Breen moves closer to World Rally Title
Waterford’s Craig Breen continued to move closer to a World Rally Championship Academy title after a near perfect day today on Day Two at Rally Great Britain. The 21-year-old won 7 of today’s 8 stages in Wales in the World Rally Championship Academy, meaning he picks up 7 points to add to his tally of 2 he won yesterday. Breen has now won 9 of the 11 stages over the first two days of action.
The young driver held an overnight lead of 26.8 seconds over Alistair Fisher with Breen’s title rival, Estonian, Egon Kaur further back in third place. Breen started where he left off yesterday as he finished joint fastest on the first stage with Fisher but over the following three stages he pulled away from his rivals, winning each stage and establishing a 46 second lead over Fisher with Kaur 1 minute and 42 seconds behind.
The second loop of stages today exemplified the sort of class that Breen is showing this weekend as he was fastest on three of the four stages this afternoon with neither Fisher or Kaur able to get close to him. The only driver that was faster was Molly Taylor who finished 7 seconds ahead of Breen on the last stage of the day. The former Motorsport Ireland Young Driver of the Year is now 4 minutes and 5 seconds ahead of Kaur in second with Fisher back in third, 4 minutes and 38 seconds behind the leader.
If the positions stay like this tomorrow then Breen will have to win five of the remaining six stages to take the World Rally Championship Academy title and the €500,000 winners cheque having gone into the event 20 points behind Kaur.
The final 6 stages of the event for the World Rally Championship Academy take place tomorrow with the first stage starting at 9:30am. For more information log on to www.wrc.com/wrc-academy or www.craigbreen.com
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