"We currently own a PRC Mitsubishi Evo 8 but because of limited funding and changes that we would need to make our car compliant to run group N in the WRC event, we have decided to lease a car from Mick Ryan of Rallyschool, so we will be flying the Irish flag in our Rallyschool Subaru Impreza STI in September," said Drake.

"We have done a few ARC events this season with a few high points and a few low points. The best moment was finishing seventh in Heat 2 in Rally Canberra and probably our most dissapointing moment was breaking the rear diff on stage 3 in Rally Queensland which put us out the rally.  We had a great test at that event and confidence was high, so it was really frustrating to be putting the car on the trailer so soon into the event."

"It has been a steep learning curve for us with trying to learn to drive a 4WD turbo car and also Eoin and I trying to develop a pace note system that we are both happy with. We have made good progress throughtout the year and we will definitely be competing in next year's ARC."