British Rally Championship Round 2 - Pirelli International Rally

[rdjones]

It's round 2 of the BRC this weekend and its the Pirelli International Rally up in killer Kilder. The event underway tonight and we have had 2 of the 7 stages already and the top 10 looks like this:-

1 M. HIGGINS FORD WRC 3:59.9
2 A. MCHALE FORD WRC +2.0
3 D. HIGGINS MITSUBISHI +3.7
4 P. BIRD FORD WRC +5.1
5 J. MILNER TOYOTA WRC +7.0
6 S. LING HYUNDAI WRC +9.1
7 R. GALLIGAN MITSUBISHI +10.5
8 S. PEREZ FORD WRC +11.5
9 J. INGRAM FORD WRC +12.9
10 T. LAUKKANEN SUBARU +13.0

As with the Welsh Rally last month, there is live coverage on Globlecast907.

[rdjones]

The top 10 at the end of day 1 looks like this:-

1 Mark Higgins/Bryan Thomas (Focus WRC) 44.13.5
2 Austin MacHale/Brian Murphy (Focus WRC) 44.18.2
3 David Higgins/Daniel Barritt (Lancer N) 44.41.2
4 Paul Bird/Ian Windress (Focus WRC) 44.59.2
5 Gareth MacHale/Paul Nagle (Corolla WRC) 45.03.4
6 Sebastian Ling/Ian Allsop (Accent WRC) 45.23.0
7 Tapio Laukkanen/Harri Kaapro (Impreza N) 45.28.3
8 Steve Perez/Neil Dashfield (Focus WRC) 45.31.0
9 Jonny Milner/Nicky Beech (Corolla WRC) 45.34.7
10 Richard Gower/Aled Davies (Accent WRC) 46.16.2

So Mark Higgins leads, but a puncture on stage 3 cost over a minute, but he has pulled the time back nicely. Anyway 2 day gets underway shortly.....

[rdjones]

The top 10 after stage 11 looks like this:-

1 Mark Higgins/Bryan Thomas (Focus WRC) 1.11.13.2
2 Paul Bird/Ian Windress (Focus WRC) 1.11.13.4
3 Austin MacHale/Brian Murphy (Focus WRC) 1.11.42.3
4 Gareth MacHale/Paul Nagle (Corolla WRC) 1.12.15.8
5 Sebastian Ling/Ian Allsop (Accent WRC) 1.12.31.8
6 Steve Perez/Neil Dashfield (Focus WRC) 1.12.42.9
7 Tapio Laukkanen/Harri Kaapro (Impreza N) 1.12.47.2
8 David Higgins/Daniel Barritt (Lancer N) 1.12.54.2
9 Richard Gower/Aled Davies (Accent WRC) 1.14.03.5
10 Jonny Milner/Nicky Beech (Corolla WRC) 1.14.41.0

[rdjones]

Well the rally is over and the top 10 looks like this:-

1 Mark Higgins/Bryan Thomas (Focus WRC) 1.55.35.8
2 Paul Bird/Ian Windress (Focus WRC) 1.57.12.9
3 Austin MacHale/Brian Murphy (Focus WRC) 1.57.48.7
4 Gareth MacHale/Paul Nagle (Corolla WRC) 1.58.57.3
5 Sebastian Ling/Ian Allsop (Accent WRC) 1.59.26.3
6 Tapio Laukkanen/Harri Kaapro (Impreza N) 1.59.53.2
7 David Higgins/Daniel Barritt (Lancer N) 2.00.34.1
8 Jonny Milner/Nicky Beech (Corolla WRC) 2.01.42.0
9 Stephen Petch/Michael Wilkinson (Impreza N) 2.04.48.9
10 Lorna Smith/Dave Robson (Impreza N) 2.05.37.7

[mole2k]

How does this 2nd round leave the championship looking so far?

[flagwaver]

With the level of entry being so low, one wonders if the championship can carry on. Mind you the BTTC is carrying on.
perhaps they could compine them

[DirtyBertie]

Any body have news about Jon Ingram after his little off?

[rdjones]

Originally Posted by DirtyBertie

Any body have news about Jon Ingram after his little off?

I have just picked this up from britishrally.co.uk forum:-

Jon had a bit of a bad neck before the event and after the impact he complained he couldn't move his neck so the stage was stopped and Jon was airlifted to Carlisle hospital. However after a few X-rays they where happy he was OK and just badly bruised so he was discharged later that day and went home last night.