Northern Irish ace Ryan Barrett is the latest front-runner to commit to the West Wales Rally Spares R.A.C. Rally Championship with an entry for the Rally Marketing Mid Wales Stages (Sunday 3 March).Omagh-based Barrett and co-driver Barry Ferris will join fellow Northern Irishman Marty McCormack near the front of the fantastically competitive entry and hopes to do more rounds after doing very little rallying across the last two seasons.In 2010, Barrett won the BHRC-counting Isle of Man Historic Rally and finished second on the Severn Valley Stages, but was then hit by disaster when his car was badly damaged by fire when being run on the road ahead of the start of the 2011 season. His luck didnt improve when he went out of his home event, the 2011 Ulster Rally, with gearbox failure on the opening stage.Now Barrett will return to the Welsh gravel stages this weekend to contest the opening round of the R.A.C. Championship in his Ford Escort Mk2 and he says the quality of the entry is incredible. The entry is unreal, said Barrett. Ive just been reading about the Pikes Peak stage in Motorsport News! Were doing 00 on a local event on Saturday just to get back into it, said Barrett.The stages in Mid Wales are all relatively new to him, as Barrett has only competed on the Mid Wales once before in 2009, which ended with a broken halfshaft.