Sixth place in the Omagh Bushwhacker Forestry Stages Rally was enough to clinch the Valvoline National Forestry Rally Championship title for Monaghan rally master Sam Moffett.

In his Fiesta WRC the result gave him his second major championship of the year and leaving him poised to make it a unique treble if he can also add the Clonakilty Blackpudding Tarmac series to his rapidly growing collection of honours.

Moffett and co-driver Stephen Thornton's most important task at the weekend was to ensure that they finished the 40 miles of stages, as they had collected enough points in the earlier rounds to leave the Clontibret man virtually home and dried, barring the unexpected, and things went according to plan for him.

During the summer, he had already tied up the Triton Showers National Championship, winning the first six rounds in a row to become unbeatable in the last two rallies, and he only needs to start the Acesigns Cork 20 International next Saturday to become the first driver ever to hold Irish rallying's three major titles at the same time.