Mooney Magnificent at May Targa Report by Grace Campbell Photos by Derek Smyth Current NI Autotest Champion Paul Mooney partnered by Jason Bell showed that he has the skills to win on a Targa Rally in Vauxhall Nova, as well as in his Mini Special at an Autotest and were[Read More…]

Woodside Returns to Winning Ways at Springfling Targa. (By Grace Campbell) Despite their massive popularity, only one Mazda MX- 5 made it into the top five on Dungannon Motor Club’s annual Springfling Targa Rally, sponsored by Donnelly Group.  Now widely regarded as one of the best events of this type,[Read More…]

Stewartstown’s Steven Ferguson took the win at the JRS sponsored DMC autotest at Loughry College on Saturday.  Reigning NI Autotest Champion Paul Mooney was fastest on Test 1, with Ferguson only 0.5 seconds behind him but by the end of three tests, Ferguson was in the lead, and there he[Read More…]

Mooney The Targa Dominator! Damien Mooney and his navigator Tony Anderson pulled off a totally dominant performance at the Ballynahinch Autumn Lanes Targa Rally on 11th November.  Driving his usual Citroen Saxo, he set the fastest time on the first test and then led the event all the way to[Read More…]

MOONEY TAKES LOUGHGALL TARGA After winning the Dungannon Motor Club Moonraker Rally a few weeks ago, Damien Mooney and Tony Anderson showed that they can do it on Targa Rally as well and were delighted winners at the North Armagh Ballylisk Car Sales Rally in Loughgall.  Monsoon rain through the[Read More…]

Tyrone’s Mooney Helps N.I. Team to another Ken Wharton Success. Reigning Northern Ireland Autotest Champion, Paul Mooney, helped the Northern Ireland team to yet another win at the 2017 Ken Wharton Memorial Autotest Competition.  He didn’t make it easy for himself though, with a pylon fault on the very first[Read More…]

Trevor Tops Tyrones on Targa Tests (Photos by Leslie McMullan and Raymond Brown) There may only have been twelve hours of daylight last Saturday, but there were sixteen minutes of Targa Tests on offer at the Ulster Automobile Club’s Equinox Targa Rally.  Moneyreagh’s Matthew Mason, partnered by Will Corry, drove[Read More…]

Mooney’s Magnificent Moonraker. It was appropriate that there was a new moon last Friday night as 30 crews headed out on Dungannon Motor Club’s flagship navigation rally, the Moonraker.  With no help from the moonlight, crews tackled four regularity sections in Tyrone’s dark and narrow lanes and four special tests[Read More…]

Patterson Masterclass at Cookstown A29 Targa Dungannon’s Eric Patterson, partnered as usual by Raymond Donaldson, put in a dominating display of Targa Rally driving at the Cookstown Motor Club Targa Rally at the weekend.  Fastest on the first test was Stewartstown Legend, Norman Ferguson, but Patterson took that lead from[Read More…]

On a day of diabolical weather, with unbelievably heavy rain, low cloud, and only the occasional  blink of sunshine, eighty crews tacked 20 Targa Tests on the East side of the Province.  The Larne Motor Club had set themselves a big challenge involving changing tests around during the day, and[Read More…]