This report is a combination of two newspaper articles, pieced together to make a single story! Seventy Compete in Moonraker Rally Dungannon Motor Club’s Moonraker Rally, the fourth round of the 1979 Northern Ireland Road Rally Championship, got underway despite worries that fuel shortages would impact the event. Despite that,[Read More…]
Fred Wins after last event drama. This report appeared in Belfast Telegraph on 22 February 1979. In a dramatic last-event turnaround, Fred Crawford, navigated by Drew Todd, came from behind to win the Universities Road Rally Championship. Crawford had been in third place after the first three rounds but victory[Read More…]
Drama in Ireland as Kidney snatches win. Ernest Kidney and Nicky Moffett snatched a dramatic last stage win on Newry & District Motor Club’s Mourne Forests Rally on Saturday. This was the second round of the 1979 Goodyear Belfast Telegraph Ulster Stage Rally Championship and followed the newly devised format[Read More…]
