Boreen Rally to Mini from Maxi. ROUND 5 of the 1969/70 Eire Rally Championship, the Boreen R-ally, aptly named after the ancient Irish description of an unsurfaced and rough lane, was co-organised on January 24/25 by the Dublin University and Trials Drivers’ clubs. Championship leaders Noel Smith/Ricky Foott and runners-up[Read More…]
Report from Eire by Brian Foley. This report was first published in Autosport Magazine, January 28 1966 AFTER the first three rounds of the new Rally Championship, Ford Cortina G.T. driver Jim O’Brien of Athlone is still in the lead with 33 points. Fellow Ford driver Brian Kehoe of Carlow[Read More…]
Volkswagen wins in Ulster This report is reproduced from Autosport Magazine, October 18, 1968 ROBERT McBURNEY has won the Ulster Rally Championship five times on the strength of a high degree of reliability coupled with good driving. This year McBurney has been driving better than ever but his VW-Porsche has[Read More…]
Colbert and Beatty take Little Circuit. This report is from the scrapbook of Eric Hamilton. Original source unknown. Photos are from the Bryce Sands collection. Last Wednesday night saw Queens University Motor Club promote their annual and very popular half-night “Little Circuit Rally 81”. The event started from Banbridge and[Read More…]
1982 Omagh Pre-Circuit Rally report from Eric Hamilton’s scrapbook. Original report source is unknown. Photos by David Smyth. O’Kane and Crawford take 1982 Championship Lead. Omagh Motor Club’s Pre-Circuit Rally was won last night by local crew Kevin O’Kane and Godfrey Crawford driving an Avenger. O’Kane finished with a comfortable[Read More…]
Dessie McCartney and Terry Harryman take the win amid timing controversies with sealed watches.
19 FELL BY THE WAYSIDE! Only 20 competitors out of 39 starters finished the Omagh Motor Club’s Scallon Cup Rally on Friday night, the final event in the Club’s motorsport season. The fact that 19 worthy competitors succumbed to the conditions, and the final make-up of the results, made it[Read More…]
PRE-CIRCUIT RALLY 1968 Report by P.J. Winters as published in Rallyboy April 1968. Omagh Motor Club’s Pre-Circuit Rally attracted an entry of 40 cars, 10 of which were in the Experts class, 8 in Semi-Experts, and the remainder in the Novice Class. Unfortunately, four were unable to take their place[Read More…]
Gerry’s one-off victory for the 1300s The little Honda Civic of Gerry McGarrity and Derek Irvine became the first car from the new 1300cc class to take the championship – and it comes as no surprise to find that Gerry’s uncle, Patsy, is a director of the N.I. Honda distributors,[Read More…]
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…]
