MOTORSPORT

FORMER double National Rally champion Declan Boyle took a comfortable victory in the opening round of this year’s Triton Showers series by bringing his Ford Fiesta home 37 seconds clear of the nearest opposition in the Achill Island Hotel-Connacht Print and Signs Mayo Stages Rally yesterday.

The Donegal driver and his new Monaghan partner James O’Reilly led from the opening stage. Adrian Wray won the Group N Production class, with Jason Black and Jack McKenna the Junior winners.

Guy Foster scored a convincing win in TDC’s Clubman Autotest at Mondello Park, setting best times on nine of the 10 tests, ahead of Darren Quille by six seconds, with Cork’s Liam Cashman the best saloon driver in third place overall.