Carey Motorsport: Lurgan Park Rally 2011

Rachel and I went along to the Lurgan Park Rally yesterday, it's only 2 miles up the road so it would have been rude not to really. I've been going to the rally since I was a child, my Dad would take us every year so it's almost a family tradition. As you would imagine the weather makes or breaks the event so we were lucky this year with some lovely sunshine, it's not often we got two sunny Saturdays in a row to enjoy some motorsport.

We got there on time to see the first stage which was just as well as I wanted to see Clive Latimer and Davy McElroy in action and they broke down in their Mini Clubman on the second stage. At least we got to see their only run of the day.

The highlight of the rally as far as I was concerned were the retro machines that Slowly Sideways Ireland had brought along. Beautiful looking and sounding cars, and the drivers were really going for it. I love how they all sound different, from the V6 of the 6R4, to the in-line 5 of the Audi, to the flat 6's in the Porsche's and the V8's in the TR7 and Jimmy McRae's 5.0 Firenza Can-Am, brilliant.