Matt Edwards wins SS9 in Dònegal ! Very impressive as he's new to the Polo and Moffett and Devine are going flat out at the top trading seconds.
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Matt Edwards wins SS9 in Dònegal ! Very impressive as he's new to the Polo and Moffett and Devine are going flat out at the top trading seconds.
An even better time by Edwards on SS12 taking 7sec out of Devine and 14sec off Josh Moffett. He loves that Knockhalla stage !
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Just to prove he's not a one stage wonder, Edwards wins SS13 & SS14 by good margins too.
I believe he had diff issues on Friday so without that he would probably be challenging for the win.
That was also a different motor club organising the International too wasn’t it? And what used to be the Pokerstars Rally has crept ever closer to the traditional September date
Josh Moffett, the defending champion, is out of the Donegal International Rally following a crash on SS17, Fanad Head.
He and his co-driver are ok thankfully.
Callum Devine is now out in front by 53.1 seconds. Sam Moffett and Matt Edwards are now battling for 2nd place.
That sort of depends on how far back you go. Certainly during the later years the International event was organised by a separate company to limit any financial liability on the local motor clubs but it relied heavily on members of both local clubs for its manpower. There was a period in the 90's where both the National in May and International in September had the same Clerk of the Course.
The Pokerstars has grown considerably in recent years particularly following the demise of Rally Isle of Man. My guess is that that Manx Autosport's plan is for that event and the May event to form the basis of the two future events but they need a bit more time to get the teams together to run two events to the standard that's expected and they'll need IoM Government support for road closures and use of the TT facilities, for example, to run those events.
BRC - Ypres starts later this afternoon. The usual end of stage coverage on Facebook. I do wonder why Special Stage can do live coverage of BTRDA/National events, yet for the BRC, all we get is post stage coverage.....
Great start by Chris Ingram in Ypres, just 0.7s off the fastest time on SS1 !