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Motor stars rev up for Inishowen
rally
06.10.11
THE country's top rally
drivers will arrive in Inishowen tomorrow for round
nine of the Dunlop National Rally Championship.
Festivities rev up with a ceremonial start in the
Square, Moville, at 8pm on Friday night offering a
great opportunity for fans to meet the top 20
competitors and the local stars along with their
cars before the real action starts on Saturday
morning.
The event consists of three individual stages being
used three times each, all within a 20-mile radius
of the service area in the Bailey car park,
Redcastle.
The rally has attracted a high quality entry with
many of Ireland’s star drivers including number 1
seed, 2010 Harvest Rally winner and 2011 Irish Group
N Champion Gary Jennings in a Subaru Impreza World
Rally Car and Monaghan's Mark 2 Ford Escort star
Gary McPhillips.
The first of the locals will be 2011 British Citroen
Trophy runner-up, Muff's Joseph McGonigle, who,
fresh from an 8th overall finish in last weekend’s
Cork 20 International Rally, will be hoping for a
similar result here in his Citroen C2R2 Max. |
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Top rally drivers will arrive in
Inishowen. |
Next up, at 42 are
class 11 frontrunners, Redcastle's Terry McGonagle
and navigator Mark Curran in their 1600cc Honda
Civic Type R. Carndonagh driver Paddy Walker and
navigator John Sweeney start at 65 just ahead of
another Carndonagh crew, JP Quigley and Emmett
Kelly.
Derek and Edward McGonagle start at 79 in their
distinctive yellow Mark 2 Escort with Quigley’s
Point crews Garrett McMonagle and James Logue and
Hugh Martin Toye and John Farren just behind in
their Honda Civic Type R's. Other local crews
include; 108 Ryan Turner, 109 Kevin McMonagle/Conor
McMonagle, 110 Pat McLaughlin/Linda Doherty, 111
Brian Quigley/Paul Deery, 119 Pauric Havlin/Jonathan
Havlin and junior crew J5 Shaun Diver/Bryan
Thompson. Rally programmes are available in most
shops in Inishowen. (Inishowen
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