Day 2 of the Donegal International Rally has been cut short due to the death of a co-driver. Their car left the road at around 3:00pm
Before the tragedy, Gareth MacHale lead Tim McNulty by 1:00.6 with Aaron MacHale third. Seamus Leonard is fourth with Group N leader Alastair Fisher fifth & PJ McDermott sixth.
Craig Breen crashed heavily out of the rally on the Fanad 1 stage & so did Keith Cronin who was trying to make up time after SS2 turbo problems.
Brian Murphy, co-driver to Gareth MacHale, siad: “Tim’s going hard, so are we and we’re a long way ahead of the rest. Gareth is driving within himself and I suppose if we didn’t have that one minute buffer, we would up the game.”
Tim McNulty said: “We’re certainly going hard, we were 13s faster over Fanad than last years quickest time.”
Seamus Leonard lost 15secs with a misfiring engine, which has left rally guru Kenny McKinstry quite confused: “It’s a mystery! At the last service it was misfiring on the back left hand plug, we changed that and now it’s the front right hand plug off the bank. The computer is showing that Seamus lost 15s in that one stage.”
Alastair Fisher holds second in Group N with Damien Tourish leading. Rory Kennedy said: “We’re going as hard as we can. In this warm weather, the GpN car can’t compete with the world rally car.”
David Bogie went on a flyer over the Fanad 1 stage to set a time 10 secs faster than Rodney Wilton. David noted at service: “The oil light in the 6R4 is still flashing but it is only following a high speed section into a slow junction. We were pushing very hard over Fanad and it was great. So many Scottish flags, helicopters flying low, very exciting!”
In other news, Daniel McKenna has passed his exams, which means he has a degree in energy & sustainability management. Daniel can also add this to his mechanical engineering degree. Well done Daniel!
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