Motorsport Ireland Bulletin 03-06-2015

When i looked at the seeded entry list during the week doing a little prep work before the rally, I noticed car 89 was entered with Stephen Murphy driving and Mickey Joe in the passenger seat. After a quick check with the man from Kilmeaden to see if I was seeing things, I wasn’t, the…

Having lost a few seconds on the first test of the morning, Steve Wood has done what he does best, put the pedal to the metal. Where Meirion Evans took 2.1″ advantage on SS10, Wood paid him back in heaps by taking just under 13″ back from the younger Welshman on the first trio through…

Andrew Purcell has stretched out the lead again on SS5, as he did on the first loop. James Stafford reckoned this particular stage doesn’t suit his car well but the last stage of the loop does so we can possibly see the gap shorten again.Richard Moffett has Gary Kiernan taking more time out of him…

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…

Daniel Cronin is starting to stretch the lead a little on each stage now, a second here or there has put the lead out to6.4″ over Declan Boyle, who in turn has 7.9″ to spare over Michael Boyle. Gary Kiernan has 5.4″ to make up on the latter of the two Boyles to improve on…