{"id":2863,"date":"2015-11-25T14:10:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T14:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rallynews.net\/pattersonpacenotes\/wordpress\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2015-11-25T17:05:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:05:22","slug":"eugene-donnelly-joins-the-tarmac-titans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rallynews.net\/pattersonpacenotes\/wordpress\/eugene-donnelly-joins-the-tarmac-titans\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Donnelly Joins the RPM Tarmac Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rallynews.net\/pattersonpacenotes\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Donnelly-DVD-Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2865\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rallynews.net\/pattersonpacenotes\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Donnelly-DVD-Cover-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Donnelly DVD Cover\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rallynews.net\/pattersonpacenotes\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Donnelly-DVD-Cover-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.rallynews.net\/pattersonpacenotes\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Donnelly-DVD-Cover.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>The five times Irish Tarmac Champion and winner of 18 Tarmac Championship rounds Eugene Donnelly, is the latest driver to be featured in RPM\u2019s renowned Tarmac Titan DVD series.<\/p>\n<p>Eugene joins Billy Coleman, Jimmy MacRae, Austin MacHale, Bertie Fisher, Frank Meagher, Kenny McKinstry and Andrew Nesbitt on the prestigious list of rally stars that have dominated the Irish stages during recent decades.<\/p>\n<p>The four-hour DVD charts The Genie\u2019s career from his beginning in Mark II Escorts, through his development years in the Gartrac G3 Escort, the crazy days when he competed in as many as 33 events in one season, and on to his time at the top of the game in WRC machinery.<\/p>\n<p>The Donnelly Motorsport Team were considered by many to be the underdogs in Ireland\u2019s premier rally championship, but helped by Derek McGeehan\u2019s engineering genius and the support of his family. Eugene became a multiple winner.<\/p>\n<p>Elder brother Charlie Donnelly, co-drivers Paul Nagle, Paul Kiely and Paddy Toner; engineers Derek McGeehan, Stan Harper and competitors Andrew Nesbitt, Tim McNulty and Eugene\u2019s close friend Glenn Allen all help to tell Eugene\u2019s amazing story.<\/p>\n<p>Its a story that as well as taking you right into the action of this adrenalin educing sport, also takes you behind the scenes with frank previously unaired disclosures.<\/p>\n<p>It is a high-speed story of great victories and great escapes. Of family triumphs and tragedies, and of some considerable controversy at times.<\/p>\n<p>TARMAC TITAN \u2013 Eugene Donnelly can be ordered now on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpm-motorsport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.rpm-motorsport.com<\/a> for \u00a314.99p + P&amp;P. Deliveries commence 1st. December 2015<\/p>\n<p>For further information contact: Alan Tyndall 02892 689258 or 07887 827150 alan@rpm-motorsport.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five times Irish Tarmac Champion and winner of 18 Tarmac Championship rounds Eugene Donnelly, is the latest driver to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rallynews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rallynews.net\/pattersonpacenotes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rallynews.net\/pattersonpacenotes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rallynews.net\/pattersonpacenotes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rallynews.net\/pattersonpacenotes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rallynews.net\/pattersonpacenotes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rallynews.net\/pattersonpacenotes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2893,"href":"https:\/\/www.rallynews.net\/pattersonpacenotes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions\/2893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rallynews.net\/pattersonpacenotes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rallynews.net\/pattersonpacenotes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rallynews.net\/pattersonpacenotes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}