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…

I was recently given the opportunity to catch up with newly crowned and now two-time Northern Ireland Rally Champion, Jonny Greer. The 33 year-old Carryduff driver fresh from clenching second overall on this year’s Ulster International Rally. Whether you are…

This week we had the pleasure of speaking with Stuart Callaghan of Donnelly Group. Donnelly Group has been synonymous with the motor industry in Northern Ireland since 1947, and has gone on to become the area’s largest family-owned motor retailer,…

Citroën Berlingo Van has taken top spot for 2021, in the highly competitive ‘F1’ Compact Van segment, highlighting it as the van of choice for fleet and local business operators alike. Over 12,000 Berlingo Vans were registered in 2021 –…

As a petrolhead who has spent my life around motorsport my views of electric vehicles are blurred buy caustic fumes and I’ve yet to have a good EV experience.  But that all changed in May of last year, when Kia…