The fifth round of the Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Championship, the Joule Donegal International Rally saw the closest finish to any Irish International Rally in history. While Manus Kelly took the overall win in a Subaru Impreza WRC, it was tremendous drive by Keith Cronin and Mikie Galvin who were pipped by just 0.5 seconds …
2015 Irish Tarmac junior champion John O’Sullivan has moved into the homologated arena and purchased Marty Gallagher’s Fiesta R2. The talented Cork native won the tarmac junior championship last year in what was his first full year of rallying. He continued to impress in 2016 with some stunning drives in his trusty Honda Civic and currently lies fourth overall in …
The fifth round of the Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Rally Championship, the Joule Donegal International Rally, promises to be one of the events of the year with all of the championship contenders due to take part. It has been a number of years since Alastair Fisher competed in Donegal, but that 2011 event saw him …
Championship R2 contender Marty Gallagher has recently purchased an ex Rob Duggan Peugeot 208 R2. Marty has been ever present in the Tarmac Championship this year in his trusty Fiesta R2. “The Fiesta R2 was a great car but the power deficit to the Opels and Vauxhalls was very noticeable on the stages. Our debut in …
Eight days to go until the Donegal International Rally. Fisher, Cronin, the Moffett brothers, Stephen Wright, local man Joe McGonigle amongst others will all be battling it out for maximum championship points. With three different championship leaders so far this year things couldn’t be tighter, so who will at the helm after Donegal? don’t bet …
The #ITRC – Rally of the Lakes television programme is set to air tonight at 23:15 on UTV. UTV Thurs 12 May @ 23:15pm UTV Ireland Fri 13 May @ 22:30pm Irish TV Sky 191 Fri 20th May @ 4:30am Sat 21st May @ 14:00pm Sun 22nd May @ 16:00pm TG4 – Part 1 Fri 20th May …
The Tarmac Rally Organisers Association(T.R.O.A.) are delighted to announce that Clonakilty Blackpudding have agreed to remain on board as title sponsor for the Tarmac Championship for the 2017 season. This will be the fourth year that the Irish owned company will have been the title sponsor which has proven very successful to date. Speaking earlier, …
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The Cartell.ie International Rally of the Lakes was the fourth round of the Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Championship and as usual the Killarney based event proved to be as tough and demanding as ever. There were sixteen stages over the two days and 2016 saw Anthony O’Connor take over as Clerk of the Course for …
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A superb performance from Alastair Fisher & Gordon Noble in a Ford Fiesta R5 saw them net maximum points with second overall in the Cartell.ie International Rally of the Lakes. They finished just under a minute behind rally winner Donagh Kelly and the result sees them move into the lead of the Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish …
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An excellent drive to second place overnight in the Cartell.ie International Rally of the Lakes leaves Alastair Fisher & Gordon Noble as top placed championship crew in Killarney. They lie just 26.8 seconds off the lead held by Garry Jennings in an Impreza, while Sam Moffett has also featured strongly and only lies thirteen seconds …
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