McGarrity wins Hankook Down Rally

Derek McGarrity and co-driver James McKee emerged the winners of 2012 Hankook Down Rally, round six of the Carryduff Forklift NI Rally Championship on Saturday, July 7.


McGarrity, the current leader of the NI series, nudged past 2011 Down Rally winners Donagh Kelly and Kevin Flanagan on the final 13 mile blast over the famous Hamilton’s Folly, to take victory by just 1 second.

McGarrity and Kelly, both driving Subaru Impreza’ s, had been embroiled in a tit for tat battle for the lead all day and by the halfway point Kelly held the advantage by only 0.7 seconds. Donagh pulled out the stops over the first visit to Hamilton’s Folly to stretch the lead out to 5.5 seconds and another 0.9 seconds were added to the advantage before the pivotal second run over Hamilton’s Folly.

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