Icy reception for huge field
Rally Report 2
Sunday, December 17th, 2000 - 11:15am
Reporting team: John Dier, Will Downing - Inch

Major problems are being reported by the 130-strong field following the opening practice run over the ten mile course being traversed for the Courtown Hotel Single Stage Rally from Coolgreany to Balycoog.

Overnight frost and ice are making the course treacherous on at least three patches of the course.

Ironically, part of the course had been underwater for almost a month, only for it to dry out during the week. No sooner had that happened, but it then become covered in thick ice.

The perils of rallying.....