BORDERCHAMP

Local Heroes Claim HASS Drive of the Day on Monaghan Stages Rally

David Smith and Austin Hamill from Monaghan have become the latest winners of the HASS Border Championship Drive of the Day Award. The Peugeot 106 claimed the award by taking fastest time for a class 6 crew on stage 3 of their home event, the Hillgrove Hotel Monaghan Stages.
Originally special stage 2 had been selected as the stage on which the HASS Drive of the Day award would be decided, but following the cancellation of that stage before all cars had run, it was decided that the following test would determine what crew would collect the award. A time of 9 minutes and 13 seconds by Smith and Hamill was three seconds faster than the next fastest class 6 car of Josh Moffett and Damien McPhillips; these two crews well ahead of the rest of the field. All that was needed then was to bring the car back to the finish ramp safely, whereupon Smith and Hamill were presented with their awards by Ken Henderson of Border Championship sponsors Henderson Auto Sport & Spares (HASS).
The Drive of the Day Award is presented at each of the six rounds of the 2010 HASS Border Rally Championship. Open to all registered championship competitors, a class and stage are selected at random before the start of the rally, with the winner being the fastest crew in the class on that stage to finish the rally. If the preselected stage is cancelled, the organizers can use their discretion to move either to the previous or following stages.