County Down racing driver Tony Greenan takes first ever Formula BOSS Ireland championship after just a few seasons of trying and I caught up with the 44-year-old Hilltown businessman to learn more. “I started racing probably in the year 2000,…
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The McGrady Insurance Motorsport UK NI Forest Rally Challenge got underway at the start of the year as over seventy crews headed into the Samsonas backed Fivemiletown Spring Rally on the 25 Februrary. Mark Donnelly and Stephen O’Hanlon took the…
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This year saw the inaugural ‘Micra Challenge’ take place in Northern Ireland and with fifteen drivers taking part across a busy season of six events hopefully the way in which it started is the way that means to go on.…
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The quiet hills above Holywood in County Down come alive each spring to the sounds and smells of racing cars and 2023 was no different as the ANICC Motorsport Supplies Hillclimb Championship got underway in April. Here’s how the season…
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After a hugely successful couple of years the 2023 SW Adair Tyres Northern Ireland Sprint Championship was set to get underway at the start of March in County Antrim. The calendar showed a season consisting of nine rounds, with seven…
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This year’s Northern Ireland Rally Championship was supported once again by McGrady Insurance, it was a familiar start to the season with a visit to the fastest racing circuit in Ireland as Kirkistown hosted the single venue stage rally event.…
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Christmas comes early for 12-year-old driving ace, Rory Armstrong, a pupil at St. Patrick’s Grammar School in Downpatrick, as he becomes World Rotax 125 Mini Max Champion in Bahrain at the start of December. Fending off seventy-one world-class drivers from…
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Stephen ‘Weavy’ Whitford finally lifted the Micra Challenge winner’s trophy 27 years after his first attempt. At a packed Down Royal venue in late November Whitford took the plaudits, receiving a warm reception from friends and fellow competitors gathered to…
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Saturday 4th November 2023 will be a day that goes down in not just autotesting history, but the history of Northern Ireland Motorsport. A day that saw seventy competitors from all over the British Isles and Southern Ireland competing at both…
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On Thursday, 2nd November, most of the Kirkistown track was underwater. It had been like this for a few days. However, the rain had stopped, and the storm drains were shifting water at capacity. The problem was that the land…