Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast, Season 2025, Episode 11.   Eddie Doherty and co-driver Tom Murphy discuss their maiden win on the Circuit of Kerry Rally, round two of the Triton Showers National Rally Championship.   Jack Harris also joins Kevin to talk about his maiden Rally4 class victory on the Circuit of Kerry Rally, where the young Donegal driver leads the Motorsport Ireland Junior Rally...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast, 2025 Season, episode 10.  In this episode, we speak with Andrew and Graeme Nesbitt about their recent outings on the Race & Rally Stages, which took place at the Bishopscourt circuit. Two-time Irish Tarmac Champion and rally legend Andrew competed in a Fiesta Rally2 for the first time.  Whilst Graeme drove his trusty Lancer Evo 10 and had Bryan Murphy on th...

**Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast, Season 2025, Episode 9** In this episode, we chat with Ray Sherratt, a highly regarded rally engineer who is recognised for his significant contributions to motorsport engineering. Ray has worked across various engineering and motorsport-related fields. He is best known for his time at MCD, which later became Rally Engineering Development (RED), a renowned ra...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast, 2025 Season, episode 8.   Craig Rahill, Keelan Grogan, Conor Smith and Ayrton Sherlock join us to talk about competing on the 2025 Junior ERC championship.  With support from the MI Rally Academy both crews will tackle all six rounds of the Junior ERC in Rally4 Peugeot 208s with the first round getting underway in Spain on April 4th.

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast, 2025 Season, episode 7. In a conversation with Kieran O’Neill, the renowned Irish rallying legend and entertainer, we explore his early days in Belfast and his involvement with Group Motors Rallying. Kieran shares the story of how he began driving his famous Opel Kadett and recounts his many achievements, including finishing fourth overall in the 1994 Circuit o...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast. 2025 Season, episode 6.   We catch up with Jon Armstrong and Shane Byrne, Motorsport Ireland Rally Academy athletes. They will be joining the M-Sport World Rally Team in a Rally2 Fiesta to compete in all eight rounds of the 2025 FIA European Rally Championship (ERC).   Jon and Shane chat about the year ahead and how their preparations are going for round one of...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast. 2025 Season, episode 5.   We spoke to Dessie Wilson about his rallying career, which spans over five decades and includes winning the 1994 Circuit of Ireland alongside Stephen Finlay. Dessie's journey in rallying is remarkable—he has organised events, nurtured young talent, developed a numbered pace note system, navigated Bertie Fisher to his first stage rally...

**Krunching Gears: The Rally Podcast - 2025 Season, Episode 4**  In this episode, we discuss Performance Psychology in Motorsport with Dr. Stephen Walsh and Sean Moriarty. Dr Walsh is a lecturer in psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University and an experienced motorbike racer. He combines his expertise in performance psychology with his motorsport knowledge to offer insights into the mental s...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast 2025 Season Episode 3.   On this week’s Krunching Gears, we catch up with Becs Williams to chat about the 2024 WRC season and look ahead to the 2025 season that gets underway in Monte Carlo.   Becs is a distinguished commentator renowned for her extensive contributions to the World Rally and European Rally Championships. Beginning her WRC journey in 2002, she be...

The 2025 Season of Krunching Gears, episode 2.   In this edition of Krunching Gears—The Rally Podcast, we chat with Mats van den Brand, who specialises in building and preparing BMW M3 rally cars according to FIA historic rally specifications.  Mats is based in the Netherlands, and both Mats and his beautifully prepared cars are becoming a regular feature of Irish rallying.   The BMW M3 E30 is an...

The first podcast of the 2025 season from Krunching Gears – The Rally Podcast - is a special episode dedicated to the Formula 2 Kit Car era of the British Rally Championship with Mark Higgins, Neil Simpson, Stephen Whitford, Martin Rowe, Ryan Champion, Howard Davies, Trevor Agnew and Alister McRae. The British Rally Championship Formula 2 era (1994–1999) featured front-wheel-drive, naturally aspir...

On this week’s Krunching Gears – The Rally Podcast – we speak to Rich Millener, Josh McErlean, Eoin Treacy, Sean McHugh and John Coyne about Josh & Eoin joining the M-Sport WRC Team to compete in the Rally1 Puma on all 14 rounds of the 2025 WRC.  Noelle Horan and Rosemary Walsh join us to chat about the recent ‘Women With Drive’ women in motorsport summit that took place recently in Indianapol...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast. Series 3, episode 51. We hear from the 2025 Billy Coleman Award winner Craig Rahill.   We look back at the Killarney Historic Stages Rally, which featured Historic rally winners Donagh Kelly and Rory Kennedy and modified winner Rob Duggan, joined by Declan Gallagher and Andy Hayes.   We catch up with Aaron Johnston and Josh McErlean to relive the final round of...

