Lottery Winner is First to Register for Rally Ireland 2009

What would you do if you won the lottery?  Go on a nice vacation, buy a new car maybe?  How about enter in a professional rally?  That’s what Ken Treacy did.  Ken was part of a lottery pool at the Dan Morrisey Concrete Company in Corlow, Ireland.  The group of 16 won 25 million dollars in the Irish lottery, the largest payout in the lottery’s history, and with each of them walking away with a cool 1.5 mil we would have to say they did pretty well.

Ken has been racing rally cars for the last 10 years and after a sudden financial boost he was first in line to sign up for Rally Ireland, literally, he was the first person to register!  What car is he driving might you ask?  Well a Volkswagen of course, a polo to be more specific.

So this makes us wonder, what would you do if an extra 1.5 million dollars suddenly found it’s way into you bank account?

Source: WRC.com





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