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Sports East Cork Biggest Sporting Event in 2018
Condell Snatches late victory on Imokilly Mini Stages Rally
by GER LEAHY On a hot summers day
in East Cork David Con- dell Paul Kelly took a well deserved win on the Ollie Kierce event
after
Cars Sponsored the
all day
pace setting crew of Barry Meade Colin
Fitzgerald
slid off on a junction on the penultimate stage and burst a compression strut , best local crew was Allen Treacy Bob Fitzgerald in the twin cam . On the opening stage
Meade set a time 17 sec- onds quicker that any one else in the Escort
no 2
seed Jack Newmann was already gone after a brush with the scenery Meade went on to set the pace again on stage 2 to lead the rally by 32 seconds as the cars headed for first service. The battle behind was heating up with Guest in his new Skoda Super 2000 heading David Con- dell
Tomas Davies and
Owen Murphy. Further back the battle
for top IMC crew was at fever pitch James Fitzger- ald was 8th was 9th 10th
Alen Treacy Jason Ryan was but the engine was blown and Kevin Dolphin was 11th .
the stages Barry Meade in the Escort increased
into 3rd
For the second run over his
lead to an impressive 44 seconds Condell
into second David Guest slipped
harder tyres and a the ser- vice Owen said things are going better .The battle for top IMC crew was no less intense with Allen Treacy in 8th
Slipping to 14th after a brush
Owen Murphy was climb- ing back up to 4th
settled while with
As the competitors
headed for the last loop stage 5 brought drama Barry Meade was out Condell now had
the
lead and it was an improv- ing Owen Murphy now slipped into second Tomas Davies was an impressive third David Guest dropped to 4th
was 5th
and Richard Moore with a 6th
overall for
and Kevin Dolphin , sadly the
loop had claimed James Fitzgerald
with the scenery.
Allen Treacy Bob Fitzger- ald first IMC crew home taking the Brian Hurley Award and Class winners by 1 second next IMC crew home were Kevin Dolphin Martin O Brien just outside the top ten,
the
Back at the finish ramp top crews heaped
praise on the event super drivers stages a hugely competitor friendly event and a great days motor- sport in East Cork. David Condell was de-
lighted with his win and in particular to be taking the Paul Mulcahy Trophy and the Donal O Brien Tro- phy, former
competitors
he rallied against and was friendly with that have sad- ly passed on . Cian Walsh from Mo-
geely took the IMC club Junior award .
FINAL STANDINGS 1
David Condell/Paul Kelly Ford Escort
2 3 4 5 6
Owen Murphy/Anthony Nestor Mitsubishi Evo 9
Tomas Davies/Eurig Davies Ford Escort 14 O/A
David Guest/Jonathan McGrath Skoda Fabia S2000
Richard Moore/John McCabe Ford Escort
Allen Treacy/Bob Fitzgerald Toyota Corolla
• Cian Walsh Top IMC Motor Club Jnr Driver with co driver Aaron Brown
• Deputy clerk of the course Eoin Treacy with Winning driver David Condell Ollie Kierce Event Sponsor Paul Kelly Winning Co driver and Clerk Of The Course Emmet Cronin
• Top IMC Crew Allen Treacy and Bob Fitzgerald Presented with the Brian Hurley Award by Mairead Hurley
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