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BUGGY BEATS THE REST After a week of scorching weather, Dungannon Motor Club had to contend with roaming thunderstorms at their Carling Black Label Autocross, held on Wednesday, June 10th. This was, of course, the first round of the Ulster Autocross Championship, and as such created quite a lot of[Read More…]
Quite a few Northern competitors ventured down South for the Leinster M.C.’s “Hellfire” rally run over a “traditional” navigation cum special stage route on half-inch maps.
The newly instituted Northern Ireland Autocross Championship looks like being a very closely fought and exciting affair.
First published in MOTORWEEK on June 14 1969 Report and Pictures by Richard St. John Young AUTOCROSS OFF TO A GOOD START On Wednesday last, the Dungannon Motor Club started the Autocross ball rolling with a very slickly organised event at Cookstown, over what must have been one of the[Read More…]
Motorweek – September 3 1970 WEE MERVYN WINS AGAIN by Peter Scott. [Photographs shown here were not with the original article (copy not good enough to scan) but most have been provided by Bryce Sands from his personal archive.] Dungannon Motor Club’s Moonraker Rally 1970 was one of the greatest[Read More…]
Local Crews Dominate Snowdrop Rally Friday the 4th March saw the first round of the 1983 Dungannon Motor Club Rally Championship when forty-four crews turned up to tackle the Snowdrop Rally. Ken Colbert and Alistair Donaldson, the reigning club champions, led the field away from the start area at Magowan’s[Read More…]
Reprint of a Tyrone Courier report by Jarlath Hughes, published on 22nd September 1982. Ken Colbert and Allister Donaldson asserted their authority on Friday night by winning the Moonraker Rally, and in the process clinching the Dungannon Motor Club Road Rally Championship. After the first two rounds earlier in the[Read More…]
RALLYBOY MOONRAKES ! A re-print of a report in 1967 by Ronnie Trouton. The Dungannon Motor Club Ltd. held their event to count towards the 1967 Ulster Rally Championship on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd September 1967. The restricted rally covered 292 miles of straightforward navigation with no ticks, on[Read More…]
Dungannon Motor Club – The Beginnings (Up to 1970) The Club was formed at a meeting of interested parties in the Castle Cafe, Dungannon, on Thursday 25 March 1954, with James Shiells as Chairman and J.C.W. Simpson as Honorary Secretary. At this meeting, a committee was chosen to draw up[Read More…]
