Barrable to take part on more IRC rounds

Robert Barrable wants to tackle more rounds of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge this season following an impressive debut on GEKO Ypres Rally in June.

Driving a privately-entered ŠKODA Fabia Super 2000, Barrable finished the asphalt event in 10th overall alongside co-driver Damien Connolly before being promoted to ninth in the aftermath of Bryan Bouffier’s exclusion for a technical infringement.

His performance in Belgium included setting the fifth fastest time outright on the rally’s second stage despite beginning the event with a starting position of 30th.

“We’d have been happy to have finished any higher than we started,” Barrable told the British newspaper Motorsport News. “It was brilliant to have got points on an event as long as Ypres. We need to look at the car’s rebuild schedule and we will finish the British championship, but if we can fit in some more IRC events then we will.”

Barrable, from Ireland, could have finished higher up the order in Ypres had it not been for a costly spin on the rally’s third stage. He has previously revealed plans to contest RACMSA Rally of Scotland in October, the penultimate event on the 2011 IRC schedule.