Posted Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 9:45pm
Vermont SportsCar owner Lance Smith zipped up his jacket as the chill of the Missouri night set in. He smiled. The factory Subarus were sitting first and third, but day one at 100 Acre Wood was more about Barry McKenna.
The Irishman, back in frontline ARA action for the first time in a year, won all but one of the day’s stages aboard his Ford Fiesta WRC – only a puncture kept him off the top on Friday night.
Looking across to the Irishman’s corner of the service park, Smith grinned: “We’ve got ourselves a rally on now.”
He wasn’t wrong. He rarely is.
