Waterford's Craig Breen continued to move closer to a World Rally Championship Academy title after a perfect day today on Day Two at Rally Great Britain.
The 21-year-old won all 8 of Friday's stages in Wales in the World Rally Championship Academy, with his clean sweep meaning he picks up 8 points to add to his tally of 2 he won yesterday.
Breen has now won 10 of the 11 stages over the first two days of action.
The young driver held an overnight lead of 26.8 seconds over Alistair Fisher with Breen’s title rival, Estonian, Egon Kaur further back in third place.
Breen started where he left off yesterday as he finished joint fastest on the first stage with Fisher but over the following three stages he pulled away from his rivals, winning each stage and establishing a 46 second lead over Fisher with Kaur 1:42 behind.
The second loop of stages today exemplified the sort of class that Breen is showing this weekend as he was fastest on all four stages this afternoon with neither Fisher or Kaur able to get close to him.
The former Motorsport Ireland Young Driver of the Year is now 4:05 ahead of Kaur in second with Fisher back in third, 4:38 behind the leader.
If the positions stay like this tomorrow then Breen will have to win four of the remaining six stages to take the World Rally Championship Academy title and the €500,000 winners cheque having gone into the event 20 points behind Kaur.
The final 6 stages of the event take place tomorrow with the first stage starting at 9:30am.
