Lampeter's Meirion Evans aims for top spot at Donegal Rally
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This will be Meirion's fifth Donegal Rally start and he arrives in Letterkenny in tremendous form, having finished second on the recent Rally of the Lakes and was awarded the win on the Jim Clark Rally, having led the event at the time it was stopped at just over half distance.
