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The Irish Tarmac Rally Championship is Ireland's premier rallying

Rallying

Rallying, also known as rally racing, is a form of auto racing that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars...

series. The championship, made up of events run on closed tarmac roads, was first run in 1978.

Current events

The following events are currently part of the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship:

Galway International Rally
Circuit of Ireland Rally
Circuit of Ireland Rally
The Circuit of Ireland International Rally is an annual automobile rally, which was first held in 1931 making it the second oldest rally in the world. The most recent event was held in 2010....
Rally of the Lakes
Rally of the Lakes
The Rally of the Lakes takes place each year on May bank holiday weekend. The rally has been running since 1979 and in 2008 the rally formed the third round in the 2008 Global Group Irish Tarmac Rally Championship and revamped its brand identity to reflect its position as one of Ireland's leading...
Donegal International Rally
Donegal International Rally
The Donegal International Rally is an annual sporting event held in County Donegal, Ireland. It is one of Ireland's oldest annual rally competitions and is a top event in the Irish Rallying calendar. It has a reputation for being one of the country's most challenging rallies...
Ulster International Rally
Cork 20 Rally
Cork 20 Rally
The Cork 20 Rally is a long standing motor endurance test lasting twenty hours which is held annually in the vicinity of Cork in Munster, Ireland. It is now a well established international event, drawing competitors from Ireland North and South, Britain, Europe and further afield. The rally was...

