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Cannonball Ireland

  • 11-09-2009 8:47am
    #1
    RobAMerc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭


    Saw it round the corner from work.

    Some very nice motors there.

    Funniest thing I saw was a guy in a Sl55 who tried to copy the others and light up the rears as he left.
    Tool ended up pushing the locked up fronts along but still couldn't get the rears to break traction.

    Eh turn off the traction control you muppet !


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  • #2
    stealthyspeeder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,663 ✭✭✭stealthyspeeder


    Where do you work and where are they heading?


  • #3
    RobAMerc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    they have left Merrion Sq, Dublin 2
    Not sure where they are off to, but you'll hear about it I'm sure


  • #4
    stealthyspeeder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,663 ✭✭✭stealthyspeeder


    RobAMerc wrote: »
    they have left Merrion Sq, Dublin 2
    Not sure where they are off to, but you'll hear about it I'm sure

    If anyone hears them, post where you are! if they are going up past north dublin, Im leaving work!


  • #5
    RobAMerc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    The gumball rally was starting outside my office this morning.
    Some nice cars there - 3 or 4 599gtbs loads of 911's some nice older Ferrari's

    They all lighted up as they accelerated to the start line, but the one which impressed me most was the Nissan Skyline - that thing just hunkered down and exploded away - no fuss, no TC, no rev limiter being hit, to tyre scrabble nothing and it looked like it was moving fast from the go - very impressive !

    I'd still prefer the hysteria that is a Ferrari though!


  • #6
    patrickc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,972 ✭✭✭patrickc


    AFAIK it was in the sunday papers last week, think they're heading to Galway and back.


    edit to Galway

    heres a link,

    http://www.irishbusinesswomen.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=13971


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  • #7
    maxwell smart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,940 ✭✭✭maxwell smart


    Just saw them going through Newlands Cross down the N7......looked great!


  • #8
    no1beemerfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭no1beemerfan


    http://www.cannonball.ie/home.html

    Official site on the event. Some smashing and rare cars in it. I was meant to take part with a friend in his Lotus Esprit but my girlfriend's mother died so can't take part.


  • #9
    CountingCrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭CountingCrows


    no1beemerfan wrote: »
    I was meant to take part with a friend in his Lotus Esprit but my girlfriend's mother died so can't take part.

    She got you one last time eh :p


  • #10
    bostoncommon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 317 ✭✭bostoncommon


    The Girls in the red Mini look like they are going to have a good weekend


  • #11
    TomMc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭TomMc


    Saw this on another forum.

    http://bmw-planet.com/galleries/main.php?g2_itemId=4465


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  • #12
    no1beemerfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭no1beemerfan


    CountingCrows wrote: »
    She got you one last time eh :p

    Good one!! :D


  • #13
    bostoncommon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 317 ✭✭bostoncommon


    more


  • #14
    bostoncommon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 317 ✭✭bostoncommon


    naas


  • #15
    RobAMerc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    I have to say the blonde driving the 575m is almost my ultimate woman.


  • #16
    bostoncommon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 317 ✭✭bostoncommon


    RobAMerc wrote: »
    I have to say the blonde driving the 575m is almost my ultimate woman.
    You should see the two girls in the Red Cooper S


  • #17
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    bostoncommon wrote: »
    You should see the two girls in the Red Cooper S
    pics please!


  • #18
    bostoncommon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 317 ✭✭bostoncommon


    They were stopped at the lights and full of chat.. I didnt get a photo.

    I am sure someone else knows them?


  • #19
    HashSlinging
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭HashSlinging


    bostoncommon wrote: »
    They were stopped at the lights and full of chat.. I didnt get a photo.

    I am sure someone else knows them?

    Pics or GTFO - ;)


  • #20
    su_dios
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭su_dios


    When will this be in Cork does anyone know? Heading down there today.


  • #21
    Cerbera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭Cerbera


    Lunch is planned for Kinsale today.


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  • #22
    De Hipster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭De Hipster


    Cerbera wrote: »
    Lunch is planned for Kinsale today.

    Either it's a late lunch or it could be behind bars for the speed they'll need to make it! ;)


  • #23
    Hooch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭Hooch


    De Hipster wrote: »
    Either it's a late lunch or it could be behind bars for the speed they'll need to make it! ;)

    Ya I thought they were leaving at 1 from dublin:confused::confused:


  • #24
    hi5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,107 ✭✭✭hi5


    Listen in on the Mooney Show today for details,Brenda Donohoe and one of the RTE weather girls are driving a Audi TT RS ,supposed to be Veyron from Dubai there too.


    http://www.cannonball.ie/home.html


  • #25
    DJ Hafez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 948 ✭✭✭DJ Hafez


    Hope there's parking down in Kinsale to go see the cars! Where are they going to park i wonder? Actons?


