Keith Power the master at Mondello Park
Driving the car owned by his father, Eddie — it won last year in the hands of Liam Ryan — he finished 21.44 seconds ahead of the Group N Mitsubishi of Dubliner, Neill Tohill, with Kildare’s Jack Newman, in his Mk. 2 Ford Escort, taking third — 2.25 seconds further behind.
In slippery conditions, Power set the initial pace with a 3.37-second lead over the Mitsubishi of Liam Ryan. Ryan’s fellow Tipperary driver, Pat O’Connell, in a similar Mitsubishi, was third, six seconds off the lead. Newman, Tohill, and Craig Breen, in the James Coleman-owned Escort, completed the top six.
