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Fri 05 May 2007Barrable chases unique doubleMOTOR SPORT: Michael Barrable aims to move up several places on the Dunlop National Rally Championship scoreboard as he mounts a serious challenge to win the title he lost to Richard Smyth on the final round back in 1990.The Dublin driver won the Dunlop Sexton Trophy in 1995 and to add the rally championship to his motor racing title would be a unique double. He missed the two opening rounds of the current series, but after winning the non-championship West Cork Rally, he then won round three in Monaghan in his now fully sorted Ford Focus WRC.