   Wm Loughman Memorial Forestry Rally 2010 Organised and Promoted by Carrick on Suir Motor Club limited Event Results Final Instruction 1 Time Schedule Wm. Loughman Forestry Rally 2010 Entry List (pdf format) Wm. Loughman Forestry Rally 2010 Entry List (Excel Format) Event Preview Craig Breen / Ford Fiesta Super 2000: 00 car HANS Incentive for Northern & UK Competitors Carrick-on-Suir Motor Club are delighted to announce the supply of HANS units to any Northern or UK competitors FREE OF CHARGE for this weekends rally. Any Northern or UK competitors not currently entered in the rally can avail of this offer. Competitors wishing to enter the rally and avail of this special offer please contact; Eoin O Neill on 00353-51-640000 or 00353-87-2276699, Eoin will provide you with a voucher number which you must produce to CCS Race N Rally who will be at the event Scrutiny area . Please book your free HANS unit in advance with CCS Race N Rally by contacting 00353-61-718766 or 00353-87-2525453. Remember to contact: Eoin for your voucher number first! The 2010 Wm Loughman Forestry Rally will host the second round of this year’s Petro Systems National Forestry Rally Championship on the 7th of March next. Organized by the Carrick on Suir Motor Club the event will be based in Carrick on Suir, with the headquarters in the Carraig Hotel. Barry Duggan steps up this year to Clerk of the Course and he would like to welcome competitors, officials and spectators to the Club’s first rally of the year. Barry and his event team have been working hard over the winter months in preparation and can now announce that the event will feature four stage locations, two of which will be repeated and two will be covered once with a total stage distance of 68km. Road distance is approximately 114 km. The 2010 event will be counting rounds in the following Championships. •(Round 2) Petro Systems National Forestry Championship. •(Round 2) Trition Showers South East Stages Rally Championship. Barry reports that all the stages are in excellent condition and the rally will see the club run 20Km of the famous Gurteen special stage. The Carrick Club are delighted to welcome back as National Forestry Championship sponsor Petro Systems Management. Petro Systems Management Limited based in Crookstown, Co.Cork provide a large range of products to the fuel forecourt industry including fuel pumps, fuel depot installations, car/truck washes and recycle units. Petro Systems Management also provides POS systems and tank monitoring with annual maintenance available. O’Connell Scores Maiden Win in Mitchelstown Petro Systems National Forestry Rally Championship (Round 1 Report Courtesy of Austin Shinnors Championship PRO) Tipperary driver Pat O’Connell won his first ever rally on last Sunday’s Sean Conlon Memorial Forest rally. Lying second at first service and when Andrew Purcell experienced brake problems, O’Connell went into a lead he never surrendered. O’Connell was runner up in last years Petro Systems forest championship and he was clearly delighted with his first big win. Dubliner John Reid was runner up in the Toyota Corolla WRC, and he was joined on the podium by Seamus O’Connell in Escort Mk2. Fourth place was taken by Enda Mc Nulty, the Coalisland driver would have finished higher if he did not incur a two minute penalty. John Mc Laughlin and Ollie Williams were fifth and sixth respectively. In an impressive seventh overall was Vincent Mc Aree, the Ballinode man in his first ever four wheel drive rally car. Mc Aree was winner of the junior class of the 2009 Petro Systems National Forest Rally Championship and his prize was a drive in Daragh Raftery’s Group N Impreza. Insurance cover was provided by Motorsport Ireland while the fuel and tyres were provided by Jim Crozier and Christy Carey (Race n rally) respectively. The 8 stage (84km) rally was hosted by the Tipperary MC, and was based in Mitchelstown. It ran faultlessly thanks to the efforts of COC John Ward and his team. Fifty five started the rally and there were twenty nine finishers. The principal retirements were Andrew Purcell (OTL) James Murphy Escort WRC (accident), Frank Kelly Escort Mk2 (drive shaft failure) and James Coleman Escort Mk2 (drive shaft failure). Top Ten Sean Conlon Memorial rally 1 Pat O'Connell/Mark Wiley (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 Gp N) 57m 33s. 2 John Reid/Enda Shields (Toyota Corolla WRC) 59m 25s. 3 Seamus O'Connell/Brian Duggan (Ford Escort Mk II) 61m 10s. 4 Enda McNulty/Ronan O'Kane (Subaru Impreza WRX) 61m 25s. 5 John McLaughlin/Ray Fitzpatrick (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 Gp N) 62m 23s. 6 Ollie Williams/Michael Walsh (Ford Escort Mk II) 63m 40s. 7 Vincent McAree/J P McAree (Subaru Impreza GC-8 GpN) 64m 22s. 8 Bob Scanlon/Suzanne Wright (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 Gp N) 64m 43s. 9 Mark Murphy/Carol O'Keeffe (Subaru Impreza WRX) 65m 19s. 10 Michael Cuddihy/Richie Coady (Toyota Starlet 1600) 66m 18s. Event Leaders: Stage 1 and 2 Andrew Purcell. Stage 3-8 Pat O’Connell. Class Winners: Class 1. Andrew Fanning Ford Ka Class 2. Michael Nevin Ford Escort Class 3. Michael Cuddihy Starlet Class 4. Nigel Creagh Ford Escort Class 5. Oliver Williams Ford Escort Class 6. Enda Mc Nulty Mitsubishi Evo Class 7. John Reid Toyota Corolla WRC Class 8. Pat O’Connell Mitsubishi Evo | 
