Motorsport Ireland Bulletin 21st May

Stafford has not started SS14, seems to be out after whatever happened towards the end of SS13, more to follow shortly

Steve Wood laid down another fastest stage time to keep a nice cushion over the second place car of Meirion Evans with the latter almost matching Wood’s time over the Buck’s Bridge test. His 4″ advantage on that stage over the hard charging Dalton has arrested the slip a bit and given him a slight…

The lead Eddie Doherty now has in the rally is 9.9s over Michael Boyle, who now must be looking very nervously over his shoulder for “the ould fella”. Declan took quite a sizeable 4.9s out of Michael on SS6 and as good as matched Doherty’s time, only 0.2s slower. Would it beyond the bounds of…

In a game of swings and roundabouts, the lead had opened out to just over 11″ again with Andrew Purcell increasing the lead by 7.5″ on SS8. Given that Stafford has been quicker on the Balcarrag on the two previous passes, by 8″ on the previous pass, the lead could well be down to just…

The damp conditions we related to in the previous post seem to be suiting Stafford better than Straker, Stafford took 20″ out of the similar car of Straker on SS8, the only stage run on the first loop after the cancellation of SS7. Wesley Patterson and Frank kelly are still 3rd & 4th respectively but…