What a brilliant rally. We finished 1st in Group N and 4th Overall after 2 brilliant days of rallying on very fast and enjoyable stages and after some very hair-raising moments. We scored maximum Evo Challenge points on both days, so we couldn’t have asked for a better start to the Championship.

We will be heading to Clonakilty this week-end to do the West Cork Rally. This is very much a local event for me as it is less than an hour over the road, and I am looking forward to it as I didn’t get a chance to compete in any events this close to home last year.  We are doing the event as a shake-down for the first round of the BRC which will be taking place on the 28th of March.

Well, I couldn’t have asked for a better start to 2009 with a win on the Sean Conlon Memorial rally. It was my first outright win on a round of the National Forestry Championship, and I was absolutely delighted to come off that final stage to find out that I had got the win.  I had come close on a number of occasions in 2007 when I competed in the full Championship so to finally get a win in an Irish Forestry Rally was brilliant.

This past weekend saw the World Rally Championship coming to Ireland for the second time. Although I would have loved to compete on Irelands round of the WRC, the cost of doing so was prohibitive, given that I have committed myself to the BRC this year.