Sprint Final Instruction

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…

Michael Boyle has posted the fastest time through SS10, he was 2.8s quicker than Eddie Doherty, turning a 1s deficit into a 1.8s lead. While defending champion Declan Boyle was nearly matching Doherty, he is 12.7s behind the new 2nd place man, and would have to do a lot of work to improve on the…

Eddie Doherty still leads the rally, but the 1.5s gap that existed before the cars started the stage in Twelveacre is now down to exactly 1s, Michael Boyle is laying down his marker for the day. Declan Boyle lost 2s from the rally leader on SS10, but is the only other car to come within…

Game back on her after SS12, just when we thought that Michael Boyle had got the better of Eddie Doherty, the Kilkenny man said “hold on here ya whippersnapper” or something to that effect, and took 1.4s back from the Donegal man and the gap is down to 0.4s,methinks we’re in for a cracking last…