Jennings made a scorching start in his
hired Subaru Impreza S14 WRC, and held the lead throughout the day.
Slowly extending his lead throughout the day, Jennings has quickly
got to grips with the Banbury supercar. His only gripe was his launch
control failed at the start of SS6.
Darragh O'Riordan has a consistent day,
holding down second by a margin of 17.4 secs over Seamus Leonard.
Leonard, a former Group N winner here in Donegal, is 33.3 secs off of
Jenning's pace.
Derek McGarrity, Niall Maguire and
Donagh Kelly round out the Top 6. Kelly joked at the end of SS3 that
“the car is fine but the driver would want to a bit better!”. A
SS2 stall for McGarrity seems to have thrown him out of balance as he
is 56.6 secs off the lead. Aaron MacHale, sporting a Global Rally
News sticker on the bonnet, sits seventh after launch control
problems dropped him time. He is currently 1 min 34.7 secs off of
Jenning's scorching pace.
The Donegal crew of Declan and Brian
Boyle will lead the National Rally overnight. He commands a 33 sec
lead over Manus Kelly, who is driving Gary McPhilips usual car.
Scottish visitor Calum Duffy holds an incredibly impressive third
place.
Daniel McKenna lead the National Rally
after SS1, and did so up until SS4, when differential failure
intervened and put him out of the rally. Frank Kelly, another Global
Rally News sponsored car, held joint second after SS1, but his engine
dropped a valve on SS2. That caused terminal engine damage and put
him out of the rally for good. David Bogie's glorious MG Metro 6R4
was running well up to SS5, belching flame out of the twin exhausts
all day long. However, he took a wheel off on SS6 and put him out for
the day. Reports say he will return under SupeRally tomorrow.
In the Group N battle, the Moffett
brothers lead the pack of Mitsubishi Lancers. Sam Moffett leads the
way by 24.6 secs over brother Josh. Martin Doherty is 35 secs behind
in third.
Kieran Daly leads the Citroen Racing
Trophy, in 16th overall. He's ahead of Kevin O'Connor,
who's 2.3 secs back, and David Carney.
Tomorrow will see the introduction of
the Historic section. GRN's logo's can be seen on the Ford Escort MK2
of Gary Owens/Denver Rafferty and the Mini Cooper of William
Todd/Aaron Johnston.
Garry Jennings, Aaron MacHale, Joe
McGonigle (Renault Clio, 19th), Brian Quigley (Honda
Civic, 33rd), Gary Owens and William Todd are all sporting
GRN logos for the Donegal International Rally. Frank Kelly was also
sporting two logo's, but sadly his rally ended with an engine
problem.
For all the crews still in the rally,
and especially the crews sporting GRN stickers, all we can say is...
Best of luck lads!
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