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Irish
Notes 28th August 2002.
Peugeot 206 Super Cup
star Garry Jennings is to compete on the park Stages in the David
Greer Motorsport Lancer Evo 6. Backed by a consortium led by Ivan
Fisher of Fisher Engineering, Jennings' trip in the same car was
foreshortened on the Manx when a stud in the cylinder head to the
turbo sheared. This deal is a form of compensation for that
disappointment.
Stephen
Whitford
will use the same Lancer on the NI Championship Lakelands
the previous weekend to the Park Stages, so the Jennings deal
will hinge on the silver Mitsubishi surviving that Fermanagh
trip. Whitford is lying 2nd overall in the Championship, 8 points
behind Derek McGarrity, and has achieved some stunning results in
the GpN car. He started the series however in a Celica and Willie
McKee of Toshiba/BSS currently leads GpN.
Michael
Carlin
from Maiden City MC would like to thank all the marshals, medical
and rescue personnel who turned up for the Dogleap Rally. He
would also like to point out that at the scene of the Richard
Hogg/Michael Gibson accident that Richard waved following drivers
on while at the same time displaying the SOS board.
It
was a Donnelly brothers
'one - two' on last Saturday's Magherafelt MC Bannagher Rally
Trial, Eugene winning from Charlie, both in Celicas, by less than
a second. Glenn Allen and Kieran Shaw were 3rd and 4th, both in
Escort WRC's.
Galway
MC swings
back into rally action this weekend, after a long lay-off, by
staging their popular Portumna based stage rally. Although not a
counting round of the National series this time, the event still
has an oversubscribed entry. One feature will be a high profile
entry for Elaine Cunningham in a drive to raise funds for the
Cancer Society.
Brian Patterson.
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