Cronin will play percentage game in bid to retain title

BRITISH RALLY champion, Keith Cronin is not that accustomed to playing the percentage game, mostly because the Cork driver hasn’t been required to adopt such a role.

Beginning this evening at the International Rally Yorkshire in Scarborough, the final round of the Dulux Trade series, it is exactly the strategy Cronin is planning as he bids to secure back-to-back titles.

A year ago he created history by becoming the first Irish driver to win the series since Billy Coleman in 1974. Now, he is on the brink of another success as he aims to continue a remarkable sequence that has seen Mark Higgins and Guy Wilks win respective doubles in 2005/2006 and 2007/2008.