Daniel Cronin keen to salvage season at local Fastnet Rally in Bantry

Ballylickey's Daniel Cronin (Citroen C3 Rally2) heads the local challenge in the Westlodge Hotel Fastnet Rally, the concluding round of both the Triton Showers National Rally Championship and the Top Part West Coast Rally Championship. Picture: Martin Walsh.

By his own standards, Daniel Cronin hasn't enjoyed the best of seasons. However, as another Triton Showers National Rally Championship campaign concludes on Sunday with the Bantry-based Westlodge Hotel Fastnet Rally, it offers the Ballylickey native some chance of redemption in what is his final rally of the year. 

A regular top-three finisher in the national series over the past few years, Cronin's best result in the current campaign was sixth across the county bounds on the Circuit of Kerry at the end of March. Third overall in last month's non-championship Wexford Rally was a confidence builder but a second stage accident on the more recent Cork '20' Rally was a denial of more seat time rather than a setback.