Only days after returning from Sweden, where Craig qualified for the Pirelli Star Driver Global Shootout he is now set to take part in the ToddsLeap.com Ulster Rally next weekend. The Kilmurry native returns to Antrim with great memories from twelve months ago where he clenched both the UK and Irish Fiesta Sport Trophy Championships. Craig states “Securing both championships on the Ulster last year was one of the highlights of a great year.”
This year’s event forms the penultimate round in both the MSA Dulux Trade British Rally Championship and the Citroën Irish Rally Championship. Craig suffered misfortune on his last outing in the ITC on the Donegal International, when a puncture attributed to a heavy crash. His Kick Energy Ford Fiesta S2000 sustained alot of damage and as a consequence Craig did not take part in round five of the British Rally Championship, the Isle of Man International Rally.
Craig, “The accident in Donegal knocked my confidence but since then I’ve recorded my best World Rally result in Finland, I got the news that I was nominated by Motorsport Ireland to take part in the North European Pirelli Shootout in Sweden and last weekend on that event I qualified for the Global Shootout later this year. I’m on a high and am looking forward to driving the S2000 on the stages near Lough Neagh.”
– Credit: www.rallyprint.com.