There was quite a bit of British,
and Irish, interest in Rally Germany at the weekend with our very own John MacCrone and Dai Roberts finishing 38th
overall in the Watermans Accident Claims and Care Ford Fiesta R2. They also finished sixth in the RC2 class behind a
certain Max Vatanen!
At the finish John said: “It was a great feeling being
back in the World Rally Championship, and we’re delighted to come away with
such a good result. The old-style
normally-aspirated Fiesta wasn’t as powerful as the newer R2 cars, and it
didn’t have the new brakes and suspension either, so we concentrated on trying
to bring the car home in the best possible position we possibly could. And
thanks to the performance of the DMACK tyres, we were able to achieve exactly
what we set out to do. The icing on the cake was winning the ‘Vatanen Touch’ nomination, and I really must
thank DMACK for giving me this incredible opportunity at the end of the year.”
As a winner of the
Vatanen Touch nomination, John’s prize will be an invitation to an end of
season DMACK shootout, where the prize is a drive in an M-Sport Fiesta R5 car
on a round of the 2016 FIA World Rally Championship!
Wonder if Mull could be included
in next year’s WRC, eh?
Peugeot Rally Academy driver
Craig Breen and Scott ‘Scoot’ Martin survived a huge high speed spin on SS5 to
finish 18th overall in the SAINTéLOC Racing run Peugeot 208T16 while
Eamon Boland was 28th in his Subaru Impreza. Manchester’s Graham
Coffey was 47th overall in his Fiesta WRC but might have done rather
better had it not been for hitting a rock on SS3 and tearing off a wheel!
At least he finished. Marty
McCormack retired his Skoda S2000 on SS19, Tom Cave retired his Fiesta R2 on
the fifth test after a big impact with some German trees and Gus Greensmith had
a terminal problem with his Fiesta R2 on SS20.
