Aer Lingus Motor Club to rally through Meath
The 2013 Triton Showers ALMC Stages Rally takes place on Sunday 7th July and with close to forty UK crews along with a similar number of local competitors already entered in the event, it should make for an exciting stages rally.
The event with backing from local rally driver and businessman Kevin Barrett of Triton Showers will see both Kevin and his son Paul take to the Meath lanes as they go head to head with the leading UK crews.
Leading entries include 2010 winner of the rally Damian Cole in his Ford Focus WRC and John Stone who returns to the Irish stages in his Skoda Fabia WRC and hoping for better luck and a trouble free run this year. Other championship regulars will include Simon Mauger in his ultra quick Ford Escort MKII and Stephen Simpson in his Subaru Impreza WRC S12.
Paul Bird with co-driver Aled Davies brings his Ford Focus WRC to the ALMC event along with Graham Coffey in his Impreza S12B. Class fourteen is set to be a real contest with no fewer than seven Ford Escorts entered and two Darrian T90’s visiting from the UK plus other notable entries the Metro 6R4’s of Mark Jasper and Simon Chapman. Local entry Pat Price in his Impreza N12B will be faced with stiff competition in group N against Chris Rice and Richard Barnard both bringing their group N Impreza’s.
This year’s rally with new clerk of the course Raymond Scullion at the helm has moved to the Dunboyne Castle Hotel & Spa as headquarters and is once again a counting round of the Get Connected REIS UK Asphalt Rally Championship, the Loughran Signs Midlands East Rally Championship and the newly established C2 Cup. This year’s rally will once again feature the popular loop of three stages run three times with the stages located in County Meath and provides competitors with over 120km of competitive stages. The popular stages event has attracted sponsorship from a number of businesses with Triton Showers taking title sponsorship and the three stages sponsored by Centra Shop Summerhill, ProTune the specialists in engine remapping and Carberry Sand and Gravel all coupled with on the ground support from Dunboyne Motor Club. This year’s event as with last year also features classes for Historic and Junior competitors with them competing on six stages of the rally and there will be additional prizes on offer for the winner of the MkII challenge and the Honda Civic entries in the event.
Make-A-Wish Foundation, Ireland are the chosen charity for this year’s rally, The mission of the Make-A-Wish Foundation is to grant the wishes of children aged between three and 18 years living with a life-threatening medical conditions. Raffle tickets for a wide variety of prizes will be on sale throughout the rally weekend with all the proceeds going to the charity. Entries for the rally are still open and will remain so until Thursday 4th July ensuring a maximum entry. Full details are available on the dedicated stages website www.almcstagesrally.com or via the club website at www.almc.ie where regulations are also available for download. For more details on the event or additional rights free photographs contact Alan on 086 2582 663 or email pro@almc.ie
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Sponsor Image from left to right - John Carroll ALMC Motor Club Chairman, Raymond Scullion COC, Noel Devlin Deputy COC and Kevin Barrett Triton Showers.
Group image - ALMC Motor Club stages rally team, members of Dunboyne Motor Club, Make a Wish Foundation team & Event Sponsors