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| Garry Jennings/Barry McNulty 1st Overall |
Jennings, the 2011 Group N Irish Tarmac
Champion, was never troubled throughout the rally, taking stage wins
on all bar 2 stages. On the stages he didn't win, SS2 and SS6, he was
tied for first place with Stephen Wright and Conor Harvey,
respectively. Jennings' winning margin was an incredible 53 secs over
Wright.
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| Stephan Wright/Susanne Wright 2nd Overall 1st Group N/Class 8 |
Third was Colin Britton in his
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6. Britton also took Class 8, Group N class.
Conor Harvey's Evo 9 took fourth overall, barely one second behind
Britton. Fifth went to Ian Cochrane, who was never far behind the
fight for Class 8 win, until losing 8 secs on SS4 and 10 secs between
SS9 and SS10.
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| Colin Britton/Arthur Kearns 3rd Overall |
Frank Kelly took sixth and fastest 2WD
car in his rapid blue Escort MK2. He finished on the exact same time
as Gerard Lucey, who had a massive moment near the start of SS3, but
Lucey had to settle for second by virtue of Kelly's better time over
the final stage.
Adrian Hetherington drove his newly
built V6 powered MK2 Escort to a fine eighth place. The sound of the
car echoed the sounds of the 80's, when the MG Metro 6R4 powered it's
way through the forests. The car also attracted the nods of approval
from many of the spectators.
Shane McGirr powered his Toyota Starlet
to ninth, over two mins ahead of the MK2 Escort of Paul Reid in tenth, who
lost buckets of time over both runs of the Crocknacunny stages.
Ian Downey took the Junior Class in his
Opel Corsa, after an earlier timing error gave Daniel Cronin the
class win. Tommy O'Connell took the Historic category in his MK2
Escort.
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Tommy O'Connell/Philip Hunter
1st Historics
14th overall
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43 drivers entered the rally, and by
the end, only 27 survived. Five drivers didn't even manage to get to
the start of the first stage. These included reigning Champion Pat
O'Connell. Joseph McGonigle was the only car entered in the R2 class,
but he went out on SS8. Brendan Comiskey went out on SS7. No. 1 seed
Vincent McAree's anti-lag system failed on the way to SS5. Martin
Cairns' Subaru Impreza WRC went out on SS3. This looks to be one of
the S9's final rallies, as Martin has taken delivery of an ex-Mads
Ostberg S12B, which should be out on next month's Fivemiletown Spring
Rally.
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| Ian Downey/Sean Bruton Winner Junior Class |
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