Woodside top in Omagh Test Motorweek January 3 1970 – Report and Pictures by Esler Crawford. On the Saturday after Boxing Day (1969), the driving test scene moved West to Omagh where the local club ran their usual Christmas event. The venue was the army camp at Lisanelly where the[Read More…]
Article reproduced from Motorweek April 11, 1970. Report by Richard St. John Young and pictures by Esler Crawford. Images and OCR Text scans cleaned up by Derek Smyth. In last week’s issue, we gave a rather brief rundown on what happened on this year’s “Circuit,” so this week, just to[Read More…]
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…]
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…]
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.
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…]
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…]
