Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Quality Hotels West Cork Rally 2011 Press Release 2

With less than three weeks to go before the Quality Hotels West Cork Rally, over 110 entries have been received for Cork Motor Clubs flagship event. One of those who has entered so far is Daragh O'Riordan who intends to debut his Subaru Impreza S12c WRC in Clonakilty. Multiple Bones O'Connor award winner John Dalton will also be back in his potent Darrian T90 GTR, and James Stafford is in a race against time to repair his similar car after an accident on last weekends Birr rally. Local driver Kevin Kelleher has also entered the event in his Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 and current Billy Coleman award winner Robert Barrable has entered his ex Hanninen Skoda Fabia S2000.

In the Citroen Racing Trophy 2011 of which the event is the first round, entries have been received to date from Joseph McGonigle, Mark Sheehan, Joe Shrimpton, Peter Barrable & Scott McElhinney. The Quality Hotels West Cork Rally is also the first round of the Windscreen Company Southern 4 Rally Championship. John & Sandy Corrigan from The Windscreen Company have come on board as title sponsors of this great clubman series for 2011. The classic Group B cars in the shape of Slowly Sideways will also be back in Clonakilty in 2011 after their successful appearances in the last two years. The Slowly Sideways cars will be in action on nine of the events seventeen stages over rally weekend.