Fassbender to document taking part in Le Mans 24-Hour Endurance Race in June

MICHAEL Fassbender has set a target of competing in the Le Mans 24-Hour endurance race next June and will document his effort on a YouTube video series.

Road to Le Mans began streaming last Friday and will run weekly until he races at the famous French event. The series will follow the local Hollywood A-lister while he competes on entry-level Porsche Carrera Cup Races in Germany, and bigger and longer endurance races throughout Europe.

Footage of his participation in this year’s cartell.ie Rally of the Lakes will also feature. He contested the RallyFest element of the Rally of the Lakes earlier this year.

“I’ve just always felt drawn to going fast into a corner and fast out and just naturally felt connected to it – and now I want to go to the ultimate place,” he said. “I think it’s the history of the place, I think it’s the drivers that crashed there, competed there, won there.”

Prior to his season racing for Porsche, Fassbender took part in the Ferrari Challenge series in America where he took five podiums and one win in the 11 races he entered.

BELGIUM RALLYING

LONDON-BASED Killarney man, Mick Smith will contest this Sunday’s Hemicuda Rally in Belgium in his historic-spec Chrysler Avenger. The car made its debut on the Rally of the Lakes in May and Smith is contesting this weekend’s penultimate round of the Flanders International Rally Challenge in an effort to get more miles under his belt ahead of planned outing on the Rentokil Initial Killarney Historic Rally next month.

DONEGAL HARVEST RALLY

THERE was a massive Kerry contingent competing in last Saturday’s Donegal Rally. Ger Conway was the best of the locals on the event, guiding Kevin Gallagher to sixth overall in a Darrian T90.

Damien Fleming was alongside Raymond Conlon in a Toyota Corolla and they finished 12th overall and won class 13. John McCarthy was third in this class alongside Peter Wilson in a Ford Escort. Bob Moran and Elaine Ní Shé were the only all Kerry crew to make the finish in their Escort, they came home in 71st position. Dave Slattery and Denis Coffey retired their Escort after five stages. The same stage claimed Ger Somers who was co-driving Raymond Spence in another Escort.