BOSS Ireland Champion Peter Dwyer was presented with the famous Leinster Leader Trophy at the awards ceremony in County Meath last week. Peter’s name is now added to a very exclusive list of winners, since the trophy was first presented 50 years ago. These include 5 time Grand Prix Winner John Watson, former Williams Grand Prix driver Derek Daly and team
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October 28th brought with it the return of the Mondello Park 6 hour Fiesta Endurance Race, arguably (and I’m biased here) one of the greatest annual events in Irish Motorsport. What makes this event special? Let’s take a look. The cars, budget tin tops, Fords humble offering of the fourth generation Fiesta 1.25 Zetec, trading for as little as €2,000
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How many times have people asked you what the best way into motor racing is? In our case, many many times. Motor racing, by its nature, is never going to be cheap. However, a budget series is always going to be popular and none more so than in the case of the Mondello based Fiesta Zetec series. Prompted by a
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Shane Rabbitt was the ITCC title favourite this year in his self built and developed Mazda RX-7. He did most of the winning and was set to seal the deal at Mondello Park in September in front of the Irish Motorsport TV cameras! For some reason though, the other Super Touring competitors brought their A Game to the party- and
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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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2017 had been an incredible season for Vertical Racing, with David Parks winning both the Northern Irish and Irish National Formula Sheane Championship as well as the Holmpatrick Trophy. Team mate Leslie Shaw also won the Formula Sheane Scholarship series. The team are quick to pay thanks to team principal Robbie Parks for preparing amazing championship winning cars and also to Andrew
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What a treat for the Stryker class to return to the fast and flowing impeccably groomed race circuit that Bishopscourt is and so easy to understand why the bike racers love it here also. Thesun shone all weekend which added to the relaxed atmosphere that Mark Kelly, Gary Manning and their ultra- friendly and efficient team of organisers had created.
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Two things happened at Mondello Park on Sunday that I’m not sure have ever happened before at the Kildare venue. Firstly, Shane Rabbitt’s spectacular Mazda RX-7 ignited itself on the slow down lap of ITCC qualifying, having taken pole. Having taken a while to extinguish, we didn’t expect the car to make the grid- let alone win the race. It
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15 year old Cameron Fenton took an impressive double victory in Ginetta Junior Ireland at Mondello Park last weekend. In testing on Saturday, the Greystones driver had made improvements to the car and swapped times with series leader Patrick Dempsey all day. In qualifying, Dempsey snatched pole position, with Fenton just a few tenths away and confident of scoring his first win
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“My Fiesta ST Debut”- Those are words I didn’t think I’d be saying for a long time! I’d never have imagined being lucky enough to be in the position I’m in right now. Thanks to a good season last year including a Young Racing Driver of the Year Nomination plans were soon arranged so I could move into the 150bhp
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