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HOPKIRK HEADS THE PARADE

October 2021

06 October 2021 HOPKIRK HEADS THE PARADE The 1966 Mini Cooper S which Paddy Hopkirk will drive on Déjà vu Donagh Day. Paddy Hopkirk, the Belfast boy who became a world rallying name, will head a parade of eighty historic rally cars on Déjà vu Donagh Day from Donegal Town on Sunday 24th, October. …

NEW DATES FOR DÉJÀ VU MOTORSPORT EVENTS

August 2021

16 August 2021 Covid has once again played havoc with our plans, however we are delighted to announce rescheduling of Déjà vu Ireland West ’22 to September 2022 and two additional events, Dèja vu Tralee in May 2022 and Dèjà vu Cork in September 2023. DÉJÀ VU TRALEE ’22. 27 / 28 May 2022 This…

IT WILL BE WORTH THE WAIT

February 2021

01 February 2021 IT WILL BE WELL WORTH THE WAIT We have published Ivan Furey’s recently completed montage of the Donegal Déjà vu below to remind you of the fun we all had in September 1919 as, unfortunately we have no option but to postpone DÉJÀ VU IRELAND WEST again until 17-18 September, 2021.…

IT WILL RUN

January 2021

19 January 2021 IT WILL RUN Austin MacHale, six-time winner of the Galway International Rally will lead the mighty parade of historic rally cars and other fascinating motors out of Westport this year. Hotel Westport will be the Rally Headquarters. Over one hundred crews will take part and there will be a hundred and thirty…

RPM LOCKDOWN SALE

January 2021

04 January 2021 RPM LOCKDOWN SALE 20% off all individual DVDs and 50% off ‘Hidden Glory’. No rallying, no racing, no car club outings, no cars & coffee, its proving to be a very long and tedious winter! If you’re bored and stuck in the house why no take advantage of RPM’s LOCKDOWN…

2 NEW BOOKS ON RPM

December 2020

21 December 2020 The 164 page 2021 CARSPORT YEARBOOK highlights the Irish drivers and rider who made it big on the international motorsporting stage in a Covid ridden year. Read about Johnathan Rea, Craig Breen, Colin Turkington, Josh McErlean, Wayne Boyd, Dan Harper and Charlie Eastwood, and look back at forty years of the Lurgan…

DONEGAL LEGEND VINCENT BONNER ENTERS DÉJÀ VU

June 2019

16 June 2019 When Vincent Bonner and Seamus McGettigan broadsided their Group 4 Escort through the streets of Letterkenny on the last stage of the 1983 rally the crowds could not contain themselves with joy as they cheered the first Donegal pair to win their own International. That victory triggered the greatest celebrations in the…

THE ‘GENIE’ JOINS THE DÉJÀ VU DONEGAL PARTY

May 2019

20 May 2019 Eugene Donnelly, three time winner of the Donegal International Rally, is the latest of an impressive list of former winners who will be in Donegal at the end of August for Déjà Vu Donegal, the rally reunion party that is surpassing all expectations. “We knew the response in Donegal would be…

DONEGAL RECORD HOLDER JOINS THE DÈJÀ VU PARTY

May 2019

05 May 2019 Andrew Nesbitt, the six-time Donegal International Rally winner, will be in the Parade of Power when the crews leave Jackson’s Hotel at 10.00am on Saturday, 31 August on the 120 mile trip of nostalgia over many of the famous Donegal stages. Andrew’s record breaking run started in 1996 but the writing…

JIMMY MCRAE IS SIXTH WINNER TO CONFIRM DEJA VU DONEGAL

March 2019

26 March 2019 Jimmy McRae, the 1980 Donegal International victor and multiple British and Irish rally champion, is the sixth former Donegal winner who will be attending Déjå Vu Donegal, the massive rally reunion event that will be taking place in the county on the 30-31 August 2019. Jimmy will be reunited with a…

AUSTIN BACK IN HIS BMW

March 2019

05 March 2019 Two time winner of the Donegal International Rally Austin MacHale will be returning to ‘The Hills’ for Déjà vu Donegal on the 30-31 August 2019. The multiple Irish champion will be reunited with his Xtra-vision BMW M3, the car that finally brought him success in the north west in 1990. The Dubliner had encountered…

HOSPICE TO BENEFIT FROM DEJA VU DONEGAL

January 2019

21 January 2019 Déjà Vu Motorsport is bringing another of its rally reunion extravaganzas to the friendliest of all rally lands – Donegal, and the DONEGAL HOSPICE has been chosen as the designated charity. “We are delighted to have been chosen as the beneficiary from this spectacular event which will bring so many former Donegal International Rally…

