Little brother Enda, ( Seat Ibiza 1.8t, the old 1) can run with any good Sti with a good driver, and his best lap's are high 1:08's. It take's a lot of work to get into the 1:05's, and every tenth after that is bloody hard found.
Philip, Brian and Martin Tracey and the rest, get out of there cars after 10 to 12 laps, and are sweaty and out of breath for a few minutes, it's not as easy as it looks. R888's are the weapon of choice as tyres go in Time Attack, both here and the UK, but Mondello, at this pace is very difficult and hard on driver's, car's and tyre's, that we find they have to come off the pace for a few laps and let them cool, and push again. There's no big straigh to let the tyres rest. When Brian wanted to do a round late last year we could only get a set of medium compound tarmac rally tyres at the minute. He destroyed them in 12 laps. They were buckled internally, egdes of them were splitting.
John