Ireland's Keith Cronin and Mikie Galvin had a dream weekend on the Isle of Man, winning the two final rounds of the Prestone British Rally Championship to give Ballylickey driver Cronin his fourth British title
They went to the Manx event with just a slight outside chance of winning the series following a number of problems in the early part of the season which left them to mount a late challenge.
Swede Fredrik Ahlin and Torstein Eriksen from Norway topped the points table for most of the year and seemed to have the prize in the bag, only needing a second and a third place on the island to keep clear of their rivals.
However, rallying is never predictable, and transmission problems on their Skoda Fabia meant that they could only manage third place on the first of the two separate rallies, while Cronin's Ford Fiesta was the clear winner ahead of Britain's Matt Edwards in another Fiesta.
With everything to play for, the Munster pair needed to repeat their victory in the second event, with Ahlin finishing below second place, but Cronin and Galvin only held runner up position behind Edwards for most of the day.
Over the dramatic closing stages, the Irishmen finally went ahead and in an amazing finish, they took victory by a mere one tenth of a second from Edwards, with the disappointed Ahlin losing out in the title battle by only managing a repeat third place.
