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| Added: 01 Sep 2014 |
Category: 2014 Oval Racing |
| Grattan and Agnew victorious at Tullyroan |
I’m not sure if it’s an association I make with going back to school or if it’s how the seasons are defined, but I always consider the last day of August as the last day of summer. In reality this year the last day of summer mid have been somewhere around mid June, it was a mid week day and I was in work, unless you live locally to Aghadowey in which case summer was on Easter Monday this year!
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| Added: 24 Aug 2014 |
Category: 2014 Oval Racing |
| Ward Hat-Trick at Slick Tullyroan Meeting |
Since I’m normally amongst the first to complain when a meeting drags on a bit, on this occasion I’ll be the first to commend a slick run meeting at Tullyroan which seen 15 races done and dusted inside 3 hours, followed by a caravan destruction derby which was done, dusted and photos etc finished in a further half hour. Even the Ninja Karts managed three races without a stoppage!
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| Added: 23 Aug 2014 |
Category: 2014 Oval Racing |
| Hughes Wins Tooz at Ballymena |
Going into this weekend I think I’d been to Lochgelly as many times as I’d been to Ballymena. As much as I’d like to go to every stockcar meeting it’s too much to try doing 3 meetings a weekend, week after week, it was once something I’d have done a few times a season around Speedweekends, but now it seems most weekend’s the option is there to do three meetings and it’s just too much.
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| Added: 18 Aug 2014 |
Category: 2014 Oval Racing |
| Cup Success for Jackson and Murray |
If you read the 2Litre Hot Rod site then you’ll probably realise I’ve run out of headline ideas for “Murray wins…….”, on this occasion it may be a different Murray, a different family and a different class, but the writer’s block remains.
John Murray won the Micro Bangers European Cup at Tullyroan on Sunday and went on to take the all comers race too. Steven Reynolds won the DD, which was starting to feel a bit like an endurance race and I reckon it was lap fourteen before it was settled, but in a weird way it was still entertaining and ended with a head on between Reynolds and Steven Bolton who was entertainer of the day. On a side note it was good to see a Last Rites car back at Tullyroan with Kevin Moran at the wheel.
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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