I WAS delighted to get the opportunity to represent Ireland in the Fegentri Series and I took part in my first race in Dusseldorf last weekend.

Much of the work in organising the trip was done by Susan Leahy, who has worked with the series for many years and who competed in the competition in the past. Susan deserves a lot of credit for all the work she puts in and made my passage to Germany very seamless. On arriving at the racecourse, eventually having broken down a language barrier with an unfortunate taxi driver, I found the course to be nestled in a large park surrounded by trees, the track a right-handed tight circuit not unlike Ballinrobe.