West Cork Rally 2011

Motorsport Photographer Sligo In the closest of close finishes Robert Barrable and his co driver Damien Connelly have scored a great victory here in West Cork. Their Skoda S2000 finished just over a second in front of Daragh O’Riordan/Tony McDaid in their Subaru WRC. The HQ for the Rally was the Quality Hotel in Clonakilty.  Barrable seemed to be slow through the penultimate stage when he caught up with Colm Murphy. This allowed O’Riordan to close to within 0.9 of a second that meant that it was all down to the spectator stage which was run through the streets of Clonakilty. Barrable gave it one last push to set the fastest time and win the rally. His actual stage time was just over a second up on O’Riordan. It was a very tight finish and after 2 days of high speed action through the roads of West Cork only 1.3 seconds separated the top 2. Colm Murphy and his co driver Don Montgomery who led for most of the rally had to be content with 3rd place. Just a few Images below from the event starting with Barrable and Connelly.