Aerospace engineer, Iain Leinster, has been involved in motorsport since he was a child. The 35-year-old Derry/Londonderry man followed in his father’s wheel tracks and has enjoyed more than 30 years of motorsport, driving an array of single-seater and hillclimb…
This season has been one like no other, not least for Daniel Campbell, 23, from Kells who has forced the changing of the guard on the hills of Northern Ireland. For decades names like Gordon Fogarty, Alan Jardine and David…
The 2021 SW Adair Tyres Northern Ireland Sprint Championship got underway much later than anticipated with its first round not taking place until July. After an unexpectedly long layoff from championship action, 87 competitors gathered at socially distanced intervals around…
After over a year without a single stage rally in Northern Ireland, Saturday 19 June, 2021 was a day that many had been waiting a long time for. A day when Bishopscourt Racing Circuit hosted the opening round of this year’s McGrady…
Having not managed to hold a championship in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic it was all to play for when the 2021 Northern Ireland Hillclimb Championship finally kicked off. Previewing the season at the start of this year, I…
Saturday 24th April 2021 was a landmark day for Northern Ireland Motorsport with the resumption of competition after that long Covid-19 lockdown, the day that seen the 2021 McMillan Specialist Cars NI Autotest Championship rev back into action after its…
Covid has been immensely disruptive in clubman motorsport. From lockdown to tentatively run autotests and sprints, everything became more difficult. We couldn’t have bits of paper passed between marshals and competitors. We couldn’t take paper-based entry forms. We couldn’t scrutineer…
Toyota and performance are words that go hand in hand, but only for those of a certain vintage who remember their racing and rallying antics of the 1990’s. Knocking at the door of 40 years of age, I am most…
An amateur photographer from County Down has raised a staggering £28,000 for the Air Ambulance Northern Ireland after selling 1,750 copies of his agriculture calendar featuring imagery of farming contractors working on the Ards Peninsula. Steven Evans (31), from Kirkistown,…
If ever you needed a car to transport the family about in during the week, yet excite you when chasing a rally at the weekend, or maybe even partaking in a track day, Peugeot have the answer. It comes in…