County Monaghan Motor Club

Defending National Champions, Pakie Duffy & Evin Hughes kicked off the new Navigation season in style by taking overall honours on last weekend’s Monaghan Navigation Trial. COC Mac Kierans, ably assisted by Ruadhri Nash laid out a challenging 70 mile route in the Aghabog and Threemilehouse areas. Duffy/Hughes emerged victorious by just 1 penalty from Ashley McAdoo/Laurence Keenan with Semi-Expert pairing Michael Carbin/Darragh Kelly an impressive 3^rd overall.

The opening section of the event took crews from Aghabog to Stone Bridge, Kileevan, Newbliss and Threemilehouse. The majority of crews dropped two penalties at TP3. Plot & Bash at TP13, TP16 and TP17 saw more time dropped with some slippy lanes included in the mix. The final three plot & bash timepoints were between TP21-TP23. Duffy/Hughes held off a late charge from Ashley McAdoo/Laurence Keenan to take the win. Michael Carbin/Darragh Kelly took 3^rd overall on the “Semi-Expert beats Expert” rule which left Michael Tynan & Ciaran Tynan 4^th overall. Trevor Farrell & Noel Hall returned to the navigation scene after a short absence and secured 5^th overall, one further penalty adrift.

Novice class honours went to Mark Derry & Patrick O’Leary on 33 penalties. Keith McCormick/David McCrudden took 2^nd on 87 penalties with Cathal McKenna/Shane Farrell in 3^rd position on 110 penalties. Beginners class honours went to Colm Mohan/Conor Mohan on an impressive 45 penalties. Emmet McCooey/Conor Boylan finished 2^nd on 76 penalties with Mark Sheridan/Craig McPhillips in 3^rd on 172 penalties.

CO MONAGHAN M. C. NAVIGATION TRIAL TOP TEN

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1 Pakie Duffy/Evin Hughes (Subaru Impreza) 8 marks,
2 Ashley McAdoo/Laurence Keenan (Subaru Impreza) 9m,
3 Mickey Carbin/Darragh Kelly (Subaru Impreza) 11m,
4 Mickey Tynan/Ciaran Tynan (Subaru Impreza) 11m,
5 Trevor Farrell/Noel Hall (Subaru Impreza) 12m,
6 Martin Tynan/Damien Connolly (Subaru Impreza) 13m,
7 Richard Cassidy/Paul Phelan (Vauxhall Vectra) 17m,
8 Fintan Larmer/Sean McCaffrey (Subaru Impreza) 17m,
9 Mark Deery/Patrick O’Leary (Subaru Impreza) 33m,
10 Damien Treanor/Jonathan McGovern (Subaru Impreza) 35m,

The next event is the Drumlin Navigation Trial on Saturday 7^th/8^th November which is also the opening round of the National & Border Night Navigation Championships.

Foley Secures 2^nd International Win of the Year

 

Conor Foley joined forces with double Tarmac and National Stages Rally Champion, Donagh Kelly for last weekend’s Cork 20 International Rally. The pair had already tasted success at the Killarney Rally of the Lakes and they repeated their form to take a dominant win. Their main rival was four times Cork winner, Daragh O’Riordan. Just five seconds separated them after day one, with Kelly & Foley just in front. O’Riodan’s retirement on stage 11 left Kelly/Foley in the clear for victory. Keith Cronin/Shane Buckley took 2^nd place, almost two minutes behind with Melvyn Evans/Mark Glennester taking 3^rd.

Stephen Wright/Mickie Galvin took 4^th overall and a convincing victory in class 5. Pauric Duffy & Kevin Glynn finished 8^th overall and 3^rd in the same class. Brendan Cumiskey with Ronan O’Kane

on the notes finished 9^th overall. In the National Rally, Carrickmacross pairing Gerry McGivney/Gavin McGivney returned to the stages and finished 25^th overall and 4^th in

class 13. Brendan & JP McAree finished 5^th overall in the Historic Rally.

 

Upcoming Events

 

10^th October, Donegal Harvest Stages Rally

18^th October, Mayo Forestry Mini Stages Rally