Top motorsport event the Circuit of Ireland is back significantly enhanced for 2014 with the announcement today that the iconic rally is one of 12 set to feature in next year’s revamped FIA European Rally Championship calendar. Scheduled to take place during its traditional Easter Week-end slot on 18-19 April, the Circuit of Ireland Rally is being billed as one [...]

Ireland’s Paul Nagle has taken over the role of co-driver to Volkswagen works driver Andreas Mikkelsen (N) at the Rally Australia. Nagle is standing in for Mikko Markkula (FIN), who is currently recovering from two injured vertebrae. The Norwegian/Finnish duo had to withdraw from last week’s Rally Germany at the last minute, as Markkula’s injury was too severe to allow [...]

The Carryduff Forklift MSA Northern Ireland Stage Rally Championship bursts back into action this week when the Todds Leap Ulster Rally gets underway on Friday. The Championship tussle resumes on the closed roads in Fermanagh and Tyrone with the two-day event also hosting rounds of the premier British and Irish Tarmac series. There are a number of different categories to [...]

This weekend’s Orchard Motorsport Lurgan Park Rally has a stunning entry, with 10 World Rally Cars heading an invited list of 50 crews. Topping that list is 11 times winner Kenny McKinstry in his Subaru WRC, with 5 times Tarmac Champion Eugene Donnelly at 2, current Tarmac Championship leader Garry Jennings at 3 also in a Subaru, and former multiple [...]

(Photo: Stephen Kerr) The RallyForums.com backed Evo 1 belonging to Jonathan MacDonald and Bill Walker scored victory in class 9 and 14th overall at last weekend’s Vanilla Black Catering Summer Stages Rally. Based at Bishopscourt Race Circuit, near Downpatrick, the crew powered their way into second in class from the start of the event, with the Group A Impreza belonging [...]

Carryduff’s Barry Greer grew up with a family immersed in the world of motorsport. His father, Davy Greer, is still a regular face on the rally scene and runs DGM Sport, a successful rally hire and preparation business. Being surrounded by rallying from such a young age, it was no surprise that both Barry and his brother Jonny also picked [...]

When Sam Moffett and co-driver James O’Reilly brought their McKinstry hired S14 specification Subaru Impreza WRC over the finish ramp as winners of the Hillgrove Hotel Monaghan Stages Rally on Sunday, it was the climax of what had been a very fraught 48 hours for the crew… The fraught journey to contest the Monaghan Stages Rally started one week earlier [...]

Bank Holiday Monday 6th May is THE DAY and St Angelo Airport is THE PLACE to be to see some spectacular rally action. This rally always bring out a host of ‘quick locals’ eager to battle it out on the tar at St Angelo Airport. Some rally crews will be keen to get to grips with the St Angelo course this Bank Holiday [...]

Craig Breen Rallying is delighted to announce that Craig Breen and his Killarney co driver Paul Nagle will take on both the Cartell.IE International Rally of the Lakes, 3-5 of May and the Topaz Donegal International Rally 21-23, of June. The Peugeot Sport Academy crew will compete in the National section of both events driving a class 13 Mk11 Escort [...]

Pirelli tyres provided crews with a winning advantage on multiple rallies taking place in the UK and Ireland over the weekend including the Granite City Rally, the Somerset Stages, the Monaghan Stages Rally and the London Rally for Heroes. In Scotland, Pirelli’s K6 and KM6 Scorpion gravel tyres assisted the top eight finishing crews on the demanding Granite City Rally [...]