GLITTERING TALENT FROM THE EMERALD ISLE

There is something you might have noticed when looking around junior and national race categories at the moment. There are plenty of up-and-coming drivers from Ireland, with plenty of talent among their number.

Motorsport News has selected three of the best of them to explore in more detail, and even that was a challenge as we can also give honourable mentions to – by no means exhaustively – Britcar racers Nicole Drought and Sean Doyle, TCR pilot Max Hart,Aston Martin factory driver Charlie Eastwood as well as Formula Ford blue riband event winners Jordan Dempsey and Jonathan Browne.

And here are the tales of MN’s selected trio and what they plan next.

ALYX COBY

TEENAGE KART STAR TARGETING W SERIES

“Everyone always knew at some stage I was going to end up being a driver,” Alyx Coby tells Motorsport News. Little wonder. Her father and uncle both competed in karting plus ran a karting team, both with success.And Coby’s racing introduction could hardly have been