Picture shows the Reid Motorsport Subaru S12 Rally Car on Atlantic Drive Rally stage at Downings, Co. Donegal with, from left:
Danny Gormley, Clerk of the Course Shell Donegal International Rally.David Coulthard, Red Bull Racing Formula 1 Grand Prix driver.Damian Crawford, Chairman Donegal Motor Club.Liam Reid, Managing Director, Reid Transport Ltd Ballymena.Eugene Donnelly, Irish Tarmac Rally Champion 2006.
FLYING SCOT MAKES FLYING VISIT TO FAMOUS DRIVE
Thursday, 07 June 2007
F1 superstar driver David Coulthard, lead driver in the Red Bull Racing Formula One racing team, paid a flying visit to Donegal last weekend. The multiple Grand Prix winner stopped off en route to the Canadian Grand Prix to meet with the Reid Motorsport Rally team and multiple Donegal Rally winner Eugene Donnelly.
Coulthard was also keen to view the famous Atlantic Drive rally stage, which skirts the northern coast of Donegal in a spectacular series of natural twists and turns that have tested the worlds best rally drivers for over 30 years.Having heard so much about it, he was suitably impressed.
As one onlooker put it “He should be – if you go off the road here the next stop IS Canada”. The Shell Donegal Rally will once again use “the Drive” as its finale on Sunday 17th June, where setting fastest time is a special prize between the competitors.Coulthard also met the Donegal Rally organisers, who briefed him on the event and congratulated him on his strong GP drives this season.
Eugene Donnelly and Liam Reid gave him a rundown on the technology of the rally car, and in no time at all the two drivers were under the bonnet - pointing, asking, explaining – just like two drivers anywhere looking over a new car.
Except these are more than just two drivers. One a multiple Grand Prix winner; the other a multiple International Rally winner. Revered in their respective fields and linked in the common quest to be the fastest. And drawn together on the Atlantic drive in the run up to the Donegal Rally. With triple World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb heading the entry for the start on June 15th next, it’s already a month to remember in Donegal.
Source Donegal Motor Club www.donegalinternationalrally.com
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