Ford Ka Championship - GERRY HAS THE KEY.

Posted: June 5, 2002 8:58 AM

The Circuit of Munster with eight fast flowing Special Stages based in West Limerick proved to be supreme test of man and machine. With the first two stages cancelled due to accidents, the third stage underlined the competitiveness of the 2002 Ford Ireland KA Rally Championship with Gerry Keyes, Mark Kane (Tullamore) and David Lyons (Limerick) stopping the clocks on exactly the same time of five minutes and seven seconds.

On Stage Two, David Lyons set the pace recording fastest KA Stage time to take the lead from Mark Kane by just five seconds. Gerry Keyes in the O’Dwyer was delayed on the stage when he encountered another competitor reversing against him on a live stage, the resulting time loss dropped him to third.

Mark Kane attacked Stage five in an attempt to wrestle the lead from Lyons, however he was caught out on a series of jumps which catapulted his Ford KA into the scenery. Keyes fought back magnificently to set the next three fastest KA stage times. Going into the eight and final stage of the day, Keyes was only ten seconds in arrears to Lyons. The battle was going down to the wire. Keyes completed the final stage of the day. However there was a sting in the tail for Lyons, another competitor had crashed blocking the stage, Lyons arrived upon the scene of the accident dropping valuable time and handed the lead to Keyes, his third of the year.

Kenneth Mulvaney (Sligo) got his Championship title hopes back on track to score a well deserved third place overall, setting one fastest KA Stage time along they way.

The next round of the 2002 Ford Ireland KA Rally Championship sees the Ford KA army head to Waterford for the Ravens Rock Rally on the 30th of June.

     1
     Gerry Keyes
     Crecora, Co. Limerick
     0

      2
     Mark Kane
     Tullamore, Co. Offaly
     0.00.13

      3
     David Lyons
     Limerick
     0.00.11

      4
     John Folan
     Galway
     0.00.57

      5
     James Eivers
     Blarney, Co. Cork
     0.00.16

      6
     Vivian Noone
     Cashel, Co. Tipperary
     0.00.56

      7
     Martin Laverty
     Magherafelt, Co. Derry
     0.00.11

      8
     Trevor Harding
     Cashel, Co. Tipperary
     DNF

      9
     Kenneth Mulvaney
     Coolaney, Co. Sligo
     DNF

      10
     Trevor Hutton
     Carlow
     DNF

      11
     Allard Johnston
     Dublin
     DNS

      12
     Emily O'Mahony
     Cork
     DNS

      13
     Keith Colton
     Tullamore, Co. Offaly
     DNS

      14
     Niall O'Sullivan
     Hospital, Co. Limerick
     DNS


CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS AFTER ROUND 3

      POS.
     NAME
     ADDRESS
     POINTS

      1
     Gerry Keyes
     Crecora, Co. Limerick
     90

      2
     James Eivers
     Blarney, Co. Cork
     63

      3
     David Lyons
     Clarina, Limerick
     62

      4
     John Folan
     Galway
     57

      5
     Vivian Noone
     Cashel, Co. Tipperary
     49

      -
     Kenneth Mulvaney
     Coolaney, Co. Sligo
     49

      7
     Martin Laverty
     Magherafelt, Co. Derry
     41

      8
     Trevor Harding
     Cashel, Co. Tipperary
     21

      9
     Emily O'Mahony
     Carrigaline, Co. Cork
     13

      10
     Trevor Hutton
     Carlow
     12

      11
     Allard Johnston
     Dublin
     0

      12
     Austin Bishop
     Dublin
     0

      13
     Keith Colton
     Tullamore, Co. Offaly
     0

      14
     Niall O'Sullivan
     Hospital, Co. Limerick
     0