Josh Moffett recorded his third straight win in the Triton Showers Motorsport Ireland National Rally championship by taking by a start-to-finish victory in the Waterford City Ford Raven’s Rock Rally on Sunday.
Armed on this occasion with his brother Sam’s upgraded version of the Hyundai i20 Rally2, the Monaghan driver’s win was never in doubt.
He and his co-driver Keith Moriarty arrived back to finish ramp at the Viking Hotel with a 42.4-second advantage over Declan Boyle and stand-in co-driver Paddy McCrudden.
The Triton Showers National Rally Championship has now reached its halfway point and Moffett has won three of the four rounds run so far.
Round one winners Callum Devine and Noel O’Sullivan are expected to return to the championship fray for round five, the Connacht Sligo Stages on July 16 after skipping Waterford.
English visitors James Ford and Neil Shanks usually ply their trade in the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship but entered the Carrick-on-Suir Motor Club-organised event to test a new Citroen C3 ahead of the Cork ’20’ and the Ulster Rally later in the summer.
Their efforts paid dividends and recorded their best Irish rally result to date, a third place finish for the pair.
The top three Modified crews were not registered for the championship so national honours and top points in the Ford Escort Challenge went to Chris Armstrong and Darren Curran.
Welsh visitors Wayne Evans and Martin Henry won the historic section with Jack McKenna and Damian Doherty taking their fourth maximum point haul from four starts in the Triton Showers National Junior Rally Championship.
They finished nearly a minute clear of the similar Honda Civic of Mikey Ryan and Eoghan Doherty.
