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Article reproduced from Motorweek (Date unknown) Cahal Curley – Very Near The Top Last Saturday’s Scallon Cup win for Cahal Curley and Austin Frazer puts this popular pair in a firm lead in this year’s Ulster Rally Championship, while at the same time underlining the fact that Cahal must now[Read More…]
Meeke Brothers Lead the Field Dungannon Motor Club’s Auto-Supplies Moonraker Rally, held on Friday night, was won easily by Sydney and Stanley Meeke from the Bush, near Dungannon in their Ford Escort RS1600, entered and serviced by J.E. Coulter Ltd., the Belfast Ford Rallye Sport dealers. Other Local crews also[Read More…]
Reproduced from MOTOR week ending May 1st 1976 1976 Motor/RAC Rally Championship Round 5 Circuit of Ireland Coleman Regains Form AFTER NEARLY a year of talented but inconsistent driving, Billy Coleman again pulled out all the stops this Easter to win the Benson and Hedges Circuit of Ireland for the[Read More…]
DONEGAL INTERNATIONAL RALLY 1975 Report by David Hardcastle from MOTOR, week ending July 5th 1975 Article photographs by Colin Taylor Productions, and additional pictures from Bryce Sands’ collection. Warmbold Wins “I am not going to go mad – biting at the steering wheel – trying to catch the Porsches. I[Read More…]
Article reproduced from Irish Wheel Magazine, November 1972. Report by Peter Scott. Although the Championship navigation rallies have been cancelled for obvious reasons, the closed rallies are still continuing and in the middle of September the Cookstown boys ran their ‘Nutcracker’ Rally. Few crews had a steady run, and eventual winners[Read More…]
Report by Brian Foley, reprinted from Wheel Magazine, July 1966 Linehan Wins Tostal Again The MOTOR ENTHUSIASTS CLUB had the usual big gathering of drivers from all over Ireland for their Annual Tostal Trial, postponed from June 11th to June 25th 1966. The start this year was moved from Dun[Read More…]
AER LINGUS CASTROL-WEXFORD RALLY 1973 (Article by Paul Phelan reprinted from Auto Ireland Magazine, October 1973) The Aer Lingus/Castrol Wexford Stages Rally, has fast become one of the major rallies of the year. The entry, at 109, was good, and the 96 of these who started were whittled down to[Read More…]
Article scanned from the the Isle of Man Weekly Times Special Edition – MANX TROPHY RALLY – published on Saturday 11th September 1971. Clark wins in the first Manx International [The Manx Trophy Rally was first run in May 1963 as a restricted event under the auspices of Manx Automobile[Read More…]
FROM A TINY ACORN TO A MIGHTY OAK IN NINE MONTHS (Report by Doug Baird, first published in the Trophy Rally Special, Saturday, 11th September, 1971.) This is the story of the transition the Manx Trophy Rally has made from it’s humblest beginning as a Restricted Rally in May 1963,[Read More…]
Report by Des Bradley which appeared in the Irish Times on 2 December 1974 Forde and Phelan take Midlands rally title. GERRY FORDE and Paul Phelan gave Porsche their first championship rally win when they scored a narrow one-minute victory in the Smithwicks Circuit of the Midlands which finished in Longford[Read More…]
