Last weekend’s Cultra Hillclimb in Northern Ireland celebrated 50 years of the Formula Ford racing category and “60 Years of Crosslé racing cars”. The Thoroughbred Sports Car Club hillclimb is based in the parkland grounds of the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum and once again attracted a capacity entry of 100 cars, which was filled in a record three days. Once again it was Richard McGimpsey, from Newtownards, who was the closest single-seater to Houston’s 32.33sec FTD but he couldn’t get closer than the 3/10ths gap set on his second run, in his self-built RMG/Busa. 21-year-old Roger Gage, from Ballymoney,…
Author: Tony Gregory
Cultra 2017 will see the Irish launch of eRally’s fully-electric rally car, this popular concept is based on the Renault Zoe and is the first fully-electric rally car to be inspected for a competition log book. During the day, the team will be doing demo runs up the technical Hillclimb course, with ex-Juniors rally drivers at the wheel. Visitors to the event are most welcome to come and meet the Team who will be based in the Manor Rear car park between S.T.E.M. and Go Motorsport display. The Zoe will form the blue-print for future eRally cars, which will give…
The opening round of the 2017 ANICC Millers Oils Hillclimb Championship may have fallen on April the 1st this year, but this didn’t stop Croft Hillclimb, Holywood, Co Down cementing its reputation as the seasons perfect opener with Ulster’s hillclimbing fraternity. This popular Thoroughbred Sports Car Club NI run event was rewarded with a maximum entry of 80 cars of which 76 posted a time. Even though the local weather produced four seasons in a day it didn’t perturb Bangor’s Christopher Houston who started his title defence in convincing style with FTD. Over the winter Houston had bought himself an…
Last Saturday the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum played host to Cultra Hill Climb 2016, Ulster’s best known automotive garden party. This unique event combines a competitive hillclimb with demos, displays and parades all put together with the aim of showcasing local engineering and giving the general public a glimpse of Irish motorsport and motoring history. This year the combined efforts of museum and the team at the Thoroughbred Sports Car Club definitely delivered a feast for the eye with the many varied displays and competition cars, many of which have never been seen in Ulster before and in the…
Last Saturday May 14th, Round 3 of the 2016 Millers Oils ANICC Hillclimb Championship was played out over the one mile long Dromhorc Hillclimb near Banbridge, Co Down and after getting his maiden championship win under his belt, it was Bangor’s Christopher Houston who made it 3 rounds out of 3 by winning class 14 and taking FTD in his OMS CF04 single seater. As well as organising sunshine and blue skies, Newry and District Motor Club had also gathered together a competitive field of 59 entries over 13 classes, but what probably delighted the local spectators the most, was…
Last Saturday the 16th April, Croft Hillclimb, Holywood, Co Down played host to Round 1 of the 2016 Millers Oils ANICC Hillclimb Championship, with Ulster’s hillclimbing fraternity producing a wide ranging entry of 69 cars of which 64 completed the course and posted a time. This popular Thoroughbred Sports Car Club NI run event was again rewarded with fine weather and a local winner in the form of Bangor’s Christopher Houston, who also convincingly took his OMS CF04 to its maiden Championship counting win. As the first practice runs which got underway at around 10.30am, the public road course witnessed action…