Treanor Top Club Member in Skibbereen  

                          

Ryan Treanor and his County Longford driver, Shane Dalton extended their National Navigation Championship lead with a 4^th place finish on last weekend’s 100 Isles Navigation Trial. The event was hosted by the Skibbereen and District Car Club. Clerk of the Course for this latest championship round was Colm Feen, who is also a County Monaghan Motor Club member.

The event was an extremely tight affair as the top three overall finished the 85-mile event on identical penalties (marks). Eash of, Denis O’Donovan/Bones O’Connor, Patrick Corcoran/Patsy McDonagh, Patrick O’Sullivan/Owen Murphy finished having acquired a total of 5 marks. O’Donovan/O’Connor took the tiebreak victory for getting the furthest into the event before picking up a mark. Treanor/Dalton finished just a single mark in arrears and took 3^rd in the Expert class. Fellow Monaghan Motor Club members Evin Hughes/Pakie Duffy finished right behind them in 5^th place, having picked up 8 marks.

1000 Shakes Navigation Trial COC’s, Greg Shinnors/Andrew Mackarel finished 8^th overall on 24m. Gretchen and Martin Swinburne, just home from the Caribbean on Wednesday, finished just behind them in 9^th overall. Ray and Stephen O’Neill finished 11^th overall.

The National Navigation Championship resumes with Cavan Motor Club’s Navigation on Saturday night the 22^nd of February. Anthony McDonald and Sean McConnell have organised a tough 85-mile event based out of MacSeains Pub and Golf in Cornafean. Regulations and Entry are available now.

Longford Stages Rally

The Launch of The Jeremy O’Connor Longford Arms Hotel Stages Rally 2025, took place on Sunday last at the Longford Arms Hotel. The Rally takes place on Sunday the 2^nd of March. The event will be opening round of each of the, Triton Showers National Rally Championship, Sligo Pallets Border Rally Championship, Dacia Sandero Challenge Cup, Hugo Looman Midlands East Rally Championship and the Motorsport Ireland Junior Rally Series. The Sligo Pallets Border Rally Championship was also launched on the day.

JWRC

Conor Mohan has flown to Sweden recently in preparation for this weeks Rally Sweden. The event begins this coming Thursday and will be the opening round of the 2025 Junior World Rally Championship. Conor is once again competing in the JWRC with Eamonn Kelly.

Oisín Sherlock