Well-known Irish rally engineer Philip Case is set to make his competitive rally debut next weekend on the Fastnet Rally, despite decades embedded in the sport behind the scenes.
Case’s rallying experience stretches back to his early days as an M-Sport WRC mechanic, and he has since worked with some of Ireland’s top drivers. In his current role as team principal with PCRS Rallysport, Case has looked after drivers including WRC star Josh McErlean and John Coyne, founder of the Motorsport Ireland Rally Academy, on events both at home in Europe and the USA.
“I am really looking forward to my first stages rally,” Case said. “My brother won the opening round of the Dacia Sandero Challenge navigating for Jack Newman, and he planted the seed in my head that this would be a good bit of fun to do. From there I was watching my work calendar to see if any of the rounds were available, and as it turned out the Fastnet was possible. I really like the Fastnet rally, with its famously technical stages and the challenge of the coastal weather.”
Case recently completed his Motorsport Ireland licence course, with support from Rally-Connection, and will be navigated by Corentin Silvestre from France. Silvestre, the usual co-driver of 2024 Turkish Rally Champion and Junior WRC regular Kerem Kazaz, will compete on Irish stages for the first time, reading pacenotes prepared by Killian Duffy.
PCRS run Kazaz in European and Turkish events.
“I must say a special word of thanks to my main sponsors for the weekend, Enda McCormack of McCormack Construction New York and Tommy Doyle of Doyle Construction Longford,” Case added.
While its Phillip’s first rally his brother Jeff Case is also approaching a milestone, with his 100th rally as a co-driver coming up next week.
More on that story will follow, but there will be a Kerry connection!
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