rally ireland comes to donegal

byte

Yeah there is a cover charge to access the Diamond (€30 AFAIK). Other spectator areas are free.

I must try find out more.

Mint Sauce

you sure, just seen this on the rally ireland site, tickets ony required for the service pary, all the other areas free

LoanShark

sorella wrote: »

Please, will there be any closures etc on the Saturday, ie the day before the rally?

Could be a very good trading day indeed?

The town itself will be closed down from about 12.p.m. on Sunday and only those who have Passes for the Diamond and the Quay Street area will be allowed access onto these areas..

The Charges for the diamond area are mainly set to to control numbers.. The diamond is open to 1,000 people only..not too sure if the quay street area is also included in that 1000 or not..So NO Pass, NO In..

I personally dont have any problem to fork out for the passes,because on other rounds of the WRC you have to pay to get a pass that allows you to access ALL the stages,Take for example Sweden they have guys with scanners at all the access points to all the stages for the rally,and unless you're a local you won't know the way to get onto the stage without following the routes.. In rally GB you can be expected to pay anything up to £100 to gain access to stages..

sorella

TY; it is Saturday I am seeking news on.

byte

LoanShark wrote: »

The town itself will be closed down from about 12.p.m. on Sunday and only those who have Passes for the Diamond and the Quay Street area will be allowed access onto these areas..

The Charges for the diamond area are mainly set to to control numbers.. The diamond is open to 1,000 people only..not too sure if the quay street area is also included in that 1000 or not..So NO Pass, NO In..

I personally dont have any problem to fork out for the passes,because on other rounds of the WRC you have to pay to get a pass that allows you to access ALL the stages,Take for example Sweden they have guys with scanners at all the access points to all the stages for the rally,and unless you're a local you won't know the way to get onto the stage without following the routes.. In rally GB you can be expected to pay anything up to £100 to gain access to stages..

Thanks for the info. I'm pondering if the ticket to the Diamond is worth it, but if only a thousand are allowed in, it mightn't be so bad. Of course, could be sold out now

LoanShark

sorella wrote: »

TY; it is Saturday I am seeking news on.

The town itself will have a bit of disruption, but it will be open..

try to get a copy of the Donegal Times, It has details in it..

sorella

Thank you; is that online?

We are the Blue Nuns who sells by the anchor opposite the Gardai Barracks; it has been so slow of late and Town should be busy...

LoanShark wrote: »

The town itself will have a bit of disruption, but it will be open..

try to get a copy of the Donegal Times, It has details in it..

byte

I don't know of any closures on Saturday, only that there must be no cars within the town after a certain time on Saturday night.

Donegal Times site is here:
http://www.donegaltimes.com/

LoanShark

sorella wrote: »

Thank you; is that online?

We are the Blue Nuns who sells by the anchor opposite the Gardai Barracks; it has been so slow of late and Town should be busy...

:rolleyes: Ha!
Hope you've carved a load of crosse to be selling at the weekend..!!

sorella

Indeed we have; been hard at work all winter.....

Woolly hats too:) All local Donegal wool of course:) Kilcarra... Hoping they will manage to stay open once more. Best wool in the world...

It will be cold out there...

And thank you all for the advice.... All being well, there we will be on Saturday...

LoanShark wrote: »

:rolleyes: Ha!
Hope you've carved a load of crosse to be selling at the weekend..!!

muffler

Well good luck to you on Sunday sorella and I hope the weather is favourable.

sorella

Ah, thank you...The forecast does not look too good, but Prayer can do great things:)


We are there each weekend when it is fine enough, and sometimes when it is not. Worked in the frost right up to Christmas, but Town was so empty.

muffler wrote: »

Well good luck to you on Sunday sorella and I hope the weather is favourable.

LoanShark

sorella wrote: »

Ah, thank you...The forecast does not look too good, but Prayer can do great things:)


We are there each weekend when it is fine enough, and sometimes when it is not. Worked in the frost right up to Christmas, but Town was so empty.

Well, Your Prayers worked!!!! great day. And the weather was fab!

byte

LoanShark wrote: »

Well, Your Prayers worked!!!! great day. And the weather was fab!

Yeah, it was cool but at least it was dry! That said, I was glad to get home after standing on the Diamond so long!

sorella

Well, no.

It was the Saturday we needed to be out selling.. When it deluged aaaaaaaaaall day long:)

Would not have been able to get into Town on the day itself.

Sigh; glad you had a good day anyways...

LoanShark wrote: »

Well, Your Prayers worked!!!! great day. And the weather was fab!

jimmmy

The forecast does not look too good, but Prayer can do great things

sorella wrote: »

It was the Saturday we needed to be out selling.. When it deluged aaaaaaaaaall day long:)

Prayer did not do great things for Saturdays weather so !


There was great driving on Sunday in the town.....really interesting to see the huge difference in standard between the best ( eg the top international drivers ) and the not so good ( eg I will not name her, but she drove a totally different line around the corners in her Civic....no wonder she was so much slower )

sorella

Interesting; I was in Town y'day and all the traders said it was dead on the Saturday, and that businesses did not do well anyways. So it would have been a wasted effort had we gone out..:)

Prayer is interesting:)


Prayer did not do great things for Saturdays weather so !


There was great driving on Sunday in the town.....really interesting to see the huge difference in standard between the best ( eg the top international drivers ) and the not so good ( eg I will not name her, but she drove a totally different line around the corners in her Civic....no wonder she was so much slower )[/quote]

ednwireland

jimmmy wrote: »

There was great driving on Sunday in the town.....really interesting to see the huge difference in standard between the best ( eg the top international drivers ) and the not so good ( eg I will not name her, but she drove a totally different line around the corners in her Civic....no wonder she was so much slower )

pretty unfair pretty much the same line as everyone else there, you cant compare 4 wheel drive WRC cars to a 2 wheel drive civic with maybe a third of the horsepower

ie

henin solberg power sliding out of the corner (cant do that in the civic)


or loeb (missed him at the same point)

jimmmy

see her a few hundred yards before the finish for example ? She did not go to or use the side of the road properly before taking the corner. Anyone who has done even a bit of go karting would have noticed the difference. How much / by how long was she slower than the top cars ? 15% ? Ah sure fair dues for having a go anyway. I appreciate the fact the top cars are probably that little bit faster.

LoanShark

EDNWIRELAND Great Pics.. You'd give Matt a run for his money!! :rolleyes:(actually,No one can do it like him!! I was watching him at the start line with his lens stuck into the civic driver!) Do you have a scarf and a Striped Jacket?:D

ednwireland

fraid not (no scarf and striped jacket) just hanging out of the office window had to do some cropping but the 120 euro fuji is doing pretty well considering, although got pretty wet on friday.
heres chris atkinson on glenboy


and try a video of mcnulty on glenboy for size as well

have some hirvonen whilst i'm at it

LoanShark

Some of my pics..

ednwireland

nice photos loanshark

byte

For a 120eur Fuji, they're damn good pics!

My pics fared out not great from the Diamond, mistiming when to click the shutter!

This is one of very few images I got middling (Note this image is uncropped, not resized and weighing a hefty 4.6MB, so dialup users beware!)