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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: 01 May 2013 |
Category: 2013 Oval Racing |
2013 - #13 – Lochgelly (HRP) – 27/4/13 |
First “overseas” trip of the season this year, and as per the last few years, it was off to Scotland. As soon as I heard the National Hot Rod European was being run at Lochgelly I was on looking at sailings and trying to get myself an infield spot, there is a good chance I even had my accommodation booked the same day as it was announced. The trip then spiralled a little and went from me going on my own in the car, to myself, Darren Black, Emma Hammond and Jonny Teggart going, not in the car, but in a Woolsey van with Jake’s Ninja Kart on board, and so, not for the first time I’ve been on a roadtrip to Scotland with a single seater on board.
It’s hard to beat a good roadtrip, and this one was a good one.
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Added: 01 May 2013 |
Category: 2013 Oval Racing |
2013 - #12 – Ballymena Raceway – 26/4/13 |
The first meeting of three over the weekend. This meeting gave me quite a dilemma, because as much as I wanted to support the charity race and be there to take a few photos, I had 101 things to get done ahead of going to Scotland. To try and be diplomatic about the class line up, I’ll just say that it would have been an easier sell with the F2’s or Nationals on the bill.
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Added: 19 Apr 2013 |
Category: Older Oval Racing |
A Decade Up For Davy |
Ten years has now past since Davy McCall first started his promotion at Nuttscorner Oval following the closure of Shamrock Park at the end of 2002.
I know there has been other landmarks have passed in the time I’ve been running NIF2 and I’ve tried to cover them in some shape or form, but this is the first of the landmarks that began was later than the birth of NIF2.
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Added: 07 Apr 2013 |
Category: 2013 Oval Racing |
2013 - #8 – Tullyroan Oval – 6/4/13 |
If the opening meeting at Tullyroan Oval was branded “The Dawn of a New Era”, then this must surely be a further Era we have now stepped into. A new start time, two new classes and the first outing for the Stock Rods as an official Tullyroan Oval class, really such a gamble could have produced a meeting that was a complete flop or a huge success, and it was the latter.
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Added: 02 Apr 2013 |
Category: 2013 Oval Racing |
2013 - #7 – Tullyroan Oval – 1/4/13 |
The third and final meeting of a busy Easter weekend for me and it was a bit of a mixed bag, the highs being that there was a great turnout of cars in every class and the infield has been changed, the low being the temperature and the wind, if there wasn’t a minus chill factor on the wind then it must have been damn close to it.
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Added: 02 Apr 2013 |
Category: 2013 Oval Racing |
2013 - #6 – Ballymena Raceway – 30/3/13 |
The second meeting in as many days at Ballymena Raceway and day 2 of the big Stock Rod weekend. I don’t think I’ll be alone in thinking a thirteen car turnout in the Stock Rods was quite poor for their Irish Open, it’s not that long since we would have had 13 visitors plus our own for such a championship. I guess the price of boats and the downfall of Tipperary has put drivers off coming.
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Added: 02 Apr 2013 |
Category: 2013 Oval Racing |
2013 - #5 – Ballymena Raceway – 29/3/13 |
The first meeting of the 2013 season proper and the traditional Good Friday start to the season for the Stock Rod Yokohama tyres championship.
On a rare occasion I made it for the start of a Friday night meeting, I would normally have been playing indoor football with work colleagues, but I’m still nursing a sore leg from the Oval Racing charity football match last week.
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