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: 11 Aug 2013 Category: 2013 Oval Racing 2013 - #35 – Tullyroan Oval – 10/8/13 With the National Hot Rod World and National Championships over for another year, qualifying began all over again as they topped the bill at Tullyroan on Saturday night. [see the full article] Added: 11 Aug 2013 Category: Anything Else C.D.T.E.C - Rosemount 2013 One of the biggest working days and vintage rallies in the country takes place at Rosemount each year, here are a few photos from this year's event. [see the full article] Added: 06 Aug 2013 Category: 2013 Oval Racing 2013 - #34 - Mendips Raceway - 4/8/13 Thursday - Sunny and warm, Friday - Sunny and warm, Saturday - Sunny and warm ….. Sunday - Wet, cold, horrible, miserable, not quite the vision I had of lying on the bank in the baking heat of a hot mid summer’s afternoon at Bristol when i booked the trip. Due to photography commitments at Tullyroan and the reduced number of F2 meetings at Ballymena, I haven’t seen much of the F2’s this season, but every now and again I remember I’m still a F2 fan at heart and head off in the pursuit of F2 racing. [see the full article] Added: 30 Jul 2013 Category: 2013 Oval Racing 2013 - #33 - Tullyroan Oval - 28/7/13 The second day of the Speedweekend and it was always going to take something to upstage the ProStocks Irish Open on Saturday night, and the same class nearly pulled it off again. [see the full article] Added: 30 Jul 2013 Category: 2013 Oval Racing 2013 - #32 - Tullyroan Oval - 27/7/13 After weeks of working on posters, artworks and the programme the Summer Speedweekend had finally arrived. One of the biggest and most anticipated weekends of racing in the local oval racing calendar. Cut grass, fresh paint, and the tyres out of the road on the infield are amongst the things that make the Speedweekend special for me, if you can’t get good shots with that combination, you shouldn’t have a camera! [see the full article] Added: 26 Jul 2013 Category: Older Oval Racing Speedweekend in Mono As part of the process in putting together the Tullyroan Oval Speedweekend Programme, I convert some photos to mono and see what looks right on the page when it's converted. I don't work in mono a lot, I know some other togs do and I know that it's not rocket science to convert a photo these days or to even shoot in mono, but I thought I'd put a few shots together in mono of past speedweekends, so here they are.... [see the full article] Added: 21 Jul 2013 Category: 2013 Oval Racing 2013 - #31 - Tullyroan Oval - 20/7/13 This was one of those damned if you do and damned if you don’t meetings, I personally could have done without it because it creates another day of work on the back of it and I could do with that time to clear up the programme for the speedweekend, on the other hand it’s a long run from the end of June to the end of July to not have any racing on. [see the full article] Added: 21 Jul 2013 Category: Anything Else Peninsula Vintage Club Annual Road Run 2013 An event which has been a regular part of my diary for the past few years, the way the stockcar dates fall this year it's also the last run I get to go on for a few weeks, the Peninsula Vintage club annual road run took place on the 13th of July. [see the full article] Added: 11 Jul 2013 Category: 2013 Oval Racing 2013 - #29 & #30 – Ipswich Spedeweekend 2013 Back in 2010 I made my first trip to the Ipswich Spedeweekend, coming from an F2 background it had taken up most of my summer travelling arrangement up to near that point. Back in 2010 NIF2 had pretty much ceased to exist and was little more than an out of date holding page, but it was my trip to the Spedeweekend and indeed my front row seats on the infield to photo and watch it that inspired my revival of the site and making it into the blog it is now, and the facebook presence followed. We went with great hope in 2010 with 3 World Championships to be decided, The Nationals, The Lightning Rods and the 2 Litres, and it sort of passed without our cars really troubling the podium too much. I should have gone back in 2011 but then something came up close to the time and I changed my mind. In 2012 I sat with my phone in hand reloading the live updates on the Spedeworth site before flicking back to the National Hot Rod facebook page, then twitter, then back to the Spedeworth site to start the cycle again as the race unfolded in digital on front of me and Glenn Bell took the gold, and at that time decided I wasn’t missing it in 2013! [see the full article] Added: 30 Jun 2013 Category: 2013 Oval Racing 2013 - #28 – Tullyroan Oval – 29/6/13 The final meeting in what has been a very busy June and the last one before the summer break. ProStocks were a late addition to the programme, thankfully replacing Open Hot Rods, which are a bit hit and miss, but are never 30+ cars and therefore never as exciting as ProStocks. [see the full article]

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