KELLY HELPS MOHAN TO THE VERY TOP
In the Junior BRC – the competition for frontwheel-drive Rally4 cars – it was to be plain sailing for the Irish crew of Eamonn Kelly and Conor Mohan.
Kelly had already netted the drivers’ title on Rali Ceredigion and came to Yorkshire to deliver the co-driver title for navigator Mohan.
Mohan from Monaghan watched his driver seal his championship last time out, due to the fact Kelly played his points earning Joker Card earlier in the season that is only available to drivers.
Mohan had two days and six stages to bide his time and keep his driver on the straight and narrow to produce the Junior BRC double inside the Ford Fiesta Rally4. Kelly and Mohan delivered a fine performance in the forests of Yorkshire. They only needed a handful of points, but the win sealed it in impressive style.
The Trackrod win backed up a stellar year for the duo, who also took wins on Rali Ceredigion, Grampian and
Jim Clark rallies.
Their prize is a funded drive on a European round of the World Rally Championship in 2023 at the wheel of a Hyundai i20 Rally2.
Elsewhere in the Junior BRC, Johnnie Mulholland and Eoin Treacy struggled to keep on the coattails of their fellow countrymen on the gravel, but they bolstered their chance of securing runner-up spot in the junior formula by taking second in their Ford Fiesta Rally4. Welshman
Ioan Lloyd recorded a breakthrough podium on home soil last time out and came to the gravel in high spirits in his Peugeot 208 Rally4. With Sion Williams sat alongside, the pair made a good start in the darkness of Dalby, but on the first test of the second day, they were parked up on the roadside with driveshaft woes – instantly retiring them from the event.