Car 1 Glenn Allen/Damien Connolly
“Slipping and sliding all day…circuits are not my strong point!”

Car 2 Denis Biggerstaff/Shane Braniff
“We stalled and had a couple of moments. Not sure why we were so far off the pace!”

Car 3 Connor McCloskey/Francis Regan
“Really enjoyed the day, great battle. I’m going to do the full championship and maybe one or two other events this year.”

Car 4 Sean Devine/Damien Duffin
“Hard day, very tight but everything went smooth enough. Good to get maximum points at the first round of the championship.”

Car 5 Raymond Johnston/Richard Bell
“We had a wee electronic problem with the gearbox. On slow corners, it automatically went from second to third, and when I put it back down to second, it went into neutral. So decided to call it a day before breaking anything.”

Car 6 George Robinson/Derek Murdoch
“Nudged a couple of bales but we had a good run.”

Car 10 Sean McArdle/Jim Feenan
“No problems!”

Car 11 Craig Bennett/Alan Shilliday
“The centre diff seized on stage two, causing the car to lock up and spin.”

Car 12 Eoin McErlean/Donard McCann
“We caught another car on four of the six stages, and also received a 10 second penalty. Then we bent the steering arm!”

Car 13 Ian Cochrane/David Vance
“Broke a shaft very near the end of the final stage.”

Car 14 Paul Ward/Peter Ward
“We broke an engine mount on the first stage. We also clipped a few tyres!”

Car 19 Andrew Ritchie/Garnet McFetridge
“We’ve just been setting the car up, now we’ll get ready for Bishopscourt. Happy enough!”

Car 21 Gary McEvoy/Keith McEvoy
“Just clipped a chicane on stage five and it put us out of the rally. Very disappointed.”

Car 22 Gary Bell/Harvey Bell
“Brake problems – it was an interesting day!”

Car 23 Ruairi McCloskey/David Burns
“No problems, although there are a few scrapes up the side!”

Car 25 Enda McNulty/Declan Campbell
“We have a few bumps and scrapes, but you get those around Coalisland for free! Great day!”

Car 26 Wesley Patterson/Terence Teggart
“Great day, no problems!”

Car 28 Gareth Nevin/Jonathan Nevin
“We have some panel damage after going through a chicane!”

Car 29 Paul Barrett/Dermot Colgan
“It’ll be a good car once we can get it sorted!”

Car 30 John Waring/Mo Downey
“We had a puncture and lost about 15 seconds but it was still a brilliant day.”

Car 31 David Armstrong/Frank McPolin
“We’ve only got the car and there are a few teething problems – we need to change the gearbox.”

Car 33 Stewart Clarke/Desmond Dolan
“Mighty day, super craic!”

Car 34 Mervyn Wedlock/Laura Wedlock
“Great day, different to the tarmac that I’m used to. It was good to get my daughter out”

Car 35 Brian McFall/Donal Lennon
“The diff was playing up all day.”

Car 39 Geoffrey McMahon/Robert Graham
“We put new tyres on for the final stage and she just got too much grip off the line and broke a shaft.”

Car 41 Dominic Carson/William Brown
“Good day, just need an Evo 9 now!”

Car 42 Niall Henry/Oliver McErlean
“Had clutch problems during the last two stages.”

Car 43 Philip Ewart/Michael Hall
“Had a couple of wee spins but definitely enjoyed it!”

Car 46 Martin McAteer/Pat O’Neill
“Haven’t been feeling the best all day…but it was self inflicted!”

Car 49 Kieran O’Neill/Shane Buckley
“Engine dropped a valve, I hate rallying!”

Car 50 Gary Price/David Caldwell
“Car was only finished the day before the rally, so this was my first time out in it. It was more of a testing day for us, but at least we didn’t knock any corners off!”

Car 52 Derek Gurney/Paul McBride
“There was a probably with the times and we dropped back but still had a good day.”

Car 53 Stephen Nevin/Jaye Nevin
“We went off on the first stage and had to fight back – it was so close at the finish!”

