Kerry has been given advance notice of our arrival, but the first few of us have beaten the target arrival time by quite a few minutes – something that would lead to road penalties on a competitive rally – and the station is only just opening up. Obviously the only way I can avoid a similar fate is to keep the Rallye at the limit and try pull away from the vastly-quicker Hyundai.īehind me are 30 or so homologation specials and rally-inspired road cars, all flashing through the gloomy pre-dawn in a comet of light, noise and fumes. A friend followed behind in his road car in order to illuminate things ahead to some degree, but come the first corner the Anglia was ditched as the shadows became disorienting. The story goes that Austin McHale, prior to his first rally, went testing down a backroad at night in his Ford Anglia, which was unfortunately devoid of any usable lighting. Even the lenses of my spectacles are beaming reflected light back into my eyes, making the small patch of dimly-lit tarmac within the beam of the 106’s puny candles difficult to read.
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An old story about one of Ireland’s most successful rally drivers resurrects itself from some deep place in my brain as the awesome headlights from a Hyundai i30 N fill the mirrors of the Peugeot 106 Rallye I’m driving, and even some of the road ahead.
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