IDENTIFYING each other as their principal rival, Dermot Kelly and John McCarthy have justified the decision of the organisers to seed them in the top two positions for Sunday’s Mitchelstown-based Sean Conlon Memorial Tipperary Forest Rally — the second round of the KBB Doors National Forest Rally Championship.

A reversal of the top two places of the previous round, saw J.J. Farrell win the Galway Autotest at Ballinasloe where he had 1.8 seconds to spare over Saturday's Sligo winner, Eamonn Byrne.