Wood increases the lead by another second.
Steve Wood is inching ever closer to retaining his Wexford crown as he took another second out of Ian Barrett, but for good measure, our 3rd place man, Stephen McCann, decided to match the rally leader on the short Screen stage, the shortest of the rally. Tyre choice could be the thing that might have most bearing on this loop of stages as the roads were drying as the cars left us here in service but a few mist and light rain clouds passed over the rally area and may have added to the fun on the loop. On why Liam Howlett is down the field a bit, but still hitting good stage times, he suffered a puncture on SS9 before the stage was stopped so his slow time on that stage was caused by this. Had it been a case of getting the puncture after the stoppage, it may just have been a different story. With only 9″ separating McCann and Gary Kiernan, and Kiernan quicker on SS10, there is only a 9″ gap there with five stages to go, so we might just have a battle on our hands here. John Bonner has 28″ to spare over Richard Moore who in turn has a comfortable 41″ space between himself and Joe Connolly in 7th. The next three places make for interesting reading as Kyle McGettigan, John Reddington & Leon Galvin are only seperated by 14″, any skid, spin or puncture will put a different look on this, we await SS11 times with much anticipation.
What we have so far.
Pos Car Driver/Codriver Class Pos Carried SS10 Road Total 1 1 Steve Wood/Keith Moriarty 7 1:12:08 4:25 1:16:33 2 4 Ian Barrett/Eoin O'Flaherty 7 1:12:48 4:26 1:17:14 3 5 Stephen McCann/Damien Fleming 5 1:13:15 4:27 1:17:42 4 3 Gary Kiernan/Ryan Moore 14 1 1:13:26 4:25 1:17:51 5 12 John Bonner/Jonathan McGrath 14 2 1:15:44 4:37 1:20:21 6 15 Richard Moore/Brian Halligan 14 3 1:16:10 4:39 1:20:49 7 19 Joe Connolly/Richard Connolly 5 1 1:16:49 4:41 1:21:30 8 17 Kyle McGettigan/Dale McGettigan 14 4 1:17:22 4:35 1:21:57 9 125 John Reddington/Lorcan Moore 14 5 1:17:21 4:46 1:22:07 10 43 Leon Galvin/Ger Foley 13 1 1:17:18 4:53 1:22:11 11 27 Gareth Lloyd/David Byrne 13 2 1:18:10 4:48 1:22:58 12 33 Barry McKenna/Macartan Kierans 13 3 1:18:21 4:50 1:23:11 13 29 John Hade/Sharon Nolan 14 6 1:18:18 4:55 1:23:13 14 26 Brian O'Keeffe/Sean Hayde 4 1 1:18:29 4:46 1:23:15 15 30 Jack Maguire/Seamus O'Grady 13 4 1:18:25 4:50 1:23:15 16 129 Neil Tohill/Gerard Tohill 4 2 1:18:49 4:45 1:23:34 17 22 James Bradley/Maria Kehoe 11F 1 1:18:49 4:46 1:23:35 18 35 Gary Cassidy/Jack McKenna 13 5 1:18:51 4:51 1:23:42 19 25 Tomas O'Rourke/Tomas Scallan 2 1 1:19:28 4:47 1:24:15 20 34 Jeremy Straker/Michael Coady 13 6 1:19:47 4:50 1:24:37 21 31 Aled Davies/Jason Davies 13 7 1:20:38 4:53 1:25:31 22 42 John Byrne/Brian Grant 2 2 1:21:04 4:50 1:25:54 23 83 Shay Delaney/Iarla McCarthy 11F 2 1:21:30 4:57 1:26:27 24 50 Philip McDonald/Shane Corcoran 11F 3 1:21:26 5:03 1:26:29 25 63 Park Quentin/Geoege Tinsley 12 1 1:21:41 4:56 1:26:37 26 52 Tommy Kelly/Mark Furlong 9A 1 1:21:53 5:00 1:26:53 27 53 Chris Sinclair-james/S.Farrell 14 7 1:22:02 5:02 1:27:04 28 59 Nick Barnett/Martin Brady 4 3 1:22:17 5:02 1:27:19 29 81 Conor Sherry/Ger Leech 13 8 1:22:37 5:06 1:27:43 30 64 Robert Leech/Denny Greaney 2 3 1:23:01 4:58 1:27:59 31 66 Steven Armstrong/Conor Boylan 12 2 1:22:51 5:14 1:28:05 32 11 Liam Howlett/John McGrath 14 8 1:23:53 4:51 1:28:44 33 49 JT Warnock/Dessie Wilson 13 9 1:24:31 4:54 1:29:25 34 28 Adrain Evans/Martin Henry 13 10 1:25:20 4:48 1:30:08 35 44 Graham Kelly/Dean Kelly 14 9 1:28:24 5:02 1:33:26 36 40R Andy Nash/Ray Nash 11F 4 1:33:26 4:46 1:38:12
