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Posts tagged with "WRC"

Rally Ireland

Saturday, 17. November 2007, 00:44:35

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Even though I was supposed to be hard at work over the last couple of days, while Ben and Toby managed to see the Geevagh stages I did manage to find the time get a few shots of the cars in the service park on Thursday morning, and again as they were driving between stages this morning. I uploaded a selection to my albums here

Unfortunately Marcus Gronholm came a cropper this morning on our difficult roads - I manage not to crash every day on the same roads in my C4, does that make me world champion? p: Anyway, things are looking good for the Citroen boys, or are they? with two more days to go and worse weather promised nothing is certain.

There has been such a great buzz in the air the last few days, people here are really having a good craic getting into the spirit of the rally. There are a lot of extra people around, and a lot of other events going on in conjunction with the Rally. Friday evening we went to the town of Boyle for a mini festival with vintage cars, a crafts fair and lots of yummy food. Tomorrow evening we are going to head into Sligo town for the French market, parade and fireworks. I do hope the rain holds off for the fireworks! I am also looking forward to the cliff-top final stage on Sunday. That could prove fun on the slippery roads, and it is going to be televised live :yes:


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Rally Fever

Tuesday, 13. November 2007, 00:15:00

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I must admit that over the years I have only had a passing interest in rally cars. I have occasionally played rally car games on my home network with my kids, and turned up at a local rally of Ireland event once. But I am starting to get a little excited by the buzz and the build up to the biggest world sporting event ever to take place in my part of the world. The World Rally Championship (WRC) is holding a stage in Ireland for the first time ever, and what is more, it is taking place on my backdoor from the 15th to the 18th of November.


Hey look, there's a girly girl! And my car in the background... ok, although mine is a C4 that is where the similarity ends.

Anyhow, stage 2 (and 5, they run through that stage twice on Friday morning), passes within a couple of miles of my house, as you can see on the map here. Hopefully I can get into the service park sometime over the next couple of days to see the cars and teams at work, they have taken over the car parks of the local institute of technology for this and have made the poor students take shanks' pony :D

Any Opera fans coming to watch? Let me know and maybe we can link up! Anyone watching on TV, I'll wave if I see a camera and you can say if you see me p:

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