Rally Ireland Entry

[bf1_IRL]

Out tomorrow morning, expect a record amount of WRCs

[Jaanus]

Latest news is that Kris Meeke will drive Impreza S12 and Eugene Donnelly Impreza S11.

[Langdale Forest]

The entry list should have lots of WRC cars!

[ste898]

This will be a awesome entry....because Ire;and is now the only place to have proper championship as all others have ben ruined vy yawnnn group n

[Tomi]

How come if Ireland has the only proper championship, why has they not a single one international level driver?

[ste898]

Because of the stupid way the WRC is run now where most seats are pay as you go!!!

[SubaruNorway]

I tought the Irish had a lot of money. Norway's pretty god, at least 3
S10's, 07 Focus and several others yet to be confirmed for next year. Hope the group N cars will ditch the restrictors soon, like in open class in
Rally America

http://www.youtube.com/user/RallyAmericaSeries

[Tomi]

Because of the stupid way the WRC is run now where most seats are pay as you go!!!

Ahaa ok, i tought the guys had their own WRC cars.

[Tom206wrc]

Out tomorrow morning, expect a record amount of WRCs

Tons of Subarus and Fords I guess :

[bf1_IRL]

@ Tom206wrc.. There is a 206 WRC over here (as you probably know) and whispers about the Xsara that Dani Sordo used for Cork may have had been sold to stay here..

Tomi maybe your question is for another thread as that issue can be a can of worms...but the short answer is : Shaun Gallagher won the FiA Rookie award this year, Niall McShea won the PWRC back in 04.. and Kris Meeke hopefully will do well on RI.. Maybe not the answer you are looking for but thats the current situation.. no doubt about it the ITC is one of the most exciting championships (well at the fully supported events anyway..)

As for the lads in WRCs over here they mostly do it for fun and we have some 'ameteur professionals' (and I do not mean to offend anyone with that remark)
For example Eugene Donnelly was able to have a fight with Marcus in Galway when Marcus had no experience of those conditions and Mark Higgins led overnight in Donegal when Seb & the Citroen Team had no experience of the conditions that he experienced, but in Cork when they came back they ran away with it..but RI will be interesting no doubt because those stages will be also very different to what has come up so far....
(To the best of my knowledge anyway..)


As for this island producing a WRC star driver, that probably is for another thread another day..