Mayo Forest Rally –
Hotel Accommodation
Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th October 2015:
Bed & Full Irish Breakfast: €49.50 per person sharing
Dinner, Bed & Full Irish Breakfast: €59.50 per person sharing
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Saturday 17th October 2015:
Bed & Breakfast €40 per person sharing – €80 room
TeamMurphy collect more silverware
Father & son #TeamMurphy continued their recent good run of form at Westmeath & District Motorclub’s (Grass surface) Autocross at Killucan, Co Westmeath on September 13th.
Jason finished 2nd in class 9 while Ronan was 3rd in class 1
Pics John Delaney.
Foxford man Alan Moran put in a masterful performance on the Lakeland Forest Rally, round five of the Valvoline Irish Forestry Rally Championship, held in Enniskillen on Saturday last. Moran with navigator John Burke alongside drove his Peugeot 206 without incident through the forests of west Fermanagh, rewarded at the end of the event with third place points in the junior championships. With championship leader Patrick O’ Brien retiring on the last stage, the points haul for the young Mayo driver propels him into first place overall with only two rounds remaining. Wesport man Ed Muldoon was unlucky, after putting in some fine times earlier in the day he retired his DJ Rally-hire Mitsubishi Evo on the penultimate stage. Next round for both Mayo crews is slightly closer to home, Round six of the Valvoline Irish Forestry Rally Championship, the Mayo Stages Forest Rally takes place on October 18th.
Mayo & District Motorsport Club are proud to announce details of the Mayo Mini-Stages Forest Rally taking place on Sunday 18th October 2015. Based in Ballina, the event will be the sixth round of the Motorsport Ireland Valvoline Irish Forestry Rally Championship.
Clerk of the Course Trevor O’ Connell said “We are delighted to see the return of a Forest Rally to Mayo after an absence of 15 years, I’m very pleased to welcome on board Crockets on the Quay (Ballina) as main sponsor, as without their help and the help of associated sponsors an event of this magnitude would not be able take place. I would also like to thank my team as we have brought together some of the best forest stages anywhere in Ireland. My thanks go to the local community, land owners and to Coillte and the assistance they have given over these past months, as we have worked hard to overcome difficulties thrown up by the terrain and the weather. I hope everyone will find this very worthwhile and a challenging motorsport competition for the competitors. Thanks also to Motorsport Ireland and the Forest Rally Championship Sub Committee for giving us the opportunity of hosting this event, and we hope it will be a strong round of the championship for the 2015 season.”
While you can be guaranteed plenty of rally related family entertainment and action throughout Ballina over the weekend, the real action will take to the loose surface forest tracks on the morning of Sunday 18th with the competing field leaving Parc fermé in Ballina and moving down the road for the main event which consists of two challenging stages run twice in the Ballycastle and Moygownagh area.
This is an important event in the Motorsport Ireland Valvoline Forestry Rally calendar as it is the penultimate round in the 2015 championship and the last of the Southern rounds. After round five which took place in Enniskillen, Mayo will be a deciding event for many competitors and it is sure to attract an exciting list of entries.
“Whether you’re a frequent forest rally competitor or one of our many Mayo Autocross regulars who wants to make the step up, the Mayo Mini-Stages Forest Rally is the event of 2015 that you don’t want to miss, It’s an rally organised by competitors for competitors” Trevor stated, “and this is reflected by us making it a user friendly event; centralised service in Ballycastle on tarmac and scrutiny available Saturday evening or Sunday morning along with Parc fermé at Rally HQ, Crockets on the Quay in Ballina, that coupled with a 40km compact loop of competitive stages, it makes for an exciting event for all types of competitor” says Trevor.
Regs and Entry form are available to download shortly on the club website, www.mayomotorsportclub.com
The official launch of the Crockets on the Quay Mayo Mini-Stages Forest Rally takes place on the evening of Friday 2nd of October in Crockets on the Quay and all are welcome to come along. For further information on the event keep an eye on the club’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, @MayoMotorClub and on the club website.
September monthly meeting – next Friday, 4th at 9pm
Location: Micky Macs, Tubbercurry
All members asked to attend. New members always welcome!
Former National rally champion Peadar Hurson in a Subaru S10 WRC took a start to finish victory in the 4×4 Exporter Galway Summer Rally, the penultimate round of the Triton Showers National Rally Championship. Hurson took the lead on stage 1 after pre event favourite and number 1 seed, Declan Boyle, slid his Ford Fiesta WRC off the road into the undergrowth on the opening stage forcing him to retire.
Top Mayo & District Club finisher was Kevin Glynn who was navigating for Daniel McKenna in the P1 Rally Rentals Fiesta R5. Speaking afterwards Daniel thanked Kevin for a fine job on the notes. They had a good steady run winning Class 5 and finishing in eighth place overall. Daniel said he took his time to settle into the car and the new pacenotes. “A few small mistakes probably cost us a few places overall” he said, but he was really impressed with the performance of the Fiesta.
Obliterating the competition in Class 1, Crossmolina brothers Brian and Lorcan Moore lead the class from start to finish in their C-sport Honda Civic. Brian who is based in England working with Bentley Racing, flew back specially for the event, taking a gamble as with 24 hours to go they were still on the reserve list! The mechanic come race driver was a happy man on Sunday evening and thanked his younger brother Lorcan for a great job calling pacenotes, although reporting a few moments during the day, he was thrilled with the end result and can’t wait to get back home to compete in more events between the busy Bentley racing schedule.
Ballisadore’s Darragh Mullen guided Padraic Condon to 8th in class 10 in a Peugeot 205.
In the junior category, Cormac Phelan earned a hard fought victory in his Citroen C2R2, keeping the Honda Civic of Gary McNamee at bay by just 3.2 seconds. Ballina’s Derek McCarthy navigating for Steven Reynolds finished in 8th place, one ahead of Justin Ryan who suffered alternator problems in his Honda Civic.
Picture credits: Rally Through A Lens & Sean McHugh
