The Autotest Drivers Club have found the perfect format for multi-venue events, and the fourth running of the Lee Lucas Classic Trial, sponsored by Reid Engineering Cookstown, ran without fault.  Based at the Glenavon Hotel, sixty crews tackled eight tests, three times each, in what would become a brilliant display[Read More…]

PATTERSON SOARS TO THE TOP OF THE SLATE Dungannon Rally Star Eric Patterson, accompanied as usual by Raymond Donaldson, took yet another win at the Slate Fuels Targa Rally held in Cookstown in their trusty Mazda MX5. Many of the front runners fell foul of the pylons early on in[Read More…]

Evans Aces Donnelly Spring Fling Targa Rally. This time last year, Christopher Evans was one of the unlucky ones on the reserve list for the Dungannon Motor Club Spring Fling Rally, but he made no mistake this year.  On the 2017 Donnelly Group sponsored event he and navigator Kevin Fagan[Read More…]

Burns On Fire With Second Win! For the second navigation rally in a row, David Burns and Conor Murphy emerged as winners at the Souse Development event run by Cookstown Motor Club in their Ford Fiesta.  In second place were Stewartstown’s Sean Devlin and Davy Johnston in a Toyota MR2,[Read More…]

In a dazzling display of driving, Robert Woodside Jr and navigator Bruce Drummond won the Circuit of Ulster Targa Rally, this being their first time out in a Toyota MR2.  Woodside led the rally from start to finish, setting the quickest time on 5 of the 16 tests, and ending[Read More…]

Paul Mooney is the JRS Star.     Reigning NI Autotest Champion Paul Mooney won the JRS Sponsored DMC Autotest at Loughry College on Saturday.  Fast away on Test 1 was Ashley Lamont, with 2015 Champion Paul Blair only 0.3 seconds behind him but by the end of three tests,[Read More…]

Burns Night At Snowdrop Rally. David Burns and Connor Murphy ran a perfect rally at the Hobson Electronics Snowdrop on Friday night.  The challenge for every rally crew is to avoid penalties, and that is just what this beginner pair did in their Ford Fiesta.  Zero penalties, and first place[Read More…]

On a very wet night, veteran campaigner Benny Grainger with David Howard on the maps steered his immaculate Mini Cooper to a dominant win on the Elite Tyres and Service Erne Safari Rally.  In absolutely atrocious conditions, not unlike that other Safari Rally [in East Africa], the Mini crew hardly put a[Read More…]

DMC Want Snowdrops – Not Raindrops!   The 2017 night navigation rally season got under way with the Erne Safari rally at Irvinestown on Friday night and competitors had to cope with rain all night.  A great turnout by modern standards, 28 crews, tackled ten competitive sections in the Trillick[Read More…]

Byrne Takes Tyrone Targa Win after Tie Decider. Forty seven crews showed up at Gortin Community Centre for the last-but-one Targa Rally of the year.  Omagh Motor Club had prepared an interesting event with a mix of tests and regularity for their first Targa event, and despite a few teething[Read More…]