Welcome to NIF2.com, providing insight into stock car racing in Northern Ireland from behind the lens. We aim to feature as much as we can from Tullyroan Oval, Ballymena Raceway and as well as bits and pieces from our travels and a look back at days gone.

Added: 31 Jul 2014 Category: 2014 Oval Racing Speedweekend Sunday The second day of the speedweekend always seems like you’ve never been away, I think I got home on Saturday night at 11.40 and was sorting photos out and clearing memory cards until around 1am then up again at 8 to get batteries charged and get back to Tullyroan. The second day is also big race day, and going by the earlier forecasts I’d seen during the week it was going to be dry and the worst of the weather should have been on Saturday night….. it turns out I need a different weather app on my phone. [see the full article] Added: 31 Jul 2014 Category: 2014 Oval Racing Speedweekend Saturday Like many of the competitors and their crews the Speedweekend for me starts well in advance of arriving at the track on Speedweekend Saturday. NIOvalTV was planning the World Final T-shirt with Clive Marchant ahead of the European weekend at Lochgelly in April, I don’t think the world cup had started when we were doing the first pages of the race programme, I remember working on the programme as results came in from Ipswich, Skegness and Northampton. It’s almost a relief to get to the big day as much as anything. [see the full article] Added: 23 Jul 2014 Category: 2014 Oval Racing ProStocks Irish Open - Rarely Outnumbered, Never Outgunned While much of the talk this week will be of the Speedweekend and the 2 Litre Hot Rod World Championship, there is what some people would consider a support race that is more than capable of upstaging the headline act, in fact some would say it will be the headline act on the Saturday night for others perhaps it simply is the headline act, I am of course referring to the ProStocks Irish Open Championship. [see the full article] Added: 22 Jul 2014 Category: 2014 Oval Racing Been There, Done That…. Bought the T-shirt? - Part 2 There is a long list of things I’d like to do and see in local oval racing, and in fact in Oval racing in general, some of it is beyond my control, such as I’d love to see a class get to the stage it needs split heats and qualifying for the final, the way F1’s, F2’s and Saloons do at well supported meetings, I’d love to see a day when the F1’s grace the tracks in NI, I’d love to see a major championships return to NI for open wheeled classes, be it Superstox or F2’s. It would be great to see big screens up around the racing like you see at Grand Prixs of major sporting events, for now I’d even settle for a scoreboard like Ipswich but then again the time might come when you can do that through an app on your phone with a live feed from the mylaps. [see the full article] Added: 21 Jul 2014 Category: 2014 Oval Racing Six of the Best at Tullyroan A few years back at Nuttscorner Oval, following the demise of the Production / 2.0 Stock Cars and before the arrival of the ProStocks, it was quite normal to have a long run of meetings with all non contact classes. It shows how much times have changed when the promotion is now able to field four contact classes in the one meeting and you rely on the other two to bring a few incidents too. [see the full article] Added: 15 Jul 2014 Category: 2014 Oval Racing Flying Fleming King of Aghadowey Ryan Fleming and JayJay McConaghie took the King of Aghadowey titles in the ProStocks and the Robins respectively at Aghadowey Oval at the July Bank Holiday meeting. [see the full article] Added: 30 Jun 2014 Category: 2014 Oval Racing Big League debut at Lochgelly It's hard to beat a wee road trip, and if your going to do a road trip then it's hard to beat seeing the F1's at the end of it. [see the full article] Added: 30 Jun 2014 Category: 2014 Oval Racing McClure takes Tyre at Tullyroan The last night of racing at Tullyroan pre-Ipswich seen final wins for Kenny Robinson (Lightning Rods), Matthew Nicholl (Ninja Karts), JayJay McConaghie (Reliant Robins), Davy Wright (ProStocks) and Ryan McClure (Superstox) [see the full article] Added: 26 Jun 2014 Category: Past Oval Racing TBT Special - The Shale Arena Since Turn Back Thursday is a bit in trend at the minute, and it's 5 years since the hype of what was then the arrival of shale racing in Northern Ireland, here is a look back on it's short lifespan [see the full article] Added: 23 Jun 2014 Category: 2014 Oval Racing Elliot and Davis Dominate at Tullyroan Ivan Elliott and Edmund Davis won all three races in the 1300 Stock Cars and Junior Productions at Tullyroan Oval on Sunday 22nd of June. [see the full article]

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