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Ford Focus Championship - Round 3 Clare Stages Rally Posted: September 23, 2002 10:08 AM
MURPHY SCORES MAIDEN VICTORY
Colm Murphy from Athea, Co. Limerick scored his maiden victory on the third round of Irelands premier one make rally championship, the 2002 Ford Ireland Focus Rally Championship, at the Clare Stages Rally.
Colm in the Kingdom Fast fit/ Guerin Crash Repairs/O'Keefe Haulage Ford Focus once again was involved in a ding-dong battle all day with his great rivals Oliver Stanley (Durrow) and Cathal O'Reilly (Cavan). With the first stage of the day cancelled, Oliver Stanley in the Perry Motors Ford Focus set fastest Focus stage time on the second and opening stage of the day; despite the cautious start the Athea crew set second fastest time. However disaster struck as Colm increased his pace on stage three, he ran wide at a very fast corner clipping a bank, damaging his front suspension. Limping off the stage luckily Colm was able to head into service and get his car repaired in time to resume the battle.
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Clare Stages Rally
The new T-230R, the first turbo charged front wheel drive rally car to be released from the Gordon Spooner Engineering stable, developed in conjunction with Mountune Race Engines and DPRS, is to make its competition debut as course car on the Clare Stages, based at Ennis in County Clare, a round of the Irish National Championship on Sunday 3rd September.
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