Car 54 Mark Greer/Brian Todd
“We bent a quarter panel on the second stage but had a good run other than that.”

Car 56 Geoffrey Nevin/Paul Nevin
“We got caught behind someone on the last stage.”

Car 58 William McClurkin/Ryan O’Connor
“We let Nevin past us and then we couldn’t see a thing with the dust – it was a black out. Then someone else crashed on the last stage and we had to stop.”

Car 60 Alan Jardine/Philip McDowell
“We had no power steering for most of the day, and the bonnet flew open after the start of one of the stages!”

Car 64 Andrew Trotter/Kevin Creighan
“We were stopped by a marshal on the last stage – not good.”

Car 66 Maurice Jellie/Gerald Stanley
“We spun on the first stage but had a good day.”

Car 67 Glenn Williamson/Mervyn Hawthorne
“We were waved down on the last stage. Thought it was all over so we stopped and that messed it up for us. Very annoyed!”

Car 73 William Smith/Stephen Smith
“So close in the battle for the class, great day!”

Car 74 Roger Donnan/Gary McNairn
“We caught a couple of cars during the day, but we still enjoyed it!”

Car 76 Simon Gordon/Billy Regan
“We pulled a shaft out and had problems with a brake pad but at least we finished.”

Car 77 David Kerr/Lewis Boyd
“We had a brake problem on the first stage but still managed to get a great result!”

Car 79 Darren McMurran/Adrian Park
“Had to push the car to start it every time!”

Car 80 Andrew Hamilton/Jonathan Charlesson
“We were caught on the last stage – just pipped to the class win by two seconds!”

Car 84 Samuel Wilson/Liam Quigg
“Good day, no problems. We were stopped by a marshal on the last stage but at least we got to the finish in one piece.”

Car 85 Gary Madden/Liam Brown
“We had a good run through the last stage, no problems!”

Car 86 Paul Mogey/Michael O’Neill
“We had a bad seeding and we were catching cars all day, but still had a good run.”

Car 89 Colin Lavery/Lisa Lavery
“Some damage to the right hand side, bit of craic!”

Car 90 Gerald Quinn/Graham Patterson
“We had a good run, no problems!”

Car 93 Joe McAteer/Carolyn Gribben
“We have one wee ding on the car but I think most people did that!”

Car 94 John Hughes/Conal McCartan
“It was five years ago when I was last here – good day!”

Car 96 Robert Erwin/Chris Ragg
“It was very close (in the class) – it’s good craic when it’s so close!”

Car 103 Trison McMullan/Liam McAuley
“We ran out of fuel on the last corner so we had to coast over the finish!”

Car 104 John Ryan/Mark McColgan
“We had a few wee mishaps at the chicane!”

Car 105 Dermot O’Hagan/Barry McKenna
“We were 2.7seconds behind Brian Black going into the last stage – but managed to get the class win by one tenth of a second!”

Car 109 Mark Robinson/Shane Robinson
“We lost three and a half minutes when the distributor cable came off.”

Car 110 John Devlin/Alan Woods
“There’s a new engine in the car and I couldn’t rev over 6000rpm all day but we’re happy enough”

Car 113 Norman Rutherford/Kenneth Rutherford
“We had a lack of petrol over the last stage!”

Car 114 Nigel Simpson/Austin Grimes
“It was our first day in the car and we had a good run.”

Car 115 Brian Vance/Ciaran McNamara
“The car stopped at the start of stage one and we got a stage maximum.”

Car 120 Shane Timony/Rodney Torrington
“Bogged her in the first stage and got a stage maximum! Also cut a chicane too close and lost our wing mirror!”

Car 122 Richard Charles/Sinead McGrath
“The engine management isn’t right – it has been running rich all day but we’ll get it sorted for Bishopscourt.”

Car 124 Sonya Mac/Safron Thomas
“Gearbox broke just after the start of stage one!”

Car 125 Glen Irwin/Derek Torrens
“We caught another car three times – other than that, we had a good day!”

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