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Action Assured As UK Racers Land in Ireland |
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
Three of the most action packed race series in the UK land in Ireland this weekend for a two day festival of racing. The NASCAR style Pick-Up Trucks head the bill joined by the highly popular Legends racers and first time visitors the endurance racers of the 'Uniroyal Fun Cup'. the Irish Motor Racing Club will take charge of the eighteen race programme which promises action all the way provided not only by the UK classes but also by the best of Irish.
The high speed pick-up's are unique in European racing and are styled
on the American Oval Racing NASCAR Trucks. The purpose built racers are
closely related to our own Dunlop Supercar Championship having been
designed and built to the same formula by Sonny Howard of SHP the
company behind the Pick-Up championship. A field of over twenty cars is
expected to make the championships second trip to Ireland,d in its
tenth anniversary year, and the cars are expected to turn some of the
fastest saloon racing laps of all time at the track. A championship
race each day with the grid order being the reverse of championship
positions means close racing will be the order of the day.
Always highly entertaining, the Legends Cars make another visit to
Ireland with their biggest ever travelling grid. Many championships
have been billed as providing frantic racing action over the years but
these diminutive cars are the only ones that truly live up to that
description. Low weight, high power and a very short wheelbase make
these 5/8th scale 1930's US racing replicas a handful. Their
spectacular performance coupled with reverse grids and short sharp
races always leads to excitement with, as their own slogan goes, 'more
overtaking in one race than a season of Formula One'. The legends will
race three times each day with the first two races deciding the grid
for the final. Championship points are on offer in each race so there
will be no quarter asked or given through the six Legends races
scheduled over the weekend.
Making its first visit to Ireland is the Uniroyal Fun-Cup for identical
VW Beetle bodied racers. While not the fastest cars on the Mondello
timetable an entry of over thirty will make for an exciting spectacle
as the teams of drivers try to negotiate three hours of racing on the
tight Mondello Park National track. Throw in compulsory pit-stops every
half hour and you have the recipe which has made this series one of the
most popular around. Two separate events with the grid for each race
being drawn from a hat should provide some good entertainment in what
is a departure from the normal sprint races seen at Mondello events.
The Dunlop Supercars, Dunlop Abarth Cup, FDS Worldwide Express Formula
Vee Championship and combined Southern and Northern Irish Formula Ford
championships are the Irish classes on the bill. Formula Vee races on
Saturday with a qualifying race required to decide the grid for the
championship race. All the other classes have two races each on
Sunday's timetable.
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