Wood burns it up as O’Brien gets sandwiched

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 times are starting to come through, here is the latest after SS5

Wexford Volkswagen Stages Rally
Overall Results after Stage 5

Pos No Driver/Co-driver Class Vehicle Total
1 2 Steve Wood/Keith Moriarty 7 Subaru Impreza WRC S10 0:43:58
2 6 Enda O’Brien/John Butler 14 Ford Escort RS Mk2 0:44:00
3 1 Paddy McVeigh/Gary McElhinney 7 Subaru WRC S12b 0:44:07
4 3 Gary Kiernan/Ryan Moore 14 Ford Escort 0:44:13
5 5 Adrian Hetherington/Gary Nolan 14 Ford Escort 0:44:30
6 8 Kevin Barrett/Declan Tumilty 7 Subaru S14 0:45:33
7 4 Wesley Patterson/Johnny Baird 14 Ford Escort 0:45:40
8 11 Michael Conlon/Ciaran McPhilips 13 Ford Escort Mk2 0:45:41
9 17 Tomas Davies/Eurig Davies 5 Ford Fiesta 0:45:50
10 14 Patrick McHugh/Pauric O’Donnell 13 Ford Escort Mk2 0:46:01
11 12 Graham Scallan/Tom Scallan 5 Mitsubishi Evo 10 0:46:05
12= 18 Simon Reid/Billy Ryan 11F Honda Civic 0:46:06
12= 21 Richard Moore/Brian Halligan 14 Ford Escort Mk2 0:46:06
14 32 Neil Hickey/David Byrne 13 Ford Escort Mk2 0:46:49
15 24 Wayne Evans/John Smithwick 13 Ford Escort 0:46:50
16 29 Joe Connolly/Richard Connolly 5 Ford R5 0:47:22
17 28 Jason O’Brien/David O’Brien 11F Honda EG6 0:47:32
18 98 John Reddington/Noel Coogan 14 Ford Escort Mk2 0:47:33
19 27 Richard Cleary/Niamh Holland 13 Ford Escort Mk2 0:47:34
20 25 Adrian Evans/Martin Henry 13 Ford Escort 0:47:35
21 19 Eddie Power/John Rafter 20 Toyota Corolla 0:49:50