During the rally weekend there was a big crowd of cars at Newtowncunningham so I stopped for a gander, thinking there must be a stage on the way through.
Instead people were gathering outside a fence around a building, watching in the drizzle as one car or, even more scarily, two cars careered around inside, doing doughnuts, handbrake turns and all the rest. Engines roaring, steam and vaporised rubber rising in clouds.
From my vantage point, well away from the action but still close enough to experience the noise, it looked pretty skillful.
The problem comes in the practising stages, done on the public roads and at some risk to the drivers, their passengers and the unsuspecting (well, pretty suspecting at this stage) public.
Here's one of the writers in the motoring section of the 'Irish Times' on the phenomenon - http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/motors/2009/0708/1224250223633.html?via=mr
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