Sam on Podium in Kerry

Sam Moffett and Shane Buckley finished 3^rd overall on last weekend’s Circuit of Kerry Stages Rally. The Tralee based event was Round 2 of the Motorsport Ireland Triton Showers National Rally Championship.

County Kilkenny man Eddie Doherty navigated by County Limerick’s Tom Murphy took a start to finish victory in their Skoda Fabia R5. The pair finished 27.3s ahead of 2^nd placed Robert Barrable/Gordon Noble who were driving a Rally2 version of the Skoda Fabia. (Moffett finished 9.8s off Barrable).

Paul Barrett/Darragh Kelly took their Citroën C3 Rally2 home in 7^th OA and 4^th in Class 5. Brendan Cumiskey/Martin Connolly finished 9^th OA in their VW Polo R5. Michael Carbin/Dean O’Sullivan finished 14^th OA and 4^th in Class 14. Tommy Moffett/Domhnall Lennon finished 25^th OA and 3^rd in Class 2. James McCarville/Arther Kierans finished 26^th OA and 3^rd in Class 13.

Johno Doogan/Paul Lennon retired after SS1. Daniel McConnon navigating for Frank Rafferty, also retired after SS1. Defending national champions, Josh Moffett/Keith Moriarty retired after SS6 with fuel pressure issues. They had been in 2^nd position overall at that stage (pun intended).

Rallye La Llana

Killian McArdle was competing in Spain last week. Killian was navigating for fellow Irishman, Casey Jay Coleman on in a Ford Fiesta Rally3. The pair finished the ten stage, two-day event in 19^th overall. The lads were using this event as a competitive test session for to get the car set up correctly and get a feel for Spanish Tarmac, as they are back in Spain this weekend, competing on the opening round of the European Rally Championship. Last week’s event was ideal for testing as it included three Service’s between the ten stages, so they had plenty of chances to try out different car set ups and find out if the changes worked or not.

The provisional National Navigation Trial Championship, points after the final round were published on Saturday. Ryan Treanor/Shane Dalton are the provisional champions after claiming 102 points in the ‘Best six plus Bonus’ total. A competitor counts their best six results out of the eight championship events, and receive five bonus points for starting six out of the eight events.

Evin Hughes/Pakie Duffy are provisionally in 2^nd place finishing on a total of 96 points. Andrew Mackarel finished 3^rd OA in the ‘Drivers’ championship while his navigator Gregory Shinnors finished 4^th in the ‘Navigators’ championship.

Gregory Shinnors finished 1^st Navigator in the Expert class due to missing out on 3^rd place overall. Oisín Sherlock finished 3^rd Expert Navigator.  Ciaran Maguire/Cathal McGlone, although not competing together as a team, finished 3^rd in the Semi-Expert class.  Gretchen and Martin Swinburne were comfortable winners of the Novice class. Darren Lavery/Aaron McGorman finished 2^nd in the Beginner class. (All results remain provisional at time of writing)

Oisín Sherlock