Donagh Kelly & Conor Foley in a Focus WRC took victory in the Cartell.ie International Rally of the Lakes when they had 50 seconds to spare over the Impreza WRC of Robert Barrable & Damien Connolly after two days and sixteen stages around Killarney and the Beara Peninsula. Kelly led from start to finish [...]
The Northern Ireland Motor Club has confirmed that the Ulster Rally will take place on August 14 and 15, 2015. Club chairman, Alan Elliot, announced next year's dates at a volunteers' event, saying: “Moving forward to 2015, and with support from Fermanagh District Council and our main sponsor, Todds Leap, the Ulster Rally will return [...]
Photo by Fergus McAnallen... Following the Circuit of Ireland Rally this past weekend, Sam Moffett provisionally leads the Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Rally Championship after three rounds on 40 points. Sam’s fourth place finish on the International section of the rally was enough to move him ahead of Donagh Kelly who didn’t start the [...]
Photo by Wayne Turkington... The third round of the 2015 MSA ANICC McGrady Insurance MSA Northern Ireland Rally Championship took place on the Circuit of Ireland National Rally, eighteen stages over some of the finest roads in County Down and Antrim. This was the big one as the Nationals ran behind the European Championship’s [...]
Photo by Roy Dempster... Rob Duggan won the second round of the Carryduff Forklift R2 Wales competition – the Discover Northern Ireland Circuit of Ireland Rally – to move to the top of the drivers’ standings. Duggan was consistently fast during both days of the event and rarely put a wheel wrong to take [...]
Photo by Ger Leahy... Donagh Kelly & Kevin Flanagan made it back to back wins in the Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Rally Championship when they took victory by almost 70 seconds on the Quality Hotel Clonakilty West Cork Rally. The event which was the second round of the championship saw Kelly in his Focus [...]
Photo by Wayne Turkington... The second round of the 2015 MSA ANICC McGrady Insurance MSA Northern Ireland Rally Championship was on a dry but cold day at Bishopscourt, as the Ballynahinch and District Motor Club ran fourteen stages around the County Down circuit and it’s vast in-fields. Number one seed Derek McGarrity had sold his [...]
Posted 19 Feb 2015... This weekend marks the second anniversary of the tragic death of a spectator on the Snowman Rally, and of course on the Jim Clark Rally in 2014 three more spectators lost their lives in equally tragic circumstances. As a result the Scottish Government, following an emergency debate in the Scottish Parliament, [...]
Photo by Philip Stewart... The 2015 MSA ANICC McGrady Insurance MSA Northern Ireland Rally Championship started in fine style on the North Armagh Motor Club’s Eurocables Stages Rally at Kirkistown. The six stage mixed surface event, attracted a very healthy eight-six entries, and ran slickly in dry weather. The race at the front unfolded [...]
Photo by Kevin O'Driscoll... Donagh Kelly from Donegal and his Derry co-driver Kevin Flanagan powered their Ford Focus WRC to victory in the Colm Quinn BMW Galway International Rally which was based around Gort over the weekend. It was their first ever International Rally win and puts them into an early lead in the Clonakilty [...]