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Irish
Notes 1st Sept 04.
Seamus Donnelly, driving his Lancer, won last Saturday’s
popular Magherafelt Motor Club’s Banagher Forest Rallysprint,
with Paul Barrett 2nd in his Escort G3 and Eugene Donnelly
3rd in an Escort BDA.
Linda Conroy walked the 19 miles from Loughrea to the start
of the Galway Summer Rally in Portumna before co-driving Martin
Ward to a class win in his BMW M3. Linda’s effort was
part of a fund-raising effort on the rally on behalf of ‘CROI’,
a charity pledged to fight cardiac problems.
Ballinamallard based Fisher Engineering has stepped in to
back the 11th September Fermanagh Lakelands Rally, the next
round of the NI Stages Championship. George Ogle, the clerk
of the Course, reports the entry for the popular Enniskillen
based event to be filling up rapidly.
Although listed in the Ulster Rally line-up, Navan’s
Paddy White, the current West Euro Cup Champion, has opted
out due to business commitments and will debut his new Prodrive
built right hand drive Impreza WRC S9 on the Tulip Rally in
Holland.
Killarney Motor Club host the final round of the McCauley
Trailers Forestry Championship this weekend. Although Kevin
Lynch has the overall title sewn up the battle for 2nd will
be between Kevin O’Kane and Pat Norris in their Subarus.
The top 10 also features Dermot Kelly, James Murphy, Dominic
McNeill and Patrick Elliott. Donie O’Sullivan, Alan Ring
and Pete Willoughby are all down to drive hired Group N Lancers.
The event is based in Castleisland and features 6 very good
stages north of the town.
West Cork brothers Kevin and Martin Kelleher have taken delivery
of an ex Natalie Barrett/George Philippedes Lancer Evo 6 and
plan to contest their home Cork ‘20’ and Fastnet
rallies. The brothers have tied up class 11 on the Dunlop
National series, even with 3 rounds remaining.
Brian Patterson
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