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Galway Motor Club announces new Summer Rally sponsor
Galway Motor Club, organisers of the Galway Summer Rally, are delighted to announce that The Carlton Shearwater Hotel, Ballinasloe in association with Ballinasloe Town will be the new title sponsors of the 2013 Galway Summer Stages Rally. Michelle Ryan, Marketing Manager of The Carlton commented ?We are delighted along with Ballinasloe Town to be the [...]
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RAM RACING AIMING FOR VICTORY IN IMOLA
The second round of the European Le Mans Series takes place this coming weekend at the Italian circuit at Imola near Bologna, home of the former San Marino F1 Grand Prix. Planning to feature strongly among the nine Ferrari 458 Italias due to race at the 3 Hours of Imola are Ram Racing?s two gleaming [...]
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Crossle at Cultra
The Cultra Hillclimb is staged at one of the oldest motorsport venues in the world and takes place on Saturday 1 June and local racing car constructor Crossle has a long association with the event. Based close by they are inviting customers past, present and potential to join with them at Cultra Manor where there [...]
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Deane Dominates Mayo Autocross
The first Mayo & District Motorsport Club Autocross of the year took place on Sunday. Derek Deane from Williamstown won the event in his JB Buggy, continuing his great form from last year that saw him crowned the 2012 Frank Harrington Challenge Champion. Second home was Ian Barrett from Maynooth, with another member of the [...]
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ALMC Stages Rally 2013 Entries Now Open
Entries for the 2013 ALMC Stages Rally which takes place on Sunday 7th July are now open with full regulations for the event available from the club. This year?s stages rally marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the ALMC Motor Club and will for this year?s rally move to a new headquarters at [...]
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Cultra Brings Another Famous Car ?Home?
For the third year in succession the Thoroughbred Sports Car Club, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum partnership have secured the appearance of yet another significant Northern Ireland race car for their 2013 Cultra Hillclimb Event. Sixty-two years after Cultra-born Desmond Titterington took delivery of his ‘Festival of Britain’ Allard J2 (OZ4444), Somerset man Chris Pring [...]
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Macaulay Dominates In The Wet
After outqualifying the entire grid by over one second, Adam Macaulay took his first ever win by dominating Round 3 of the Crowne Plaza National Formula Vee Championship at a damp Bishopscourt. Despite a brief challenge at the first corner by the fast starting Kevin Grogan, Macaulay in his Newsome Racing assisted Sheane pulled out [...]
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Double podium for Murray at Bishopscourt
Niall Murray approached Bishopscourt confident of a strong weekend for rounds two and three of the All Ireland Formula Ford Championship. After an encouraging performance in the official pre-event test, Murray was aiming for at least one race win and to leave the weekend second in the championship. The weekend would not start out so [...]
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Status GP squad shows improved form in second Barcelona GP3 Series race
Status Grand Prix made headway with all-important tyre management in the second race of the GP3 Series season opener at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona. At this, the first GP3 race weekend with the brand-new, 400bhp, second-generation cars, all the teams found it a big challenge to maintain tyre performance throughout the races thanks [...]
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Back to Bishopscourt- with Sean Doyle
After a year break of being at the fabulous Bishopscourt race circuit it was again time to head up to the Co.Down circuit. I headed up Friday afternoon in my Nissan Juke supplied by Nissan Ireland (very economical- the 1.5dci Puredrive engine is brilliant.) On Saturday morning we had two 15 minutes sessions to get [...]
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