Two stages to go in what has been an excellent and very entertaining rally, Steve Wood looks like he can just about start thinking of lifting the winners trophy later this evening. He has extended the lead out a few seconds more now to lead by 38″ over Enda O’Brien with Adrian Hetherington in 3rd….
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…
The big news this morning is that overnight leader Paddy McVeigh has crashed out on SS10 and his rally is over. The lead at the end of the stage had passed to Steve Wood going into SS11, but a spin by Wood on the Tullycanna stage passed the lead to Gary Kiernan by 3″. As…
Paddy McVeigh holds a 18 second over night lead going into day 2 of the Wexford Volkswagen Stages Rally. He leads fellow Subaru driver Steve Wood, who in turn is 15 seconds advantage over Enda O’Brien. Garry Kiernan is breathing hard down the neck of O’Brien with only 2 seconds separating the two Ford Escorts…
It is getting closer at the top now as Steve Wood has pulled in a small bit of the gap between him and Paddy McVeigh. Enda O’Brien is still 3rd in his Escort but now has Gary Kiernan breathing down his neck only 7″ back in 4th. Adrian Hetherinton is comfortable in 5th if he…
The rally now has its third leader since this morning, Paddy McVeigh has now taken up the mantle of leader having set a scorching time on the 3rd run on the Oldcourt test. He has now done this stage almost a full minute quicker than his first visit to the roads just west of Adamstown….
Steve Wood now leads Paddy McVeigh after SS6 as Enda O’Brien has slipped down to 3rd. Hi Escort is now sporting a remodeled front left wing after an off on SS5, or as his co-driver called it, “a beer stain”. Some of the cars are showing a little impromptu reshaping due to the day improving…
All change at the top after SS5 as Steve Wood turned a 12″ deficit into a 2″ advantage to top the leaderboard after the Donard test. Maybe an off road excursion will be the cause, we will try find out for you. The rest of the stories, we will backtrack on later but as SS6…
Enda O’Brien still seems to be setting the times alight out on the stages with another fastest time on SS4 and now has a 12″ advantage over Steve Wood, who in turn has 11″ advantage over Paddy McVeigh. The gaps seem to be wider as we look further down the top 10, this seems to…
As much info as we have now from SS2 Wexford Volkswagen Stages Rally Overall Results after Stage 2 Pos No Driver/Co-driver Class Vehicle Total 1 6 Enda O’Brien/John Butler 14 Ford Escort RS Mk2 0:19:34 2 1 Paddy McVeigh/Gary McElhinney 7 Subaru WRC S12b 0:19:39 3 2 Steve Wood/Keith Moriarty 7 Subaru Impreza WRC S10…