It’s always a bittersweet time for Mondello racers when the Leinster Trophy comes around. It’s the biggest meeting of the year (although the Vee Festival comes close) and was traditionally the one everyone wanted to win. Well, that or the Phoenix Par,k and preferably both! It remains as a two day meeting even though the live RTE coverage of the
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The annual Motor Enthusiasts Club Car Race event, will see a varied twenty race programme run over the weekend of June 10th & 11th. The races will be evenly split across the two days of action, with single seaters providing the feature races on Saturday and a mainly Saloon Racing timetable on Sunday. Saturday will feature the two strongest single
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I usually start these pieces by saying it seems like yesterday that last year’s season ended and already we are ready to start a brand new season. This time though, the anticipation must have the better of me- it has taken an age to come around! This Sunday though, the national racing season kicks off at Mondello Park with, as
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16 year old William Kellett will graduate to the Fiesta ST series in 2017, thanks to a deal with Leo Nulty Promotions and Dublin Bodyshop JH Autobody. A regular winner in Junior Rallycross, William moved to Future Classics in 2016, the family Kellett Motorsport Team having upgraded his rallycross car to 1300cc. Despite a deficit of power to most of the
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Troublesome people often start their stories with “There I was, minding my own business….” but that is exactly what I was doing during a break in commentary duties at the Mondello Truck Show last weekend, when Aidan Byrne and Richard Kearney arrived over for a chat. The Micksgarage.com Future Classics were performing a number of demo races over the weekend
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KAST lubricants, a division of the KAST Automotive Components brand have agreed a 12 month sponsorship deal with the Future Classics racing Championship. KAST Automotive Components are distributed in the UK & Ireland solely by online car parts retailers, MicksGarage.com. The KAST range includes suspension & steering parts, engine parts, drivetrain parts and lubricants. This announcement brings KAST Lubricants to
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Last weekend was a first of many things for me. First ever qualifying first ever circuit and also the first time driving the vastly different Nissan Micra to what I had last season. After spending most of the winter stripping the car to a bare shell and sourcing parts to transform the car from 1.0 Junior Rallycross spec to 1.3
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