  • #26
    bostoncommon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 317 ✭✭bostoncommon


    trying to upload new photos


  • #27
    bostoncommon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 317 ✭✭bostoncommon


    HashSlinging wrote: »
    Pics or GTFO - ;)

    got a photo of the mini


  • #28
    no1beemerfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭no1beemerfan


    bostoncommon wrote: »
    got a photo of the mini

    Don't keep it for yourself......post it. NOW!!


  • #29
    bostoncommon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 317 ✭✭bostoncommon


    need help from nokia expert


  • #30
    Cerbera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭Cerbera


    Cerbera wrote: »
    Lunch is planned for Kinsale today.
    De Hipster wrote: »
    Either it's a late lunch or it could be behind bars for the speed they'll need to make it! ;)
    nice guy always wrote: »
    Ya I thought they were leaving at 1 from dublin:confused::confused:

    Hey, I just read it from the schedule.

    I didn't think it was realistic eithere when I got it.


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  • #31
    De Hipster
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    Cerbera wrote: »
    Hey, I just read it from the schedule.

    I didn't think it was realistic eithere when I got it.

    Far as I know they left Barrettstown just over an hour ago.


  • #32
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    bostoncommon wrote: »
    need help from nokia expert
    email it to yourself from your phone, then post it. Better be good! :D


  • #33
    Biro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,091 ✭✭✭Biro


    http://bmw-planet.com/galleries/main.php?g2_itemId=4579
    What's that middle one? Looks like a poor "replica"


  • #34
    DJ Hafez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 948 ✭✭✭DJ Hafez


    Heading down to Kinsale now in a minute. Will hopefully report back with piccys :)


  • #35
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    loads of pics here http://www.trackdayphotos.com/gallery_Cannonball_2009_m80-sb_id-so_descending-page1.html


  • #36
    Zube
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,502 ✭✭✭Zube


    Biro wrote: »
    http://bmw-planet.com/galleries/main.php?g2_itemId=4579
    What's that middle one? Looks like a poor "replica"

    Looks like a Mondial, a Ferrari 2+2.


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  • #37
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    http://www.trackdayphotos.com/watermark2.php?i=8217

    Doesn't look great here :(


  • #38
    bostoncommon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 317 ✭✭bostoncommon


    steve06 wrote: »
    email it to yourself from your phone, then post it. Better be good! :D
    fella driving at the time. Managed to get 2 red mini's in the one photo!


  • #39
    bostoncommon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 317 ✭✭bostoncommon


    steve06 wrote: »
    http://www.trackdayphotos.com/watermark2.php?i=8217

    Doesn't look great here :(

    very hard to see inside


  • #40
    bostoncommon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 317 ✭✭bostoncommon


    more photos


  • #41
    bostoncommon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 317 ✭✭bostoncommon


    2


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  • #42
    yungb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭yungb


    just heard of a load of them getting pulled in south tipp for speeding. cops were prob waitin for them


  • #43
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    yungb wrote: »
    just heard of a load of them getting pulled in south tipp for speeding. cops were prob waitin for them
    I didn't hear that, I hear there was traffic delays because 130 cannonball cars were going through!


  • #44
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    I can just imagine the cops delight as the came over the crest of a hill and into the loving arms of cops.
    Woah, whoahhhh, where's the race? do you have any idea of have fast you were going? Pull in there now like a good lad.
    :pac:


  • #45
    De Hipster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭De Hipster


    yungb wrote: »
    just heard of a load of them getting pulled in south tipp for speeding. cops were prob waitin for them

    They're short one maserati & driver from the Naas dual carraigeway too!


  • #46
    DJ Hafez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 948 ✭✭✭DJ Hafez


    Few from Kinsale. Cam died so I didn't get pics of the xbow or 722 :( Heard on the radio that a veyron is being flown in tonight to Cork from Dubai to compete tomorrow from Killarney onwards. Insurance on it for the weekend is like 50k! Crazy! :D

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  • #47
    Hal1
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    Looks like a great day out in Kinsale. :)


  • #48
    DJ Hafez
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    Hal1 wrote: »
    Looks like a great day out in Kinsale. :)

    I would have loved to stay down there for the rest of the day but my buddy had work and I said I'd drop him back up :( Fantastic day though! Didn't see the Bugatti EB110 that they said was going to be there though at all, not even on the drive back. Was nice to see 2 Phantoms in convoy, presumably one of them was junkyards :)


  • #49
    Hooch
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  • #50
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Was that a copper taking the photo's? :pac::D


  • #51
    Hooch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭Hooch


    Hal1 wrote: »
    Was that a copper taking the photo's? :pac::D

    No way......!!

    *Somebody is bloody quick*


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