Motorsport Ireland's autotest team scored their fifth victory in a row in TDC's International Trophy event at Arklow on Saturday, extending their unbeaten record in team events anywhere, which stretches from late 2003. The quartet beat old rivals Northern Ireland by 34 seconds after fifteen long tests.
Hewison champion Eddie Peterson was the individual winner, joining forces with Eamonn Byrne, Steven Bolton and David Thompson, who won the large saloon class. Former champion J J Farrell was the runner up, with NI's Robin Lyons taking a close third overall and a class win, just three tenths of a second ahead of Byrne.
TRIALS DRIVERS' CLUB INTERNATIONAL TROPHY AUTOTEST AT HOLFELD PLASTICS, ARKLOW, CO WICKLOW:
1 Republic of Ireland A
(Eddie Peterson, Eamonn Byrne, Steven Bolton, David Thompson) 3822.0s,
2 Northern Ireland A
(Robert Dickson, Robin Lyons, Trevor Ferguson, Eric Patterson) 3856.5s,
3 Munster
(Paddy Power, Richard Meeke, Peter Desmond, Liam Cashman) 4037.3,
4 Republic of Ireland B
(J J Farrell, Chris Grimes, Tom Devaney, Liam Croston) 4135.0s.
Individuals:
1 Eddie Peterson (Mini Special) 907.4s,
2 J J Farrell (Mini Special) 914.8s,
3 Robin Lyons (Mini) 923.4s,
4 Eamonn Byrne (Mini) 923.7s,
5 Robert Dickson (Mini Special) 929.5s,
6 Chris Grimes (Mini) 962.3s,
7 Paddy Power (Mini Special) 968.1s,
8 Trevor Ferguson (Striker) 971.9s,
9 Steven Bolton (Westfield) 977.5s,
10 Norman Ferguson (Mini) 983.8s,
11 Peter Desmond (Westfield) 993.0s,
12 David Thompson (Nova) 1013.4s.
Class winners:
J J Farrell, Robin Lyons, Trevor Ferguson, David Thompson.
Best reserve:
Norman Ferguson.