort RS  13    0:33:50    
9    15 Willie Whitty  Johnny Whitty  Ford Escort MkII  13 0:33:53    
10   29 Tomas O'Rourke  John McGrath  Opel Astra GSI  13   0:33:56   
 
 

JD