![]() ![]() Starting on Saturday with a two minute lead in the Evo Challenge one could have expected that a safe drive to the finish would have been in order, however this ultra competitive duo had other things in mind. They also had some suspension worries on Friday evening and without spare suspensions, a mishap could be costly but the team applied some super glue to the offending part and it duly completed the weekend. They completed the evenings six stages unbeaten in their Evo category and were lying 13th overall at the overnight halt. This time was, of course, queried with officials through normal channels, however, the official ruling was that the time should stand.įriday evening also saw them suffer from differential worries and if it were not for David Bogie, who gave them his spare rear differential, they may not have been able to continue. On the second stage they did suffer a slight setback as the stage was cancelled as the result of an accident and they received the time of the last car to traverse the stage before the accident, which was about 20 sec slower than the time that they would have expected to traverse the stage in. They signalled their intent on Stage 1 when they took a 14.6second lead in their category from Neil McCance, who was competing on his home event! This saw them slotting into 11th overall in the rally. #Car fires for a second evom driversThe Rally, which as a counting round of both the Irish Tarmac Championship and the British Rally Championship, had attracted the best drivers from the two islands to battle over the sixteen special stages, some of which would be run in the dark. Keith Cronin and Greg Shinnors fought some mechanical demons to take a start to finish victory in the Evo Challenge section of the Todds Leap Ulster International Rally.
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