For those that aren’t all that familiar with the Irish Rally Scene , Kevin Lynch (KPL Contracts) is a rally driver who has a couple of WRC cars, his son Sean set up a production company and has created this video of his aul lad in action, so on an August day in 2009 the Nutts Corner area was covered in tyre scree and filled with the sounds of Rally Cars doing what they do best.

After last week’s official announcement from Toyota prior to the Tokyo Motor Show, further pictures have now been posted on the enthusiast forum ft86club.com.

Showing the FT-86 Concept being photographed in the studio we get a much better impression of the design and detailing of Toyota’s forthcoming sportscar.

Dean ‘Karnage’ Kearney made the trip to the final round of Formula D in the USA, and was unlucky with some mechnical issues which put a stop to him qualifying .. Ross Fairfield (deadpirate on the forum) knocked up this video of his adventures ..

I’ve seen a few of the D1 GP drivers at this sort of stuff before, Hibino in the UK at Silverstone, but I’ve never seen balls like this…

Former World Rally Championship driver Pentti Airikkala died yesterday after a long illness.

The Finn, 64, was a frequent top-line competitor in the 1970s and 1980s, and tackled a total of 36 WRC events, mostly driving rear-wheel drive Vauxhall/Opel cars like the Chevette HS and Magnum Coupe.

A former Finnish and Scandinavian rally champion, longtime UK resident Airikkala also won the British title in 1979.

He is probably best remembered though, when he drove a Vauxhall Chevette HS for the DTV team in the late ’70s. In winning the 1979 Circuit of Ireland Rally (the year he won the British championship), Airikkala became the first and only ‘foreign’ driver to do so and later regarded this win as the finest of his long distinguished career.

“The Circuit of Ireland is a very special rally – very long, very hard, very competitive. I am proud to be the first European to win,” Pentti said at the time.

It was a busy weekend for motorsport championships all round with a number of championships being decided. In a great weekend for Irish motorsport, two Irish pairings won major rally championships in Britain and Italy and a Meath driver is the favourite to take an American racing title. Keith Cronin from Bantry and his Limerick co-driver Greg Shinnors scored their third International win of the year, to clinch the British Rally Championship, the first Irish crew to take the title since the legendary Billy Coleman, 35 years ago.

The 23 year old West Cork driver, the 2007 winner of the Billy Coleman Award for Young Rally Driver of the Year, won three of the six rounds in his Cremins Coaches Mitsubishi Evo 9 and finished second in two more behind three times champion Mark Higgins.

Team Karnage to compete at Formula D, Irwindale October 16th/17th:

Dublin, Ireland. September 16th 2009:

Dean “Karnage” Kearney the 2009 Prodrift Super Series champion has confirmed a dream of his today to compete in the USA in the elite drifting series worldwide, Formula D. The final round of the Formula D championship will be staged at the Toyota Speedway or more popularly known as the  “House of Drift” in Irwindale, California on the 16h/17th October 2009. Deans ambition to compete in the USA came after witnessing the REDBULL Drifting World Championships in 2008 at the port of Long Beach and wanted to follow in the footsteps of past Prodrift Champions of 2006 Darren “DMAC” McNamara and 2007 Eric “Flat Eric” O’Sullivan.

Mike Deane managed to put another hand on the championship trophy with another commanding win on Saturday in the Irish Series at Mondello. With flawless driving from Deane all day it was always going to be hard to disrupt his winning ways. And it came down to a final battle between the brothers Deane, with Mike eventually taking the spoils.

Pro Seeded
1.Mike Deane
2.James Deane
3.Johnny Power

Non seeded
1.Stephen Bolger
2.Trevor Murphy
3.Dan Moorehead

Fully Gallery Here

Bmw don’t hand out the Motorsport Badge to every car in a range, they only select the one that fits their requirements, and it hands out the rarest of badges the CSL only when it’s sure that the car represents the standard that has gone before, and so we take a look at the E46 M3 CSL. Some may argue that the E30 M3 is a purer beast, but for all that the M badge represnts best I think it’s captured here in this model.

The good guys at Prodrift have a new Video out for Round 3