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pic: Stuart Biggerstaff & Kenny Hull - Subaru Impreza S9
WRC
Photographer: James Jess/JAMES JESS PHOTOGRAPHY
For immediate release: 01 March 2010
Dromara's
21-year-old Stuart Biggerstaff claims
second overall at Kirkistown!
Stuart
Biggerstaff, Dromara's latest rally success story, continued
to startle at last Saturday's opening round of the Hankook MSA
Northern Ireland Rally Championship.
Number two is quickly becoming the 21-year-old driver's lucky
number, as he secured second overall for the second time in
what was the Dromara driver's second rally!
The Pedro Pet Foods Stage Rally attracted many of Northern Ireland's
leading rally talent, including a number of former champions.
But Biggerstaff, along with navigator Kenny Hull, was once again
unfazed by the opposition.
Just a few weeks earlier, Biggerstaff had secured second overall
at the same venue on his debut stage rally. One month further
down the line, the newcomer grasped another podium finish, sealing
a perfect rally debut.
"It was quite slippery at the start," Biggerstaff
admitted. "But it dried out after the third stage. I didn't
look at the stage times all day so I didn't know where we'd
finished until after the final stage."
Young Biggerstaff used the opening stage to bed himself in,
and then he really got into the groove. Sixth overall after
stage one, he fought his way through the order and into the
top three despite some gearbox issues.
"The gearbox was playing about a bit," Biggerstaff
explained. "It kept missing gears so I had to drive around
the issue."
Despite those niggling gearbox problems, Biggerstaff held third
overall after stage four. It looked as though he had secured
another top three finish, but the final stage saw the Dromara
driver go one better as he moved into second overall ahead of
George Robinson.
"To be honest, only for George having his mechanical problems
on the final stage, we would have been third," Biggerstaff
admitted. "But to finish second again is fantastic, particularly
as Saturday's rally was a round of the Hankook Northern Ireland
Rally Championship."
The Northern Ireland series features 10 events which take competitors
across the country. Round two takes place on Saturday 13 March
at Bishopscourt Race Circuit, near Downpatrick, where Stuart
will continue his charge for Championship success.
ENDS.
Photograph: Attached photograph depicts Stuart Biggerstaff
and Kenny Hull in their Subaru Impreza WRC during the 2010 Pedro
Pet Foods Stage Rally. Image may be used free of charge for
editorial use with credit to the photographer, James Jess/JAMES
JESS PHOTOGRAPHY. Image may not be sold, resold or used for
commercial purposes. Copyright remains with the photographer.
Regards,
Jonathan MacDonald
MediaJAM Communications
