Rally of the Lakes 2006

[rogerally]

Killarney International Rally of the Lakes 2006
ORDNANCE SURVEY KILLARNEY INTERNATIONAL RALLY OF THE LAKES 2006
Killarney and District Motor Club are pleased to announce details of the 2006 Rally of The Lakes which will take place during the May Bank Holiday weekend, 28th - 30th April. The largest sporting event in Killarney and one of the biggest sporting occasions in the country is once again sponsored by Ordnance Survey Ireland and the Gleneagle Hotel. Now in its 27th year, the rally has already received over 100 entries, such is the popularity of this great event.

The event is round three of the Pirelli Irish Tarmac Rally Championship, one of the highest profile series in Europe and is also round two of the 023 Tiles Southern Four Rally Championship. Added European flavour will be provided by competitors taking part in the West Euro Cup, of which this event is also the second round. A separate rally for Junior competitors is also now entering its third year. Competitors in all the different rallies will also have the benefit of a practice stage at Clonkeen on Friday 28th.

Clerk of the Course Gary McCormick has devised a new route. This route includes some of Ireland’s most challenging and revered strips of tarmac, such as Molls Gap (the most famous rallying location in Ireland), Ballaghbema and Caragh Lake, but there are also some new tests to consider. “We have still retained the great classics, but also this year we have ventured into some new territory for Ordnance Survey Rally of the Lakes” commented Gary “We look forward to welcoming all our old friends, and those competitors making their first trip to Killarney. We can assure them of a memorable visit and a rally which will long live in their memory.”

Entries already received include Eamon Boland- Focus WRC, Denis Cronin-Subaru WRC, West Cork Rally winner Melvyn Evans- Subaru WRC, and Seamus Leonard- Group N Mitsubishi. The top local drivers include Alan Ring and Johnny O’Sullivan.

The official launch of the Ordnance Survey Rally of The Lakes in association with the Gleneagle Hotel will be at the Brehon Hotel, Killarney, 8pm on Sunday April 9th. John O’ Donoghue the Minister of Arts, Sports and Tourism will be there to launch the event which brings a staggering euro into the local economy. John also recently showed his support for Rally Ireland, Ireland’s bid for a World Rally Championship round, as he clearly recognises the importance of rallying as a sport. Aside from the huge spectator numbers expected, the Ordnance Survey Rally of the Lakes will command serious media attention, not just from the print media, but television with the event being shown all over the world on Ulster Television, RTE, Motors TV and Sky Sports on the RPM programme.

Deze wedstrijd telde een aantal jaren geleden mee voor volgens mij het DRO. Zijn er nog nederlandse equipes die naar Ierland afreizen dit jaar.
Ik weet in ieder van het alfa glas racing team de equipe Van Waardenburg/Kustermans met de Saxo.

[Amazone]

Deze wedstrijd telde een aantal jaren geleden mee voor volgens mij het DRO. Zijn er nog nederlandse equipes die naar Ierland afreizen dit jaar.
Ik weet in ieder van het alfa glas racing team de equipe Van Waardenburg/Kustermans met de Saxo.

Niet het DRO (inmiddels RDO),
maar opgenomen in de West Euro Cup( zie www.westeurocup.com )

[Hein]

Deze wedstrijd telde een aantal jaren geleden mee voor volgens mij het DRO. Zijn er nog nederlandse equipes die naar Ierland afreizen dit jaar.
Ik weet in ieder van het alfa glas racing team de equipe Van Waardenburg/Kustermans met de Saxo.

Niet het DRO (inmiddels RDO),
maar opgenomen in de West Euro Cup( zie www.westeurocup.com )

Toen de Rally of the Lakes meetelde voor het NK was het nog DRO, Wea.

Daarna Hypohuis Rally Open en nu Rallyclinic Dutch open.
Maar jij was er toch een paar jaartjes tussenuit geweest?

[Amazone]

Toen de Rally of the Lakes meetelde voor het NK was het nog DRO, Wea.

Daarna Hypohuis Rally Open en nu Rallyclinic Dutch open.
Maar jij was er toch een paar jaartjes tussenuit geweest?

Oww, sorry...je hebt natuurlijk helemaal gelijk!
Maar ik bedoelde eigenlijk: niet meer voor het INL Kampioenschap, maar wel in de WEC.

