Bumper entry gear up for Killarney

Over 100 crews will tackle tomorrow’s Gleneagle Hotel Killarney Historic Rally that doubles as the opening round of the 2013 Irish Tarmac Rally Championship and final round of this season’s Southern 4 Historic Rally Championship.

The entry spans across five categories — Historic, Classic, Post Historic, Modified and Juniors. Lisburn’s Wesley Patterson, in his immaculate Mk. 2 Ford Escort, a car built in accordance with the FIA Class K regulations, will be co-driven by Corkman Alan Whyte.

On their last outing together they finished sixth on the Fastnet Rally and a few weeks earlier, they topped the Historic category in the Cork 20 International Rally. Top seed Patterson also seems likely to continue to compete in the Historic section of the 2013 Tarmac series.