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| RALLY NEWS No.7 - St Angelo Service After SS10 - Saturday @ 11:51:03 |
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RALLY NEWS NO.7 St. Angelo/Saturday
UNOFFICIAL (ULSTER) L/BOARD AFTER STAGE 11
1st (W1) Garry Jennings/Rory Kennedy (Impreza WRC) 1.29.11.7
2nd (W3) Derek McGarrity/James McKee (Focus WRC) 1.30.11.3
3rd (W5) Donagh Kelly/Kevin Flanagan (Focus WRC) 1.31.44.1
4th (W7) Josh Moffett/John Rowan (Lancer N) 1.35.30.9
5th (W6) Stephen & Susanne Wright (Lancer N) 1.38.22.9
6th (W9) William Mavity/Andrew Brown (Lancer N) 1.39.19.7
UNOFFICIAL (RALLY NI) L/BOARD AFTER STAGE 11
1st (R7) Osian Pryce/Dale Furness (Citroen) 1.33.44.1
2nd (R1) Jukka Korhonen/Marko Salminen (Citroen) 1.34.19.6
3rd (R5) Mark Donnelly/Dai Roberts (Citroen) 1.35.56.4
4th (R12) Daniel McKenna/Arthur Kierans (Fiesta R2) 1.36.05.8
5th (R4) Jonny Greer/Jonny Hart (Citroen) 1.36.19.6
6th (R14) Steve Rokland/James Aldridge (Fiesta R2) 1.36.35.5
On the Ulster Rally it is fingers crossed time now for Garry Jennings. With just 4 stages to go he has a lead of a minute and was fastest through stage 11, but his Subaru engine seems to be just about holding on and certainly towards the end of the spectator stage switched on to safe mode. It would appear the engine is sucking water into one cylinder. It is OK when it is running but not good if he has to switch it off. Derek McGarrity was fastest through stage 10, St. Angelo, then dropped 11s to Garry on stage 11. Donagh Kelly was just a second down on McGarrity but is 1m33s behind so has little chance to close the gap. Stephen Wright was fastest GpN through stage 11 has half a second to Josh Moffett, but Josh has nearly 3m in hand so is under no pressure.
In Rally NI Mark Donnelly has at last found the sort of form we know he is capable of and powered his Pirelli backed Citroen to a fastest time, albeit by less than a second, over leader Osian Pryce. Jukka Korhonen seems happy enough now to preserve his 2nd place that will also reinforce his British Rally Championship lead. Daniel McKenna leads class 6 in his Fiesta but is nursing the car as there is a bearing screaming in the gearbox.
The National Rally was led by Frank Kelly after stage 9 by just 6s from Derek McGeehan with Shane McGirr 3rd and Jonny Leonard 4th. Paddy McVeigh was 3rd overnight but clipped a front wheel of his Subaru in Sloughan Glen and retired shortly afterwards. Emma McKinstry is running in Super Rally as her Impreza WRC encountered fuel pressure problems on the final Friday evening stage. Fergus O`Meara had been 6th overnight but we have no time for him from stage 9 this morning. Jonny Leonard dropped time in stage 9 when the brake pedal of his FAL backed Lancer went to the floor and he put the car off the road rather than risk colliding with some spectators. Jonny dropped about a minute in the incident. The car is rightly scraped down one side and still going OK. Frank Kelly commented. `I am driving every stage like it is my last one to keep McGeehan at bay`. McGeehan had at least one dramatic moment last night when he had to get on to his knees inside the car and try and turn a broken anti lag switch off with his teeth!
In the Historic Rally Ryan Barrett moved back into the lead this morning when Gareth James` Escort engine blew up. Ryan now has over a minute lead on Richard Hill with Rob Smith 3rd, all in Escorts. Wesley Patterson had a fraught morning and is 4th. Wesley put his Escort off the road on a slippy hairpin right over a bridge in stage 8, then went off again on stage 9 on a square right and bent the Escort steering. Rikki Proffitt led the older category of the Historics overnight by 14s from fellow |Porsche pilot Dessie Nutt. However Proffitt put his 911 off the road briefly on a hairpin right and broke the gearbox extricating the car. He has now retired. Ernie Graham is 5th o/a in the Historics and David Stokes 6th. Stokes would normally be up at the sharp end but despite his best efforts he told us that the times are just not coming today.
More news later: BRIAN & LIZ PATTERSON & MICHAEL www.rallynews.net *Follow RallyNews on Twitter @ Pacenotes or @Real_RallyNews
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