![]() I think SubieWerks is a great way of spreading the fun of Subaru and rallying to the world. ![]() ![]() If we can’t win with speed, we will win with reliability. Until then we are trying our hardest to finish every rally we enter. With more experience will come more speed and confidence. Since we are a small, privateer team without any big sponsors, finishing a rally is more important to us than being on the top step of the podium. Our goal is to keep racing as long as possible and of course to have fun doing so. And now we are competing in rallysprints and stage rally here in Washington. We have touched every part on the car at least once and there is still a lot left to upgrade. Within the first couple of seasons we upgraded the suspension, rear differential, brakes, transmission, added a roll cage, and changed engines. We rebuilt the engine and addressed a few other small issues and the car was ready for rallycross. I bought a 1996 Subaru Impreza and decided that that was going to be my platform for my rally car. After a couple of seasons it was time for something new. I started in the stock front class with my Honda Civic. I started competing in SCCA rallycross events when I was 15. They rallied their Mazda RX3 in the northwest during the 80s. My grandparents were my inspiration for me to get into rally. My mom and grandma attend most of the races and help us in the pits. Saturday’s Munster Moonraker Rally in Ballyvourney, Co Cork and the Carrick-on-Suir Hillclimb have been postponed as a mark of respect.Our team is a small family team consisting of my dad as the navigator, my grandpa as the lead mechanic and me as the driver. May they all find the strength and support they need at this unimaginably tragic time.” To Craig’s family, his parents Ray and Jackie, his sister Kellie, brother-in-law Darragh and nephew Bobbie, I wish to extend my deepest condolences and all our thoughts remain with Craig’s co-driver James Fulton. Craig was a world-class driver and a world-class person. Motorsport Ireland president Aiden Harper said: “The Irish motorsport community is numbed by this tragic news. Last year, he joined M-Sport Ford (finishing third in Monte Carlo), in what was the new hybrid era of the World Rally Championship, before returning to Hyundai this year. With Hyundai in 20 his success included podium places in Estonia, Ypres and Finland. He continued to add to his honours, winning in the Pirelli Star Driver Global Shootout Final (2010) the WRC Academy Championship (2011) and the Super 2000 World Rally Championship (2012).Īfter joining Citroen he came third in Finland (2016) and second in Sweden (2018). The same year, he also won the Irish National Junior Rally Championship and the Billy Coleman Young Rally Driver of the Year Award. In 2009 – in his first outing in the WRC – he secured a class win and 25th overall in Rally Portugal he also won the Irish and UK Fiesta Sporting Trophies. ![]() He drove for Citroen, Hyundai (twice) and M-Sport Ford and took many podium positions in events all over the world.įrom his first season as a rally driver, he was a winner. Although it was only a partial drive with Hyundai, it began well with a second-place finish in Rally Sweden last February.įrom karting Breen progressed to rallying and was always single-minded in his determination to attain his ambition. Just this year he returned to the Korean team following a year as lead driver with the M-Sport Ford team. Since childhood Breen had pursued his chief career ambition: to become a professional rally driver. The Waterford ace was an immensely popular driver at home and abroad, his off-the-cuff, end-of-stage comments to the WRC Live channel endearing him to fans around the globe. His co-driver from Cavan, James Fulton, was unharmed in the incident that occurred just after midday local time. The test with his Hyundai Motorsport team was in preparation for next week’s fourth round of the World Rally Championship in Croatia. Ireland’s top rally star, Waterford’s Craig Breen (33), was killed during a pre-event test yesterday aboard his Hyundai i20 N Rally1.
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