Browsing: Trackskills

Trackskills started organising and running track days for cars, at Kirkistown Racing Circuit, in 2000. One of the things that we have noticed, over the years, is how particular…

Donal O’Neill is circuit manager at Kirkistown Race Circuit, the fastest circuit in Ireland, one half of Trackskills, Saloon Racing winner, owner of Mulsanne Casinos … and he’s a hypnotist. …

Sunday 15th August was the first Trackskills track day after a six weeks break. It also fell on the day of the British Touring Cars’ visit to Knockhill in Scotland,…

The weather forecast for Sunday 4th July had been getting worse all week, so much so that we contacted one driver who we know has only slick tyres and told…

“Character building!” “Success in spite of adversity.” “Just when you think it can’t get any worse…” and finally “Every cloud has a silver lining.” All of these clichés could have…

If Carlsberg ran track days… I think that would be the opinion of most of the participants at the Trackskills track day at Kirkistown on Sunday 13th September, 2020. Not…

Sunday 5th July saw a very successful day enjoyed by most people, with a couple of notable exceptions. The Virgin obviously wasn’t but her heart must have been in the…

Forget idling in line at a McDonald’s drive-through, or standing in the rain along with dozens of others to get the last inflatable spa from Homebase. As the lockdown brought…

The weather gods looked kindly on Kirkistown, as the final car race meeting of 2019 took place on Saturday 28th September. Sunshine and blue skies dominated the day. Gerard O’Connell…

Conditions couldn’t have been better at a sunny Kirkistown Circuit on the Newtownards Peninsula for the first Trackskills bring-your-own track day. There were clear sunny skies and despite the low…

Sunday 14th May was a day of two extremes at Kirkistown. Following only three weeks after the last Trackskills track day and landing on the North West weekend, numbers were…

The final event of the Trackskills season took place on Sunday 13th November and it was obvious that we had run out of sacrificial virgins, as the rain never really…