Irish star achieves objective in Sweden.

Irish rally star, Shaun Gallagher, competed in the
second round of the World Rally Championship, the
Swedish Rally (6th -- 8th Feb), and achieved his
objective by finishing the event and gaining the
valuable experience needed to further his rallying
career.

The rally was run in poor conditions with very little
snow due the unusually warm weather prior to the
event. The opening days stages were a mixture of snow,
ice and gravel, with the roads getting more and more
cut up as the rally cars passed through. Shaun drove
through the stages, testing different settings and
ensuring he made it to the end of each stage.

The conditions improved on Saturday and with that the
Brendan Kelly backed crew began to make up time,
moving up two or three positions each stage and by
stage 11 they were lying 41st overall. However on
stage 12 the Davy Greer run Evo VII slid wide on a
corner and subsequently got stuck in a snow bank for
over 15 minutes.

The Irish driver did not let this off affect the
objective of the weekend and during leg 3, Shaun
tested many different brake, differential and
suspension settings, learning more and more on each
stage. As he became more experienced Shaun began to
set times inside the top 25 and moved further and
further back up the leader board.

The Mullen Express Transport team finished the event
29th in Group N and 44th overall.

"We achieved exactly what we wanted from the event"
commented Shaun. "I finished the event and have
learned so much, it's a great start to the year"

-sgr-


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