Daniel McKenna will swap his Class 14
Ford Escort MK2 for a Ford Fiesta R2 when he contests the British
Rally Championship and fights for the Pirelli Star Driver Award this
year.
McKenna, the Billy Coleman Award winner
last year, announced recently that he will contest the BRC thanks to
the €50,000 he netted by winning the Billy Coleman Award. He has
already undertaken testing in his Fiesta R2, and reportedly took to
the new car very quickly. The Monaghan driver plans to contest a
round of the Irish Forestry Championship to gain competitive
experience of the car, and will also complete a day of testing prior
to the Rally North Wales, the opening round of the BRC.
With the Pirelli Star Driver Award
running once again alongside the BRC this year, and once McKenna
secures a nomination for the season-ending shoot-out (the prize being
a fully funded drive in the 2014 BRC), he will upgrade to an R3
specification and go for the overall Championship.
Arthur Kierans will co-drive for
McKenna this season as his regular co-driver Andrew Greenan has since
emigrated to Australia.
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