Donegal International Rally 2014

danniemcq

This thread is for people to discuss the events of the rally. Its not for a discussion on "if the rally should go ahead" or "Hate X or Y about the rally".

Keep it civil, let people know the goings on and put up some pics if you want.

One of the biggest weekends in Donegal and love it or loath it its happening.

LINKS

Official Donegal International Rally website

Discover Ireland Page

DonegalNow sport section

Rally.ie details

Facebook Page

Twitter

Road Closures (PDF download from Donegal council website

Let me know if i missed anything and be safe out there everyone

homer simpson

Here is hoping for an enjoyable safe weekend. Can't wait until Sunday so I can get to enjoy it properly. Organising and setting up Knockalla is no easy task . If anyone wants advice on good places to view or times ask away on here, I'll do my best to help out.

liam7831

Watch @MorningEdition and 6-1 sports news tomorrow RTE 1 @rtenews. Cathal Curley takes a spin in iconic 9-11!

homer simpson

liam7831 wrote: »

Watch @MorningEdition and 6-1 sports news tomorrow RTE 1 @rtenews. Cathal Curley takes a spin in iconic 9-11!

When was that recorded d'ya know Liam? Unusual place for a spin that.

liam7831

homer simpson wrote: »

When was that recorded d'ya know Liam? Unusual place for a spin that.[/QUOTE

Today as far as I know

liam7831

I see Gallaghars machine in the background too

Pique

Is the burnout area in Bonagee there again?

homer simpson

Pique wrote: »

Is the burnout area in Bonagee there again?

Even though it's got nothing to do with the Rally!!!

Karting centre have advertised for Sat and the DDT raceway in Manor (best place for them) is advertising for every night. Not seen anything about bonagee.

Pique

homer simpson wrote: »

Even though it's got nothing to do with the Rally!!!

Karting centre have advertised for Sat and the DDT raceway in Manor (best place for them) is advertising for every night. Not seen anything about bonagee.

Good to hear.

And I wish it had nothing to do with the rally, but unfortunately they go hand in hand and keeping those activities off the public roads is a major benefit.

Sunny Dayz

Looking forward to this weekend, hope the weather holds up. The only good thing about the rain is it deters those who wouldn't be too interested in the rally from messing about. I've only been going to Donegal Rally the last couple of years, so I'm hoping this will be my first dry rally!! A gang of us have been travelling up the country for it every year - the hubbie is a native to the area which helps.

Will be on the road as soon as the young lad finishes up school tomorrow, he can't wait for it!

Everyone have a great weekend!

homer simpson

For anyone who is curious but not too sure about the rally, pop down to McGinley motors today anytime between 3.30pm and 8pm for pre event scrutiny. Its'a great chance to get up close and personal to the rallycars and crews while they undergo the rigorous safety checks before the event start properly tomorrow.

byte

Was planning a visit to Letterkenny to do some things on Saturday, forgetting about the Rally!

I was trying to find where and when the stages are, without much luck (I'm assuming I'd need to buy the programme).

Would there be any good time to hit Letterkenny on Saturday, if there is maybe a rally stage up in Inishowen or whereever, away from town?

Thanks.

dregin

The excitement of seeing the balloon flying above Telecom Eireann's building beside UNIFI during the rally was utterly ridiculous when I was a kid

Cee-Jay-Cee

byte wrote: »

Was planning a visit to Letterkenny to do some things on Saturday, forgetting about the Rally!

I was trying to find where and when the stages are, without much luck (I'm assuming I'd need to buy the programme).

Would there be any good time to hit Letterkenny on Saturday, if there is maybe a rally stage up in Inishowen or whereever, away from town?

Thanks.

The rally cars leave letterkenny early on Saturday morning so best time to come into town would be after 10am and be gone by 3 at the latest when the hoards of "lappers" start lapping around the town and no one else can get anywhere.

Flibbles

Does anyone know where to find the stages so I know where I can drive?

danniemcq

http://www.donegalcoco.ie/NR/rdonlyres/BEF76E25-9D3F-4467-B3B9-2E628A0B49D3/0/FinalNoticeTemporaryClosureofRoadsDonegalInternationalRally.pdf

list of all road closures and when they open.

Maps are included in the program guide and not available online for free.

Where you looking to go and where as over the 3 days each day is a section of Donegal so it leaves the rest of the county free

Flibbles

danniemcq wrote: »

http://www.donegalcoco.ie/NR/rdonlyres/BEF76E25-9D3F-4467-B3B9-2E628A0B49D3/0/FinalNoticeTemporaryClosureofRoadsDonegalInternationalRally.pdf

list of all road closures and when they open.

