IRISH TARMAC RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP
Galway International Rally
The Galway rally was a highly memorable one for tyre maker Kumho as it was the outright winner and four of the first seven cars were shod with the company's competition tyres.
The overall victory went on this, the first round of the 2009 Irish Tarmac Championship, to Eugene Donnelly and Paddy Toner in a Skoda Fabia WRC. Four times Irish Tarmac Champion Donnelly was back on Kumho tyres for the first time since 2007 and was quick to praise their part in his victory.
Donnelly beamed, "The conditions on both days were atrocious. There was standing water, rain and hailstones pounding the windscreen, plus the occasional patch of ice, but our Kumho Tyres worked extremely well throughout."
Simon McBride