ANDREW NESBITT: RALLYING’S MICHAEL SCHUMACHER
Josh Moffett has been in a class of one in Ireland this season – dominating not just the National championship but also the jewel in the crown: the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship. His title triumph on last weekend’s Ulster Rally was his second in a series he has quite simply made his own this year.
Twenty years ago, the script was the same but the characters were different. Trade Josh Moffett, Andy Hayes and their Hyundai i20 R5 for Andrew Nesbitt, James O’Brien and a Subaru Impreza S6 WRC. On every rally he started, Nesbitt taunted the opposition as he made winning not just a habit but a normality.
With a record 11 Irish Tarmac wins on the bounce from the 2000 Summit to the 2002 Cork 20 where he clinched his second title, it’s little wonder he was referred to as the ‘Schumacher of Irish rallying’ with a win-to-start ratio even Michael would’ve envied in his Ferrari pomp. “I recall that, yes,” Nesbitt tells Motorsport News, totally
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