Previous winners

Year	Driver	Co-driver	Car
1978	John Taylor	John Jenson	Ford Escort RS1800
1979	Brian Nelson	Rodney Cole	Ford Escort RS1800
1980	Jimmy McRae Jimmy McRae Jimmy McRae is a Scottish rally driver. He is the father of World Rally Championship drivers Alister McRae, and the late 1995 World Rally Champion Colin McRae...	Frank Main	Vauxhall Chevette HSR
1981	Jimmy McRae Jimmy McRae Jimmy McRae is a Scottish rally driver. He is the father of World Rally Championship drivers Alister McRae, and the late 1995 World Rally Champion Colin McRae...	Ian Grindrod	Opel Ascona 400
1982	John Coyne	Christy Farrell	Lotus Sunbeam
1983	Austin McHale	Christy Farrell	Vauxhall Chevette HSR
1984	Billy Coleman	Ronan Morgan	Opel Manta 400
1985	Austin McHale	Christy Farrell	Opel Manta 400
1986	Austin McHale	Christy Farrell	Opel Manta 400
1987	Mark Lovell Mark Lovell Mark Lovell was a British rally driver. He won the 1986 British Rally Championship in a Ford RS200 Group B, the 1987 and 1988 Irish Tarmac Rally Championship, the 1988 International Dutch Rally Drivers' Championship and the 2001 SCCA ProRally Drivers' Championship in the United States...	Roger Freeman	Ford Sierra Cosworth
1988	Mark Lovell Mark Lovell Mark Lovell was a British rally driver. He won the 1986 British Rally Championship in a Ford RS200 Group B, the 1987 and 1988 Irish Tarmac Rally Championship, the 1988 International Dutch Rally Drivers' Championship and the 2001 SCCA ProRally Drivers' Championship in the United States...	Terry Harryman	Ford Sierra Cosworth
1989	Russell Brookes Russell Brookes Russell Brookes is an English former rally driver. He won the British Rally Championship with a Ford Escort RS1800 in 1977 and with an Opel Manta 400 in 1985. In 1978, he won the Rally New Zealand, a round of the FIA Cup for Drivers, the predecessor to the World Championship for Drivers...	Diekman/Wilson/Brown	Ford Sierra Cosworth
1990	Bertie Fisher	Rory Kennedy	BMW M3 BMW M3 The BMW M3 is a high-performance version of the BMW 3 Series, developed by BMW's in-house motorsport division, BMW M. M3 models have been derived from the E30, E36, E46 and E90/E92/E93 3-series, and sold with coupé, sedan and convertible body styles...
1991	Kenny McKinstry	Robbie Philpott	Ford Sierra Cosworth
1992	Bertie Fisher	Rory Kennedy	Subaru Legacy Subaru Legacy The Subaru Legacy is a mid-size car built by the Japanese company Fuji Heavy Industries, and manufactured by its division Subaru since 1989, and is available as a sedan or wagon. Part of the original design goals for the Legacy model was to provide Subaru a vehicle in which they could compete in...
1993	Bertie Fisher	Rory Kennedy	Subaru Legacy Subaru Legacy The Subaru Legacy is a mid-size car built by the Japanese company Fuji Heavy Industries, and manufactured by its division Subaru since 1989, and is available as a sedan or wagon. Part of the original design goals for the Legacy model was to provide Subaru a vehicle in which they could compete in...
1994	Kenny McKinstry	Robbie Philpott	Subaru Legacy Subaru Legacy The Subaru Legacy is a mid-size car built by the Japanese company Fuji Heavy Industries, and manufactured by its division Subaru since 1989, and is available as a sedan or wagon. Part of the original design goals for the Legacy model was to provide Subaru a vehicle in which they could compete in...
1995	Frank Meagher	Pat Moloughney	Ford Escort Cosworth
1996	Bertie Fisher	Rory Kennedy	Subaru Impreza Subaru Impreza Introduced in November 1993, the Impreza was offered in either front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive versions and as a four-door sedan/saloon or five-door station wagon/estate. According to a Motor Trend article written March 1992 on page 26, the name of Subaru's new compact was, initially, to be...
1997	Austin McHale	Brian Murphy	Toyota Celica Toyota Celica The Toyota Celica name has been applied to a series of coupes made by the Japanese company Toyota. The name is ultimately derived from the Latin word coelica meaning "heavenly" or "celestial"....
1998	Austin McHale	Brian Murphy	Toyota Celica Toyota Celica The Toyota Celica name has been applied to a series of coupes made by the Japanese company Toyota. The name is ultimately derived from the Latin word coelica meaning "heavenly" or "celestial"....
1999	Ian Greer	Dean Beckett	Toyota Celica Toyota Celica The Toyota Celica name has been applied to a series of coupes made by the Japanese company Toyota. The name is ultimately derived from the Latin word coelica meaning "heavenly" or "celestial"....
2000	Andrew Nesbitt Andrew Nesbitt Andrew Nesbitt is a rally driver and businessman from Newtownhamilton, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland. He is currently co-driven by James O'Brien from Co. Cork. He is best known for driving the Subaru Impreza but first made his name driving a Toyota Celica on the 1996 Donegal International Rally...	James O'Brien	Subaru Impreza WRC
2001	Cancelled due to foot-and-mouth disease outbreak
2002	Andrew Nesbitt Andrew Nesbitt Andrew Nesbitt is a rally driver and businessman from Newtownhamilton, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland. He is currently co-driven by James O'Brien from Co. Cork. He is best known for driving the Subaru Impreza but first made his name driving a Toyota Celica on the 1996 Donegal International Rally...	James O'Brien	Subaru Impreza WRC
2003	Derek McGarrity	Dermot O'Gormon	Subaru Impreza S8
2004	Derek McGarrity	Dermot O'Gormon	Subaru Impreza S8
2004	Eugene Donnelly Eugene Donnelly Eugene Donnelly is a rally driver from County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, who races in the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship.-Career:...	Paul Kiely	Toyota Corolla Toyota Corolla The Toyota Corolla is a line of subcompact and compact cars manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota, which has become very popular throughout the world since the nameplate was first introduced in 1966. In 1997, the Corolla became the best selling nameplate in the world, with over 35 million...
2005	Eugene Donnelly Eugene Donnelly Eugene Donnelly is a rally driver from County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, who races in the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship.-Career:...	Paul Kiely	Toyota Corolla Toyota Corolla The Toyota Corolla is a line of subcompact and compact cars manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota, which has become very popular throughout the world since the nameplate was first introduced in 1966. In 1997, the Corolla became the best selling nameplate in the world, with over 35 million...
2006	Eugene Donnelly Eugene Donnelly Eugene Donnelly is a rally driver from County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, who races in the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship.-Career:...	Paul Kiely	Toyota Corolla Toyota Corolla The Toyota Corolla is a line of subcompact and compact cars manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota, which has become very popular throughout the world since the nameplate was first introduced in 1966. In 1997, the Corolla became the best selling nameplate in the world, with over 35 million...
2007	Eugene Donnelly Eugene Donnelly Eugene Donnelly is a rally driver from County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, who races in the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship.-Career:...	Paul Kiely	Toyota Corolla Toyota Corolla The Toyota Corolla is a line of subcompact and compact cars manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota, which has become very popular throughout the world since the nameplate was first introduced in 1966. In 1997, the Corolla became the best selling nameplate in the world, with over 35 million...
2008	Eamonn Boland	Damien Morrisey	Subaru Impreza S12
2009	Eugene Donnelly Eugene Donnelly Eugene Donnelly is a rally driver from County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, who races in the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship.-Career:...	Paddy Toner	Škoda Fabia WRC
2010	Gareth McHale	Brian Murphy	Ford Focus WRC Ford Focus WRC The Ford Focus RS WRC is a car built for the Ford World Rally Team by Ford and M-Sport and based on the Ford Focus Climate 2-litre production hatchback, developed to compete in the World Rally Championship. The RS stands for Rallye Sport and the WRC for World Rally Car, the car's FIA specification...

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