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Added: 18 Aug 2014 Category: 2014 Oval Racing Nicholl and Donnelly King and Queen of Aghadowey Another trip to Aghadowey and another opportunity to stand out on a cold night in light showers. In the same way shale tracks get watered every few races it seems compulsory that the weather system at the North West venue provides it’s own automated track watering system. For years I thought I’d just been unlucky that I could only ever remember being at Aghadowey once on a good day, putting it down to not having been very often and perhaps it had all been early or late season meetings, I now realize it just always rains there. On the plus side for spectators there is the shed and for the rest of us it wasn’t as wet as last week. [see the full article] Added: 18 Aug 2014 Category: Other Motorsport My First Trip to Autograss I’ve been going to Motorsport as long as I can remember, I grew up around F2’s, went with my uncle to all manor of Motorsport when I was growing up, Race meetings, Sprints, Hillclimbs, Rallycross, Rallying, Bikes, Karts, Trials anything with and engine that moved and we went to it. Somehow Autograss was something we never seemed to end up at. I think we went off in search of Autograss a few times, but with vague directions and in poor weather we never found an event and assumed it had been cancelled. [see the full article] Added: 12 Aug 2014 Category: 2014 Oval Racing Two Finals and a Heat win for Grattan at Aghadowey It’s not often a driver comes away from a meeting with double final win and a heat, but that was the case at Aghadowey on Friday 8th of August as Gary Grattan won the previously postponed Superstox King of Aghadowey final and went on to win the meeting final, the third round of the NIOvalTV Series. [see the full article] 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. 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