2005 National Rally Champion Paul Bird returns to the place where his successful campaign got underway twelve months ago, when he contests the Rally Sunseeker based in Bournemouth next weekend.
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Having sold his championship-winning Ford Focus WRC, Bird, along with co driver Ian Windress from Northallerton, has resorted to Subaru power for Rallye Sunseeker and will take to the wheel of an Impreza WRC owned by Irishman Derek McGarrity for the two day event:
“It’s been an ambition of mine for a while now to drive a late model Subaru WRC and I’m really excited about the prospect. Steve Smith at Prodrive was very keen to get me in one of their cars and Derek has come up with the goods and the deal we have done means I can use one of his cars on whatever events I want.”