Shifting up a gear for life in the fast lane

Sitting in his little1.4-litre Ford, Eamonn McCafferty watched the high-powered rally cars hurtling away from the start line in an almost deafening roar.

Shifting up a gear for life in the   fast lane

“Wait till you feel the power in those boys,” he told me in softly-spoken reverential tones.

“OK Stephen, here we go; three..two...one” and with that I was pinned against my seat, gripping the roll-bar beside me for dear life and trying to focus on a road barely wide enough for a car which was, without a shadow of doubt, the fastest I had ever been in in my entire life...up to that point.

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