At the end of the opening leg, Mark Higgins, driving a Skoda Octavia WRC leads the Gibbs Aquada Manx International Rally, a counting round of both the Irish and British Pirelli sponsored rally championships.

Andrew Nesbitt today stretched his lead in the Jim Clark Rally in Scotland.

Ireland’s Austin MacHale and Brian Murphy (Subaru WRC) are fifth at the end of the first leg of the