Krunching Gears – The Rally Podcast, Series 3, Episode 50.  This week, we speak with motorsport journalist Luke Barry about the 2024 WRC season finale in Japan.  We also hear from Anthony O’Connor, the Clerk of the Course for the Killarney Historic Stages Rally.

Series 3, Episode 49—This week on the Krunching Gears—The Rally Podcast. Frank Kelly, who chats about his recent adventures in San Marino, Portugal, and Madeira.  We also speak to Jamie Edwards, the Manager for the FIA European Historic Rally Championship, about recent developments in that championship.   Notice—The KDMC Youth Programme is holding an evening with Paul Nagle, Mikie Galvin, Noel O’S...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast. Series 3, episode 48.   In this week's episode, we talk with Ernie Graham about his silver medal win at the FIA Motorsport Games and his runner-up finish in the FIA European Historic Championship.  Phillip Young & Peter Dowds join us to discuss what it is like to compete again after a 20-year break.   We catch up with Niall Burns to understand the work behi...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast. Series 3, episode 47.   On this week’s episode of Krunching Gears – The Rally Podcast – we look back at the Kerry Winter Stages Rally with winners Richard Moffet & Darragh Kelly.   We speak to Jason & Gareth Black about World Champion Kalle Rovanpera borrowing their Starlet to compete in the upcoming Killarney Historic Stages Rally.   Meirion Evans chat...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast. Series 3, episode 46.   On this week’s Krunching Gears – The Rally Podcast – we catch up with William Creighton to discuss the Cambrian Rally and this year’s British Rally Championship.   We hear from the Rally4 Class competitors on the Cambrian Rally, Aoife Raftery, Ioan Lloyd, Robert Proudlock, Ryan McHugh and Craig Rahill.   Ruthann O’Connor and John Warren...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast. Series 3, episode 45.   In this episode, we talk to Eamonn Kelly & Gordon Noble about their third-place finish on the Sanremo Rally Storico.   Jason Mitchell chats about winning the Maiden City Motor Club’s Dogleap Rally.   Hyundai Motorsport Engineer, Jamie McMillan explains the details of Ott Tanak's win at the Central European Rally and heard from Desi H...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast. Series 3, episode 44.  On this week’s episode of Krunching Gears – The Rally Podcast – we chat to Jon Armstrong & Eoin Treacy about the final round of the ERC in Poland. We look back at the Harvest Rally with Callum Devine, Kevin Eves, Declan Gallagher, Jordan Jervis and James McBrearty.   Josh McErlean joins us to talk about his recent rally adventures and...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast. Series 3, episode 43.   in this week’s episode, we catch up with Irish Tarmac Championship-winning co-driver Mikie Galvin.   We look back at the Clare Forestry Rally by winners Ryan Caldwell and  Stephen O’Hanlon, plus Ioan Lloyd, Keelan Grogan and Craig Rahill: they had a titanic battle for the 2wd win.   CoC for the event, John Crumlish, joins us to look ahea...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast, Series 3, episode 42.  This week’s podcast features Frank & Lauren Kelly, two-wheel drive winners on the Cork 20 and 2024 ITRC Modified champions.  Matt Edwards talks about his 2024 ITRC campaign and brings us up to date on his Suzuki Swift Sport / Harry Hockly Motorsport Junior Championship.  We are joined by Dave Marsh, Head of Motorsport at Bowler, to ch...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast, Series 3 Episode 41.  We talk Bushwhacker Rally, with the event winner Patrick O’Brien, the 2-wheel drive winner on the day and the 2wd championship, Shane McGirr and Forestry Championship winner Derek Mackarel. Cian Donnellan, Forestry Championship PRO joins us to discuss this year’s competition. We look forward to the Cork20 Rally with CoC Kevin O’Riordan.  F...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast - Series 3, episode 40. We talk to Declan, Michael and Matthew Boyle, the Boyle Motorsport family and Jonathan Pringle to look back at the Wexford Stages Rally. Lewis Boyd & Ronnie McAleer from Omagh Motor Club discuss the upcoming Bushwhacker Rally.

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast Series 3, episode 39.  Patrick O’Brien, Derek Mackarel and Denver Rafferty join us to look back at the EMC Lakeland Stages Rally.  We discuss WRC Acropolis Rally Greece with Hyundai’s Jamie McMillan and rally journalist Luke Barry.  We meet Aoife Raftery to discuss her selection for the WRC Women’s Driver Development Programme.   If you wish to donate to Denver'...