Keohane starts from fourth row

Cork driver, Michael Keohane, will start today’s penultimate race of the Avon Tyres British Formula 3

championship at Donington Park from the fourth row of the grid.

The race could decide the destiny of the championship with pole sitter, Robbie Kerr requiring just ten points to claim the F3 crown.

Earlier today, in qualifying for tomorrow’s final race, Keohane was out of sorts and qualified down on

the eighth row.

Frenchman, Bruce Jouanny has pole with Kerr on the third row and Courtney directly behind.

Danny Watts who finished second in the Formula Renault UK series is the champion of that category.

The race was won by Lewis Hamilton with Cork’s, Matthew Griffin, the best of the Irish in seventh place.

Meanwhile, in the San Remo Rally, Fermanagh’s, Niall McShea (Opel Corsa) is tenth in the Formula 1600 category.

Gilles Panizzi heads a Peugeot 1-2-3 in the main rally where Marcus Gronholm and Richard Burns

trail behind.

Panizzi has a lead of 36.8 seconds after 13 stages. Petter Solberg (Subaru), Markko Martin (Ford) are next on the leaderboard.

Colin McRae (Ford) is eighth.