Boland Raring To Go!

NetworkRally Report 1
Friday, November 19th, 1999
Dom Buckley

D.Buckley IRS LTD
Hassington Garage,
Kelso,
Scotland
TD57QU

TEL: +44 1573 470220
FAX: +44 1573 470288
email : dom.buckley@virgin.net
email : dommy67@hotmail.com

Dom Buckley International Rally Services LTD have been preparing competition cars for over 20 years.

Initially D.Buckley snr was a very fast driver contesting rallies all over Britain, other competitors having seen his level of car preperation turned to him for advice, and so the business started.

Over the years IRS have prepared many makes of cars From Metro 6R4 to Subaru and Ford Escort WRC cars.

Working in many foreign countries continually engineering and developing many different makes for many different conditions have seen the company grow into one of the UK most highly respected preperation and engineering firms.

Last year, the company ran one customer on 7 rounds of the world rally championship and this year has seen them contest selected rounds with various customers.

This year as well as Eamonn, IRS is also running one other Mitsubishi Lancer for a Peruvian customer.

This in itself is proof of the company's world wide stature.

Rally Car Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 5 - Group N

The car Eamonn is to use has only competed in three rallies previous to 1999 Network Q Rally.

Built new in June this year, the car was used by D.Buckley Jnr on the British Rally Championship Jim Clark Rally where it was leading Group N by two minutes and was fourth overall before it slid off and got stuck.

Since then the car has contested both the Bulldog and Premier stages rally in the hands of Eamonn.