Enneh...Chris en Marjolein heeel veel succes daar, we gaan jullie zeker volgen (via internet helaas)

[Peer]

Deze wedstrijd telde een aantal jaren geleden mee voor volgens mij het DRO. Zijn er nog nederlandse equipes die naar Ierland afreizen dit jaar.
Ik weet in ieder van het alfa glas racing team de equipe Van Waardenburg/Kustermans met de Saxo.

Niet het DRO (inmiddels RDO),
maar opgenomen in de West Euro Cup( zie www.westeurocup.com )

Toen de Rally of the Lakes meetelde voor het NK was het nog DRO, Wea.

Daarna Hypohuis Rally Open en nu Rallyclinic Dutch open.
Maar jij was er toch een paar jaartjes tussenuit geweest?

Het was toen gewoon INRK

[rogerally]

Zojuist gelezen op de site van de wedstrijd zelf rallyofthelakes punt com.
Meer dan 300 inschrijvers, 151 starten er daarvan, waarvan de complete top 20 bestaat uit WRC's en maar liefst 35 Groep N4.
Daarnaast zover mij op dit moment bekend 2 Nederlandse equipes: Henneky en Van Waardenburg/Kustermans.
Zie hieronder het complete persbericht:
Donnelly Heads Huge Lakes Entry
Reigning Tarmac Champion Eugene Donnelly will lead away the 151 starters in the 2006 Ordnance Survey Killarney International Rally of the Lakes, which takes place over the Bank Holiday weekend of April 28th – May 1st.

Details of the event, now in its 27th year were announced at a reception in the Brehon Hotel Killarney on Sunday April 9th by Minister John O’Donoghue T.D., Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism. In the Minister’s address he said “This International event has some of the most scenic rally stages in Europe such as the world-renowned Moll’s Gap, will be followed with keen interest and enthusiasm by an estimated 60,000 spectators including some 3,000 overseas visitors. Research into the economic benefits of the Rally has shown that it injects more than €20m into the local economy and as such it makes a very significant contribution to tourism in Killarney”.

Over three hundred entries were received for the Rally of the Lakes, which is a counting round of the Pirelli Tarmac Championship, The West Euro Cup and the 023 Tiles Southern Four Championship. The 2005 winners of all three championships are back in Killarney to defend their titles.

Last Years Tarmac Champion, Eugene Donnelly, who has already won the opening round in Galway, will start at No 1 in an effort to secure his second Lakes win and to extend his lead in the Tarmac series. 2005 Lakes winner Andrew Nesbitt will miss the event but we could see the Armagh driver back in action for the Shell Donegal in June. Former winner Derek McGarrity will start at No 2 in his S11 Subaru, followed by the Ford Focus WRC of Eamon Boland, a driver who invariably finishes well in Killarney. Next up is another Subaru in the hands of Tim McNulty, winner of the recent Circuit of Kerry and one of the drivers likely to make a significant impact on the Tarmac scene in the years ahead. Austin MacHale, who first won this event twenty years ago, follows at No 5, in what may well be his last appearance in Killarney, as he is reported to be contemplating retirement at the end of the season, to concentrate on the rallying careers of sons Gareth and Aaron.

Making a welcome return at No 6 is Killarney’s own Donie O’Sullivan whose past record on his home International includes a debut tarmac win for the Prodrive Gp N Impreza, 2nd overall in a Group A Subaru and an accident late in the rally, while holding 2nd overall two years ago. On all those occasions Donie was navigated by Paul Nagle, who is unavailable for the event as he will be in Rally Argentina with Gareth MacHale. Donie drives the McKinstry Motorsport Impreza used by Andrew Nesbitt on the Galway International and will have Limerick man Sean Mullally on the notes.

Peadar Hurson, who was setting some excellent stage times here last year before crashing out on the Cullen stage, is back again this year and starts at No 7 in his Subaru.

2005 Southern Four Champion, Denis Cronin who retired on the first stage of this years 023 Championship opener in West Cork, starts at No 8 and hopes to lay the foundations of a successful defence of his title. Nigel Hicklin, with Killarney man Diarmuid Falvey on notes is listed at No 9 in his Toyota Corolla WRC, while 2006 West Cork Rally winner, Melvyn Evans, in yet another Subaru Impreza WRC round off the top 10.

The top twenty consists entirely of World Rally Cars, making this one of the strongest fields ever assembled for an Irish International.

