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GPS tracking for races and adventures

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Date: December 29, 2008 Author: Barry Cronin

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We are always interested in Tracking cool stuff. Over the last couple of years we have been lucky enough to track a few different people in races they have undertaken.

We started by tracking a great company based in Scotland, UKDVDR to provide them with live tracking during the 2006 Cannonball 8000 event. Cannonball 8000 is Europes premier non-professional rally event covering 5 countries in 72 hours and UKDVDRentered it to help a great charity.

"UKDVDR may be an internet based company but we are in the real world when it comes to children. We wanted to do something to raise money for a needy Charity for a while now. Our directors were too squeamish to do sponsored parachute jumps. So, after much contemplation we have decided to enter the  Cannonball Rally." 

We also sponsored them in their race in 2007 where they came in overall first place. Even though it's technically a rally and not a race, everyone aims for high placings so they claimed the title of 2007 overall winners driving a Mercedes CLS320.

At the start of 2008 we tracked Gary Finlay and his team, "The sewing club" in their adventure to Timbuktu in 2007/2008. We are also currently sponsoring one of our clients, Barry Rabbit, he is racing in two disciplines. Firstly he is in the newly formed Irish Saloon car championship for a team. The car he is driving is a Honda Integra Type R, the team who own and run the car are in the car tuning business.

The other car he is driving is his own Formula Ford, a single seater racecar. He is competing in this in the Irish Formula Ford championship along with a number of high profile events in the UK. For 2008 Barry has raced in 5 races, out of a planned 7, with a fantastic result of 1st place in four of the races and 4th in the other race. Barry's season was cut short due to a broken leg so we wish him all the best on his recovery. 

Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash

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