RALLY fans are set to be glued to their screens tonight as the last instalment of a documentary about the Donegal Rally reaches its thrilling finale.
Four-part Irish-language film TG4 Taobh Thiar den Roth – Donegal International Rally – has aired over the past month, picking up critical reviews.
Tonight’s action unfolds at breakneck speed as the pace of the film hits max power with the winning cars racing to the finish line.
Breathtaking aerial footage captures the race cars careering around hairpin bends of the Atlantic Drive.
Rally organisers like Suzanne McCafferty, who is described by producers as a “driving organisational force behind the event”, are captured working behind the scenes at Letterkenny’s Mount Errigal Hotel.
Award-winning producer Sonia Nic Giolla Easbuig has revealed that the series has already garnered international acclaim.
TV producer Sonia Nic Giolla Easbuig of LIGID Léiriúcháin Teo with her crew for TG4 documentary Taobh Thiar den Roth – Donegal International Rally.
She told the Donegal News: “We are getting fabulous feedback from all around the world in the series.
“We are looking forward to filming the second series this year.”
Sonia of production company LIGID Léiriúcháin Teo previously insisted that the show is not about young people doing donuts on public roads.
She said: “I think some people, when they think of the rally, they think of young people doing donuts and that kind of thing.”
The series gives viewers a rare insight into one of Europe’s most famous rallies and gives access to the drivers, co-drivers, mechanics, and safety crews.
Donegal’s breathtaking landscape is captured in the documentary along with the raw energy and adrenaline that powers the event which attracts over 70,000 spectators and around 400,000 viewers annually on TV and online.
A second series has been commissioned and is to be shot at this year’s Donegal International Rally that is due to run from Friday, June 19, to Sunday, June 21.
Taobh Thiar den Roth – Donegal International Rally is to be broadcast tonight (Thursday) on TG4 from 8pm.