Derry’s Kevin Lynch and his co-driver Francis Regan in their KPL backed Subaru WRC will begin today's second and final leg of the Windscreen Company Cork Forest Rally with a comfortable lead of well over a minute.

THE MOONRAKER Rally, an event steeped in tradition, marks a beginning of an era for the Munster Car Club, the rally section of the now technically disbanded Munster Motor Cycle and Car Club, one of the oldest clubs in the sport that originally catered for four different aspects of motorsport.

THE start of the Irish Tarmac Championship looms — beginning with the Galway International Rally — and Pirelli Tyres are the series sponsor.

THE new-look RT2000 car was unveiled at the Dunlop Night of Champions in Fitzpatrick’s Killiney Castle Hotel over the weekend.

THE increase in funding and the expansion of both the Young Racing and Young Rally Driver of the Year Awards is good news for motorsport.

TREVOR MOORE, in an Escort Cosworth, won the Toshiba Rally after he capitalised on the retirement of Robbie McGurk (Subaru) who set the pace through the first five stages.

Robbie McGurk, from Omagh, driving a Group N Subaru, has set a cracking pace on the Willie Loughman Forest Rally.

The Munster Maxsport Autocross Championship was won by 24-year-old Ballyvourney driver, Gerard Lucey, who finished the Cork Autocross in Grancore near Clonakilty in second place.

Finishing second in Group N and seventh in overall classification in the Tour of Flanders in Belgium, Roy White, boosted his chances in the showroom category championship.

Rockingham is the venue for the PowerTour series that includes the British F3 Championship and Formula Ford Zetec Championship.