Ballymoney in Northern Ireland played host to the Merlin Fuel Ulster Grand Prix yesterday with nitro cars making a successful return to the once popular nitro venue. Organised by the UMCC, the inaugural Nitro GP attracted a quality entry including former Irish National 1:10 200mm Champions Chris Steele & Stephen Hayes, and British Championship race winner Mark Gilliland. In qualifying it was Steele with his Murnan …

After a successful start to the Irish Touring Car Series in Ballymoney back in July, Sunday the 21st saw Ireland’s Garmin/Sqeez Backed 190mm EP Touring Car National Championship decend upon St Annes Park in Dublin for round 2, with most of Irelands top Electric drivers in attendance it was set to be a very competative day, The Track was in a good clean condition and although Traction was low during practice This soon picked up well for Qualifing. Once again it was a very well run event even though Martin Kenny, Irelands formost expert on BBkRc had to lend a hand or two during the day…

Sunday 28th September will see 200mm nitro cars back at Ballymoney.  The UMCC will host the ‘Merlin Fuel Nitro Grand Prix’.

Oisin has been in contact to let us all know about the Hobbies Ireland S120 Winter Series which will run as part of the Dublin Model Car Clubs winter series.

1/12th Scale Racing (by Jim Heal)

With the indoor season quickly approaching and the great fun of carpet racing Jim Heal has kindly put together the following article about 12th scale racing- hopefully this will entice a few more of you to take up this great form of racing…

The fourth & final round of the Irish 1:8 Buggy Nationals took place over the weekend at the Navan Nitro Nuts track and where championship came to a thrilling climax with a tie break required to declare the 2008 Champion. After 45 minutes of racing it was Xray driver Barkley Abernethy who just took the win from the Hot Bodies of Mark Harron.