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Notes 10th Sept 03.
Pat Donegan took his tidy Mk 2 Escort to a very impressive win on
last Sunday's Castle AC Hellfire Rally. In wet slippy conditions,
the Kells man finished the 27 miles of asphalt stage mileage 4
seconds ahead of the Escort Cosworth of Sean Gallagher, with
another 4 wheel drive machine, Sean McArdle's Celica, in 3rd a
further 2 secs back. Jack Slater was 5th and won GpN in a new
Lancer Evo 8.
Ballinamallard's Garry Jennings looks likely to clinch a deal to
drive an Impreza WRC on this weekend's Wexford rally. The Peugeot
UK driver has backing from CrosbieTrans who are involved with the
rally, as well as Agip and Fisher Engineering. The car will be
the one Snijers drove in Lurgan Park. Interestingly it will be
just 3 years to the day this weekend since Jennings competed on
his first rally.
Limerick's Greg Shinnors had quite a busy and successful time
last weekend, co-driving Roy White to GpN victory on the Ulster
and then travelling down on the Saturday night to Killarney and
co-driving Eddie Kinirons to the KBB Forestry Championship title
on the Sunday.
Derek McGarrity drove his Subaru S8 over the finish line of the
Ulster Rally after finishing 2nd and winning the Tarmac
Championship Title, straight on to Steve Fleck's trailer. The
Impreza had been sold before the start of the rally.
This weekend sees the continuation of the NI Stage Championship
with the Lakelands Stages Rally. Eugene Donnelly will continue
his bid to take this year's title. Eugene has been campaigning
his Celica on the NI series but the car has been damaged in a
testing incident and there is a race against time to get it
repaired in time for Saturday's Enniskillen based event. Denis
Biggerstaff in his Metro 6R4 is seen as Donnelly's main threat in
the title race.
Regards, Brian Patterson.
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