MOTOR SPORT:Wins don't come any closer than Subaru driver Andrew Purcell's one-second winning margin over reigning champion Stephen Moore in the recent opening round of the Hankook National Forestry Rally. Moore virtually dominated last year's forestry series and is campaigning a new Ford Focus WRC this year but has not entered Sunday's second round.

Former National Stages Champion Ray Breen opened his campaign with a third-place finish in his Focus WRC, finishing in front of Denis Cronin (Subaru) and John Reid (Toyota Corolla) followed by a quartet of Mitsubishi Group N drivers in the order of Brian Lawler, Colin Britton, Patrick Keenan and Seán Heaney.

The forests of south Tipperary are the venues for the Willie Loughman Memorial Rally, run by the Carrick-On-Suir Motor Club on Sunday. This event presents a new challenge with the first three stages run in darkness, and nine stages in total over six locations.

TOMORROW:GSMC, Sporting Trial, Aughfarrell, Brittas, Co Dublin, 11.30am; Co Cavan MC, Navigation Trial, Ballymagovern, Garadice, Co Leitrim, starts 9.0pm.

SUNDAY:Carrick-On-Suir MC, starts Carrick-On-Suir, Co Tipperary, 5.0am; Limerick MC, Autotest, Barna, Newcastle West, Co Limerick, 12.0pm.