Maps are included in the program guide and not available online for free.

Where you looking to go and where as over the 3 days each day is a section of Donegal so it leaves the rest of the county free

404

Gweedore tomorrow is the plan.

homer simpson

Flibbles wrote: »

404

Gweedore tomorrow is the plan.

It'll be nowhere near there.

Flibbles

homer simpson wrote: »

It'll be nowhere near there.

Sounds good, I was thinking more about getting out the town and such.

danniemcq

Flibbles wrote: »

404

Gweedore tomorrow is the plan.

Sigh looks like Donegal Co. Council updated their site on a Friday of the Rally and broke all links!

I'll see if i have a cached copy at home and update

dregin

danniemcq wrote: »

Sigh looks like Donegal Co. Council updated their site on a Friday of the Rally and broke all links!

I'll see if i have a cached copy at home and update

The site looks ok from here. You have specific examples of broken links?

kiddums

The link on the page wasnt working for me, but you can find it under road closures on the county councils website.
This is the link in case it works now.

I know this will be controversial but I try and avoid the rally due to the wannabe fans.
I don't mind the event, or the noise, or disruption, or the genuine fans. Its just the twats that ruin it for me completely. Haven't been in years as a result. But I do see they had a section for applying for being a marshall, I would have considered that if I saw it in time.
Is anyone doing that this year? Homer?

nmg_ire

Gutted i'll not get a chance to see any stages this year but it can't be helped. With weather like that this weekend travelling throughout Donegal will be brilliant.
Good luck the all drivers, organisers and fans. Hopefully we'll only have good headlines on Monday.

Rule No.1 for spectators this weekend - Do what the Marshall say, your live depends on it.

danniemcq

dregin wrote: »

The site looks ok from here. You have specific examples of broken links?

http://www.google.com/cse?cref=http://search.gov.ie/customcse/www.donegalcoco.ie&q=closure&sitesearch=www.donegalcoco.ie#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=closure&gsc.page=1

first link on that

danniemcq

nmg_ire wrote: »

Rule No.1 for spectators this weekend - Do what the Marshall say, your live depends on it.

Couldn't agree more.

Remember even if you think you know better than they do you don't.

And they will cancel the stage if you dick around. All it takes is a call.

homer simpson

kiddums wrote: »

The link on the page wasnt working for me, but you can find it under road closures on the county councils website.
This is the link in case it works now.


I know this will be controversial but I try and avoid the rally due to the wannabe fans.
I don't mind the event, or the noise, or disruption, or the genuine fans. Its just the twats that ruin it for me completely. Haven't been in years as a result. But I do see they had a section for applying for being a marshall, I would have considered that if I saw it in time.
Is anyone doing that this year? Homer?

I know we are tight for marshals for tomorrow if you fancy giving us a hand on the knockalla stage. Lots of quiet junctions with little or no access. Send me a wee pm if your interested

Pique

Where can we see up to date standings?

Any word on how Michael Dunlop got on?

homer simpson

Pique wrote: »

Where can we see up to date standings?

Any word on how Michael Dunlop got on?

Times are being updated live onto this site, http://results.shannonsportsit.ie/results.php?rally=DL14

Pique

Spectator injured during stage 12. Hope it's not too bad!

homer simpson

Pique wrote: »

Spectator injured during stage 12. Hope it's not too bad!

Nope thankfully. Unlike what some "news sources" are saying, a car went off the road and a spectator suffered a broken leg running at the scene of the accident, nobody was seriously injured, nobody had to dive for cover I know because I was there, wasn't nice to see it was the first car I seen too after coming from an earlier stage.

It was a fairly big accident very high speed but it is a testament to the fantastic safety features on modern rallycars that the crew were unscathed.

kiddums

homer simpson wrote: »

I know we are tight for marshals for tomorrow if you fancy giving us a hand on the knockalla stage. Lots of quiet junctions with little or no access. Send me a wee pm if your interested

Sorry Homer, I wasnt about Fri night / Sat.
I'll keep an eye out for next year tho.

How was the event as a whole? (Other than THAT video, showing why the rally has a bad name)

homer simpson

kiddums wrote: »

Sorry Homer, I wasnt about Fri night / Sat.
I'll keep an eye out for next year tho.

How was the event as a whole? (Other than THAT video, showing why the rally has a bad name)

Fantastic, unbelievable pace all weekend. everyone commenting on how well behaved spectators were, considering the huge amount of them around I only seen 2 cases of silly standing positions, one was media the other was a marshal.

First time in a long while we got 2 clean knockalla stages too which was a relief!

Take 10 minutes to watch the winners over the knockalla stage and judge for yourselves