Motorsport Ireland Bulletin 17-06-2015

The leading cars are leaving Parc Ferme at the moment and making their way across the bridge in New Ross to head out to the start of the Donard stage , the first of six that they will eventually complete. The roads are quite damp at present, so it will be a very interesting ,…

If you are looking at the live times on SS8 and scratching your head and wondering how so many of the cars are carrying time penalties, there seems to be a problem with the remote inputs at stage end so we will have to wait here in the results room to get the master sheets…

Steve Wood has won by 40″, more later on the story but here are what times we have.   Pos Car Driver/Codriver Make Class Pos Carried SS13 SS14 SS15 Road Total 1 1 Steve Wood/Keith Moriarty Subaru Impreza 7 1:32:52 4:37 6:45 9:23 1:53:37 2 4 Ian Barrett/Eoin O’Flaherty Ford Fiesta WRC 7 1:33:38 4:28…

Steve Wood has retained his overnight lead albeit with Meirion Evans taking 2.1″ off the overnight leader on the first pass through Boolaboy. The big news of the morning is that Gary Kiernan is out of the rally. His not so terminal clutch problem from last night has turned into a terminal ditch problem on…