Former Motorsport camera man for 35 years, finally retired on 7-4-2024. 'We're here for a good time, not a long time' RIP Colin McRae
Monaghan. Ireland
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Following enquiries from award winners, I've uploaded all 28 minutes of the 2022 @WCRChampionship prize giving video.
On the 2nd of April, @KerryMotorClub will kick off the 2023 championship, which marks the 30th year of continuous #TopPart sponsorship.
youtu.be/UEISfSLJOvo
Video from the recent Top Part sponsored #WestCoast #Rally Championship prize giving, where @joshmoffettcom1 & @keith_moriarty were crowned 2022 @WCRChampionship winners.
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After a short break from #rallying, I'd a great day yesterday filming the @BluebirdCare_IE sponsored #GalwaySummer #Rally, with much valued help from @GerardRooney14 @GalwayRally
Won by Gareth Machale & Brian Murphy in their #VW #Polo #R5
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#IrishMotorsport
Hey @TommyBowe
& @MuireannO_C, can you find out who in @IrelandAMVMTV doesn't support the mighty @LUFC, or should that be "Leads United"... #IrlAM
Short highlights edit of some #rally action I captured yesterday from the 2022 @CircOfMunster #LimerickRally. Won by @joshmoffettcom1 and @AHayesNav in their #R5 #Hyundia i20, counting round of the @WCRChampionship & @NRC_Stages Championships.
youtu.be/Fv9ITFkWy3o
I couldn't let today pass without remembering a dearly departed friend this morning, before we head out for the start of the 2022 @CircOfMunster Rally. This was Mickeys last rally start, in 1996.
Rest in Peace Mickey Farrell
"Simply the Best"
📸 by Adrian Crawley @ArdeeSnapper
Ten years ago today, Irish Motorsport lost a genuine rally fanatic, a big fan of Vauxhall/Opel cars, a great photographer and a really good friend to everyone he meet over many years following rallies all over Ireland.
We all miss that smile and laugh.
Rest in Peace Joe Lane...
#OnThisDay 48years ago a car bomb killed 7 innocent people in #Monaghan.Justice Henry Barrons 2003 inquiry criticised the #Garda investigation, saying investigators stopped work prematurely & the @FineGael/@labour government of the day 4 inaction & lack of interest in the bombing
Without a doubt, this #Lancia #Delta #Integrale has to be the coolest car I've seen so far at @RallyoftheLakes 😍😍😍
Forget all the #bapbap #bangbang #boyracers, this #rally #legend sitting still, complete with rare #turbofan brake cooling discs is better than anything else here
Some Irish #Motorsport #rally action captured at the 2022 @birrstagesrally
Round 2 of the @WCRChampionship, won by @joshmoffettcom1 & @keith_moriarty in their R5 #Hyundia #i20, also featuring @DesiHenry @KellyMotorsport @BoyleMotorsport @EI_ROC
youtu.be/UxuXcPkJBH4
Chicanes or "movable structures" are not popular in #rallying or any form of #motorsport, some say they're a necessary evil, which impact results, as can be seen towards the end this short video from the 2022 @MayoMotorClub #Rally, won by @joshmoffettcom1
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And, after waiting two long years for this weekend, we're all finally back for Rnd1 of the @IrishTarmacTROA #Rally Championship. Best of luck to all the volunteers in @GalwayMotorClub running the 2022 @GalwayIntRally and to all competitors, marshals and media, have a safe one
629 days since I last filmed the @MayoMotorClub #Rally back in 2020, so I guess there's no where better to get back to #Irish #motorsport than the @RallyoftheLakes #Historics
Those 25 years passed by so fast, sad that Mickey is no longer with us.
I prefer to remember the good times, the happier times, and the way he'd greet ye after a rally, "what were we like out there", always with that big smile across his face.
Like Adrian said "Simply the Best"
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Just heard the sad news
RIP Esler
He was always such a friendly man, despite being a complete stranger, he made time for me the first time I met him, once he knew you were a rally fan he'd always stop for a chat.
📷 by @PamBallantine & Molls Gap from years ago by #EslerCrawford
I was lucky enough to drive a few laps in this ex @prodrive #Subaru #Legacy #K555BAT 20 years ago at @rallyschoolirl. The late 'Possum' Bourne won the 1993 #Rally Thailand in this car & @AriVatanen drove it on the @AcropolisRally. It was rallied by Hugh Dunne in 2000..
@Jordi0028
Read this piece from 2018 on the @motorsport_ie website, when the car was up for sale, it had been restored to the 1993 #AcroplisRally #AriVatanen spec.
Wonder was it sold?
motorsport.ie/2018/01/21/ex-…
Fond #rally #memories from a different era, and that wonderful sound of the #SUBARU flat four engine.
#onthisday1996, #Motorsport in Ireland lost a true clubman & 1994 @NRC_Stages #Champion, the late "Mickey Farrell"
Some great pictures from @ArdeeSnapper
Rest in Peace Mickey
And four pics by @ArdeeSnapper of Mickey outside the #SUBARU, spraying the champagne after winning the Circuit of Munster @limerickmc #Rally and the @almcmotorclub "Boyne 800" Rally in 1994. @HughesDougie
