 Well, in the latest installment of our preview of the Donegal International Rally, I'm delighted to say that we've got the defending champion joining us now from County Monaghan, not of course it's Josh Moffat. Josh, good to see you and good to talk to you. Yes, same to you. It's just over a year since I was in the studio there with you. So, yeah, look at the, we're looking forward to this weekend again in Donegal. What's the year been like for you then? Donegal champion obviously 12 months ago. You won the Tarmac Championship last year, you won the National Championship alongside of course your main man, Andy Hayes. So it was a fantastic 2022 for you when you're carrying all them titles and all those accolades around, Josh? I certainly was, I suppose, with unbelievable year last year. And it was no easy road to that, like the competition was high and yeah, look at the year just worked out for us very well. And I suppose we're trying to continue that this year and it's been tough. I suppose the results to date probably not as good, but we're still leading both championships there at the minute. So it's still been good to us all the same. Yeah. If we recap to Donegal 2022, it was fantastic at the end of the day, the Sunday. It was a long marathon event and there was a big battle at the front. Was that the highlight of your rallying career, Josh? Oh, it probably, it definitely has to be one of them, like if not the number one. Yeah, I'd say you're probably right there. It probably has been the highlight, yeah. Yeah. And there was fantastic scenes at the finish ramp and obviously your family and Sam was there as well. Sam's done this a number of occasions. So it was a big thing for you personally to do it, to sort of emulate what he has done. Yeah, I suppose that Sam's won the event twice now and probably going into even like before starting last year, I sort of wondered would I ever win the rally, you know? And because it is a challenge and it's a long three days and I suppose you need to be on the pace, but you also need to be there at the end of it to get the win. So yeah, look at it to finally get one. It's been great. Is there any pressure on you now with number one on the door in Donegal? I suppose time will tell and I'll probably know better Friday morning, but I ran number one on the road so many times. So I suppose it's nothing new to me apart from going into Donegal with being number one on the door, but it certainly looks good to have number one on the side of the car anyway. Yeah, definitely does and in particular for Donegal. But listen, you know yourself of these boys that are around you and the rest of the seated positions, you've got the likes of Miriam, obviously Callum Devine who's having a big tussle with you in the Irish Tarmac Championship at the minute and then you're going to throw into the mix somebody like Matt Edwards. So there's real quality here. Yeah, like everybody in the top 10, I would say at some stage over the weekend, we'll put in a faster stage time. As I said, like even everybody in the top 10 really wants to win this rally and will put all efforts they have to try and do that. So look, it's going to be a challenge in the weekend. Obviously, we want to win the rally, but so do so many other people. So it's certainly not going to be easy. Do you have to be on it from the get going Friday? Or how do you manage these three days? Yeah, look, I suppose we're just going to take it in our stride and see how it goes first. Obviously, the rally is not going to be one on Friday or Saturday. It's only one after the final stage on Sunday. So I suppose it's about managing that and look, it's a tough one. It certainly is. You can't get too far away or you won't get there either. But it's just about being there, thereabouts and then making a big push in the end, I think. I know we've been talking to several different drivers over the past week about what their favourite stage is and they vary from Knock-Alla to the returning Gary Gort, which is coming back this year. What's the one that's going to stand out for you, the one that sticks in your head, Josh, that you look forward to the most here in Donegal? Okay, I think all the stages are good to be fair. I enjoy them all. Gary Gort is a bit different this year and I don't really recognise it that much. Obviously, Friday stages are new. I think the new stages that nobody's done, I don't know anybody who has done them. I think maybe some of them ran 15-odd years ago. I think the new stages will bring a new challenge and it'll be good. Obviously, the likes of Knock-Alla and all those stages are always very good and it's nice to be queued up there and take off of the hill. Are you content with how the year is going so far, Josh? You're leading the Tarmac Championship, you've taken the lead in the national as well and now you're going on to Donegal to say the number one. Are you content with where you're at at the minute? Because it's really difficult to do things consecutive years, so it is. Okay, it is. I think whenever it's going for you, it's going and I suppose just trying to continue on where we left off last year, it's probably easier than the likes of taking a year out where you lose a lot of seat time. I think that sort of happened. Sam there where he didn't do much rallying last year and now he's trying to catch up, but I suppose Donegal's always been quite good to Sam and he really enjoys the rally, so I'm sure he's going to be on a big push again this year. The year's been going good for us in general and looking forward to continuing that hopefully. Is there confidence then with you and Andy that you can do it again this year in Donegal? Yeah, look it's just you have to be confident I suppose. You have to be confident, but you need to be like you need to know the challenges out there and it's not going to come easy, so you need to be on it and aware of that. Okay, well listen we look forward to you and Andy, the number one on the door on the Friday at the start ramp, heading off to South Donegal for the new stages because it's a big weekend Donegal sport and it's going to be headed up by Josh Moffatt after what you done last year. We wish you and Andy every success over the weekend and we'll be talking to you on Friday Josh. Yeah, no thank you very much and we're going to have both cars at Diverse High Andy in Latter-Kinney on Thursday afternoon if anybody wants to call in and see them. Okay, we'll do, good man, thanks Josh. Thank you very much.