Donagh Kelly craving home joy

Donegal’s Donagh Kelly (Ford Focus WRC) would happily trade all his rally wins and even his Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Championship and the Triton Showers National Rally Championship titles for success in the Joule Donegal International Rally that gets underway today.

Victory in what is the only three day event in the Tarmac series is seen as a status symbol and with Kelly acknowledging he has little or no interest in events outside Ireland, he describes winning in Donegal as “the ultimate.”

Kelly faces stiff competition from former winners Garry Jennings (Subaru), Declan Boyle (Fiesta WRC) and Eugene Donnelly (Mini WRC).