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Austin McHale makes RallyCross return for championship finale |
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Wednesday, 21 November 2007 |
The final
round of the 2007 Motorsport Ireland National Rallycross championship
takes place at Mondello Park this weekend with an excellent Supercar
entry including Austin McHale who makes his first Rallycross appearance
for many years. The County Kildare Motor Club will be in charge for
Sunday's event which is the final round of the '07 championship and the
third round of the new Winter series which will climax in March '08.
McHale's appearance comes just one week after his appearance on Rally
Ireland and marks his first Rallycross event since the early days of
the sport in Ireland. The Rathcoole driver will pilot George Tracey's
Ford RS200 on his one-off appearance and will join the cars owner in a
ten car Supercar entry. Tracey will pilot his Metro 6R4 and will be
also up against old rival Dermot Carnegie's Fiesta, Derek Jobb with his
Ford Escort Cosworth and English visitor Kevin Proctor's Puma alongside
the remaining Supercars.
The Modified classes have attracted a strong twenty five car entry
boosted by the appearance of UK visitor Ben Power with his indecently
fast Ford Ka. Of the Irish runners the trio of Coyne brothers are
usually the ones to watch with Michael in his extremely quick Nova the
most likely to come out on top in the class as well as challenging the
Supercars in the Superfinal.
Of the remaining classes the standard 'Stockhatch' class is as always
the strongest with close to thirty competitors and this is followed by
the Rallycar classes and the Junior Rallycross class for 14 to 17 year
olds. The event gets underway at 10.00 on Sunday with the first round
of qualifying heats. Two more runs of heats will be followed by the
championship deciding finals which are set to get underway at 15:30.
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TIMETABLE
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09:00
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Practice Commences
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09:45
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Practice Finishes
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10:00
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Heats Run 1
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11:30
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Heats Run 2
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13:00
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Lunch Break
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13:45
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Heats Run 3 |
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15:30
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Finals
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correction due to wrong information. This weekends event will be run by the County Kildare Motor Club and
not the Carlow Car Club as stated in the previous press release.
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