Last years Group N winner and Group N Tarmac Championship leader Colm Murphy heads the biggest class in the event, with no less than 35 of the best group N cars in the country all lined up to challenge the Limerick driver. Main threat to Murphy’s crown is expected to come from the 2005 Group N Tarmac Champion, Ballinamallard’s Garry Jennings, whose record on the Lakes has to date been unfortunate, but who will have the advantage of being partnered by the very experienced James O’Brien, twice a winner in Killarney with Andrew Nesbitt, and a man with great local knowledge of these stages. Other serious contenders for the Group N win will be Alan Ring in his new Subaru N12, Seamus Leonard (Mitsubishi Evo 9), Kevin Kelleher (Evo 9), Roy White (Evo 9), Willie Fannin (Subaru) and Killarney man Kevin O’Donoghue (Evo 9).

Guy Woodcock (Ford Escort maxi), from Flintshire in North Wales, starts his quest for a third successive West Euro Cup at No 38, with his opposition in a A7 class coming from Durham’s Geoff Wright in a Nissan Almera and a trio of Killarney drivers, David Randles (Nissan Almera), Jimmy White (Ford Focus) and Kieran Marshall (Honda Civic R).

Phil Collins, winner of the National section in the Rally of the Lakes in 2005 returns to Killarney, none the worse of a roll on the recent west Cork Rally. The Hereford driver, who has been a regular on the Rally of the Lakes since its earliest years can expect to have a battle on his hands from Tony Davies (Metro 6R4), Tom Randles (Toyota Celica ST205) and Wesley Patterson (Ford Escort).

Local crew of Todd Falvey and Dan Barry head the 30 strong Historic entries, having won last years event in their Stanley Cookers/Mulvihill Media sponsored Porsche 911. Historics will join the rally after five stages and will compete over all the remaining stages of the event.

The very successful Junior section, which was pioneered by the Killarney club to celebrate the 25th Rally of the Lakes in 2004, has attracted a full entry of 40 crews, who will compete over the final four stages of the rally. The winner of the Junior section will receive the Gerard Horgan Memorial Trophy, named in memory of the late Gerard Horgan, who was Deputy Clerk of the Course for the Rally of the Lakes for almost twenty years, before his death in late 2004. Junior sections are now a feature of most Irish Rallies but few if any have the same attraction for young drivers as the chance to compete over the most famous tarmac stages in Europe such as Molls Gap, Beallaghbeama and Caragh Lake.

Ordnance Survey Ireland continues as title sponsors of the Rally of the Lakes, making this their ninth year of association with Killarney and District Motor Clubs premier event. Additional support comes from the Gleneagle Hotel, Esso, Killarney Vintners and Traders and Failte Ireland.

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Last years Group N winner and Group N Tarmac Championship leader Colm Murphy heads the biggest class in the event, with no less than 35 of the best group N cars in the country all lined up to challenge the Limerick driver. Main threat to Murphy’s crown is expected to come from the 2005 Group N Tarmac Champion, Ballinamallard’s Garry Jennings, whose record on the



Colm afgelopen jaar in een MSP subaru N10 komt dit jaar in een 2006 N12 aan de start uit de stal van MSP waar ook de auto van Martin v iersel vandaan komt, Colm heeft vandaag de auto getest op het Topgear circuit waar MSP gebaseerd is, en is super enthousiast over de auto.
Ikzelf zal Colm de komende wedstrijden (dus ook de Lakes) begleiden.Hopelijk, kan hij de overige 34 Gr N wagens weeer achter hem laten zodat hij leider in het kampioenschap blijft

[RoMa75]

Vandaag de papieren gehad en gezien dat Van Waardenburg-Kustermans gaat vertrekken onder het nummertje 112. Valt ons hier niet tegen gezien het deelnemersveld

[Walter Geuzebroek]

Henneky zal in Ierland vertrekken met Marco SChillemans in de hotseat.

[pedduhwick]

wat is de site van de rally??

[Walter Geuzebroek]

wat is de site van de rally??

Kijk hier eens..... http://www.rallyofthelakes.com/index.php

[pedduhwick]

bedankt

[StevenK]

wat is de site van de rally??

Heb ik daar nu zo'n kalender voor gebouwd ? http://www.rallysport.nl/index.php?modu ... nder&id=23

[pedduhwick]

sorry... niet aangedacht

[StevenK]

Ik was 't al weer vergeten, maar je kunt zelfs via de zoek-functie de informatie vinden..