Stages Rally Kirkistown 18th February
The Magic Bullet Stages Rally which was round one of the Carryduff Forklifs MSA Northern Ireland Rally Championship
took place at Kirkistown Race Circuit on Saturday 18th of February.
Glengormelly duo Derek McGarrity and James McKee in their WRC Subaru Impreza took the honours, setting the pace
from the word go winning by 38.3 seconds ahead of 2nd place Kevin Barrett and Declan Tumilty, Derek McGeehan and
Laurie Smyth taking 3rd spot in their WRC Mini. Ray Brammer and Jody Wilson, 4th, Kenny McKinstry and Martin
Cairns in 5th place after spinning and stalling their Subaru on the first stage which lost them almost a minute.
MCUI Test Day Kirkistown 12th Feb
A few photographs from todays test day for new race license holders at Kirkistown
Winter Series Karting Kirkistown 14th January
Sat 14 Jan Karting, Kirkistown
The event was organised by the 500 Motor Racing Club of Ireland and featured direct drive junior and senior classes. The event was rounds 3 of a 4 rounds Kirkistown Karting Winter Series.
McParland Trophy Ulster Championship Trial 5th November 2011
The McParland Trophy Ulster Championship Trial held at Slieve Croob Mountain, Finnis on 5th November 2011
Sunflower Trophy Races 2011
Ian Lowry won the Sunflower Trophy for the second time in three years, romping home by 10 seconds from Sam Lowes. Lowry’s Relentless TAS Suzuki team-mate Alastair Seeley failed to start the feature event after suffering minor injuries in a Supersport race crash.
Lowry won both Irish Superbike races to complete a treble while Lowes and Danny Buchan were Supersport 600cc winners. Jamie Hamilton and Jeremy McWilliams won the Supertwins and William Dunlop and Jamie Patterson had 250 successes. Nigel Percy and Robert English were the winners of the 125cc events. Danny Buchan, Michael Dunlop, William Dunlop and Cody Nally completed the top six leaderboard in the main Sunflower race. Nally joined Lowry and runner-up Seeley on the podium in Irish Superbike race one while David Haire and Michael Dunlop were second and third respectively in race two. Kirk Jamison was crowned Irish Superbike champion after that race despite crashing on lap seven. Jamison’s nearest challenger Matthew Percy had already crashed out earlier in the race. The first Supersport race of the day saw Lowes, Jack Kennedy and Seeley go into the last corner together as they battled for victory. Kennedy crashed out sustaining a suspected broken collarbone, and Seeley was unable to avoid him and also came down, suffering sore ribs and suspected concussion. Glenn Irwin took advantage of his opponents’ misfortune to claim second, with Keith Farmer third.
Buchan saw off Christian Elkin and Andy Reid in race two. In the Supertwins, Hamilton beat KMR Kawasaki team-mates Ryan Farquhar and Jeremy McWilliams in the curtain-raiser for that class. McWilliams improved to take the win in race two, with Hamilton second and Farquhar third.
Brothers Ben and Tom Birchall were the winners of sidecar race one, with Tim Reeves and Ashley Hawes the winners of the other race.
Published Photographs 2011
2011 has been quite a successful year for me as I have had photographs published in Irish Bike, Emerald Road Racing, the Belfast and District Motorcycle Club programmes, UTV News and Bike Sport News. The latter being my main publication where I have had photos in every issue so far this year.
Below is a selection of photographs that were published in Bike Sport News (BSN) throughout this year.
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