CURLEY AGAIN ON TEXACO RALLY Cahal Curley took his BMW 2002 Ti to his fourth successive win on July 1, 1972 when, with Austin Frazer, he won the Larne Motor Club’s RAC Championship Texaco Rally by nearly two minutes from the RS1600 of Sean Campbell and Brendan McConville. With this[Read More…]
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…]
Mid-Antrim M.C. NORTHERN LIGHTS RALLYReport by Esler Crawford This report is reproduced from Wheel Magazine – March/April 1967 Restricted Rallies in Ulster continue to be on the up and up, while the trend is away from the smaller 50-100 mile events. This is probably due to a combination of four[Read More…]
R. A. Hopkinson’s Triumph Toughest Circuit of Ireland Trial Ever – TC M.G. Driver wins six awards – Many Veterans Retire. This report is reproduced from Autosport Magazine April 6th 1951. The U.A.C.’s Circuit of Ireland Trial, now in its 20th year, was this Easter voted the toughest yet. Of[Read More…]
Volkswagens Win The Circuit of Ireland
A REVIEW OF THE 1963/64 NORTHERN RALLY SCENE This report is reproduced from Irish Motor and Watersport Vol12 No3 1964. ALTHOUGH hard to pin-point, September is the generally accepted start of the rally season. Thus it was the comparatively young, but exceedingly energetic Dungannon M.C. which started the wheel rolling[Read More…]
THE ULSTER AUTOMOBILE CLUB’S SPRING RALLY This report is reproduced from Irish Motor & Water Sport Magazine Vol5 No2 IN THE WET A steady unceasing drizzle descended throughout the U.A.C.’s Spring Rally, their last event before the International Circuit of Ireland Rally. It was held on 13th March 1965 with[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 reproduced from Carsport, 1984 Convincing win for Pat Kirk Report by Rory Kennedy. Pat Kirk and Paul Foley took their Autotune Nissan 240RS to yet another convincing win in the recently held Maiden City Motor Club, Roadside Motor’s Stage Rally in Limavady. Despite a somewhat under-subscribed entry, Paul[Read More…]
