THE DRIVERS OF ELECTRIC GT HOLDINGS COMPLETE SECOND EKARTING TEST AT CIK FIA CIRCUIT MOTORLAND The test was completed by Aoife Melia (Ireland) and Tom Turschwel (France) from the eKarting Drivers’ Club Wednesday 11 April 2018, Wilmington USA Stars of the Electric GT eKarting Drivers’ Club have completed the second official test of the championship’s lightweight 3.2Kwh eKart ahead of
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Porsche hybrid race car is faster than Formula One Stuttgart. Today, on April 9, an evo version of the Le Mans winning Porsche 919 Hybrid established a new track record at Spa-Francorchamps. Porsche works driver Neel Jani lapped the 7.004 kilometre long Belgian Grand Prix Circuit in the Ardennes mountains in 1:41.770 minutes. The 34 year old Swiss has beaten
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Today in a meeting held at the Bahrain International Circuit, Formula 1 presented the teams and the FIA its proposals for the future of the sport from 2021 onwards. Chase Carey, Chairman and CEO at Formula 1, said: “Formula 1 is a sport with a rich history. We want to preserve, protect and enhance that history by unleashing F1s potential,
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Occupation: part time mechanic/student Road Car: Don’t have one at the minute. Race Car: Ginetta G20 Junior Drive of my Life: would have to be Kirkistown just last weekend Best car ever driven: race car Ginetta g20 Best road car ever driven: Audi S8 Dream race/rally car: Mclaren MP4/4 Dream road car: Ferrari F40 Other interests: Motocross , rugby Famous
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As the vintage cars get dusted off and the brass bands put in one final practice, it is hard not to notice that our national weekend, St Patrick’s Day is fast approaching. And anyone who has the vaguest of interest in motorsport would know that it also signals the arrival of the West Cork Rally. In recent years of its
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Motorsport Ireland Young Rally Driver of the Year Callum Devine got his Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC) campaign off to an encouraging start in Sweden last weekend. The young Derry driver belied his lack of experience on snow and ice by taking 6th place after 3 days of tough competition on the frozen forest tracks in a Ford Fiesta R2T.
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World Rally Championships – Ireland’s Craig Breen on the podium – Motorsport Ireland Weekend Roundup Ireland’s Craig Breen showed his class all weekend by scoring his best result in a World Championship Rally, bringing his Citroen Total Abu Dhabi WRT Citroen C3 to a superb second place overall in Rally Sweden. This was also the best performance ever by a
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When Walter Röhrl climbs aboard John Mulholland’s Porsche 911RS on the 1st September at the Titanic Slipway, he will be heading out to some of the territory last covered when he visited Ulster in 1984. Thirty-four years ago, the great German driver and his co-driver Christian Geistdörfer annihilated the opposition in their Group B Audi Quattro S1 by over
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Hello my name is Kirsty Widdrington & I have been competing in the Motorsport of Drifting for 7 years in total with 6 of those being in my boy #syrilthesilvia The 2018 season will be my 8th year in competition. Syril was purchased for a mere £400 back in 2008 from a drive way where he had grass growing up
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2018 Open Endurance Series. Supported By Yokohama What Is It? New for 2018, the Open Endurance Series supported by Yokohama is an exciting and unique race format in Ireland. Designed to offer maximum seat time and value for money, the new series removes barriers to entry, making it open to a huge range of closed-wheel cars. The series consists of
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