ULSTER WIND UP

September 2018

04 September 2018 140 Miles with Rallying Legends, 115 cars, 300 Smiles and two happy Charities. That just about sums up Titanic Déjà Vu Ulster 2018 where Walter Rohrl and Paddy Hopkirk led a cavalcade of 115 cars through the Antrim stages. 300 guests smiled at the gala dinner in Titanic Belfast and listened…

SPECIAL AUDI WILL SURPRISE ROHRL ON SELL OUT TITANIC DÉJÀ VU ULSTER

August 2018

28 August 2018 The Audi S1 Quattro that double World Rally Champion Walter Rohrl drove on the 1988 Race of Champions will be on display at Titanic Belfast when he joins the three hundred guests during Titanic Déjà Vu Ulster Gala Dinner on Saturday 1st September. The Audi S1 Quattro that double World Rally…

CO-DRIVERS NAVIGATING THEIR WAY TO TITANIC DEJA VU ULSTER

June 2018

15 June 2018 “The Forgotten,” the co-drivers whose lot is often not a happy one, are coming in their numbers to the great Déjà vu re-union. Co-driving has evolved from primarily reading a map while being driven a high speeds, often in the middle of the night, without becoming sick to reading pace notes at…

NORWEGIAN RALLY ACE JOINS TITANIC DÉJÀ VU ULSTER

May 2018

23 May 2018 John Haughland a former factory Skoda driver will return to Ulster at the end of August to take part Titanic Déjà vu Ulster. John Mulholland, the Skoda dealer in Randalstown is lending John his newly acquired historic rally prepared Skoda 136. There are already 90 entries and as one person remarked…

BOYD BROTHERS JOIN TITANIC DÉJÀ VU ULSTER

May 2018

02 May 2018 Derek and Adrian Boyd, Ireland’s legendary rallying brothers, will be back on familiar special stages when they drive over the Titanic Déjà Vu Ulster route on the 1st September. Derek and Adrian Boyd, Ireland’s legendary rallying brothers, will be back on familiar special stages when they drive over the Titanic Déjà Vu…

TARMAC CHAMPION TAYLOR RETURNS

May 2018

02 May 2018 John Taylor, Ireland’s first Tarmac Rally Champion and the winner of the Ulster International Rally in 1978 will return to take part in Titanic Déjà Vu Ulster this autumn. The former National Hunt jockey turned rallycross and rally driver won the inaugural Tarmac Championship in 1978 in a Mk II Escort and…

ENTERTAINMENT ALL THE WAY AT TITANIC DÉJÀ VU ULSTER

April 2018

16 April 2018 This will truly be a weekend to remember, thanks to the outstanding entertainment offered by the 140-mile road trip and at the Gala Dinner in the Titanic Centre. Rallying superstars, classic cars and some of the Province’s top entertainers will ‘fire up the memories’ at this great rally re-union where rallying legends…

CLASSICS COMING TO TOWN FOR TITANIC DÉJÀ VU ULSTER

April 2018

09 April 2018 Visitors to Belfast at the end of the summer can expect to see a fabulous selection of Historic Rally, Classic, (like Edmond McClean’s 1961 3.8 Mk. II Jaguar pictured) and Supercars assembled on Titanic Slipway for the start of Titanic Déjà Vu Ulster. With just three weeks to go before the…

PORSCHE CENTRE JOINS THE DÉJÀ VU PARTY

March 2018

09 March 2018 The Agnew Group’s spectacular new Porsche Centre in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter will throw open its doors on the 31st. of August to Walter Röhrl and the other entrants at TITANIC DÉJÀ VU ULSTER. “We are delighted to support the arrival of this rallying superstar to our city and we must congratulate the Déjà Vu organiser in…

HOPKIRK PUTS TITANIC DÉJÀ VU ULSTER IN HIS DIARY

February 2018

26 February 2018 Five times Circuit of Ireland Rally winner, Paddy Hopkirk, has confirmed that he will be returning to his native Belfast to take part in Titanic Déjà Vu Ulster on August 31/Sept 1st. It was back in 1958 when Paddy and Jack Scott took their Triumph TR3 to Paddy’s first Circuit victory, and…

RÖHRL RETURNS TO ULSTER

January 2018

25 January 2018 Walter Röhrl, the German driver voted ‘Rally Driver of the Millennium’ and called ‘A Genius on Wheels’ by Niki Lauda, will return to the scene of his dominant win in the 1984 Ulster International Rally. The occasion is TITANIC ULSTER Déjà Vu, another of Déjà Vu Motorsport’s popular rally reunions in aid of charity which…