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Irish
Notes 27.06.07.
Several of the top Irish GpN drivers, including Seamus Leonard
and Cahal Rogers and Emma McKinstry, are considering tackling
a mainland European event before the end of the year, with Tour
of Flanders high on the list for consideration.
The Shell Donegal rally was a round of the West Euro Cup as
well as the Tarmac series, and Mark Higgins now tops the points,
with Andreas Mikkelsen 2nd, Eugene Donnelly 3rd and Lorna Smith
4th.
This weekend’s ALMC Multi Stages Rally, based at The City
North Hotel, on the M1 outside Dublin, is a round of both the
Sleator Auto Rally Championship and Rory Galligan’s Peugeot
205 Challenge. Martin Doherty, Kenny McKinstry, Melvyn Evans,
Jack Sleator, Hugh Martin Doherty and Paddy White, all in WRC
machines, are the top seeds.
Killarney’s Donie O’Sullivan was more than an interested
spectator on the Ypres Rally, as along with his engineer Clive
Taylor he spent several days in discussion with both Fiat and
Peugeot representatives regarding the possibility of his S-Tec
Motorsport company preparing at least one of the new S2000 cars
for use in Ireland.
Following last weekend’s Ravens Rock Rally, the position
at the top of the 023 Tiles Southern Four Championship is far
from clear. Michael Barrable seemed poised to move to the top
of the points table, but his exclusion and Aaron MacHale being
declared the winner moves the ball into former Champion Denis
Cronin’s court as he scored maximum points, with Kevin
O’Donoghue and James Stafford still very much in the picture.
Barrable, who won the opening West Cork round, is believed to
be launching an appeal against his exclusion, so the position
remains fluid.
Kenny McKinstry is planning a Canadian trip in August, but is
trying hard to schedule in the Turkington Holdings Lurgan Park
Rally (11th August). Kenny, a ten times winner in Lurgan Park,
considers the event one of his all times favourites. The eight
stages for the rally have been slightly modified, otherwise
the event is being organised broadly the same as before, with
a Mk2 Challenge, which Phil Collins has committed to, and centralised
servicing all within the environs of Craigavon Borough Council’s
Lurgan Park.
Regards, Brian Patterson |
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