Galway Motor Club – Ballyallaban Hill Climb
GALWAY MOTOR CLUB – BALLYALLABAN HILL CLIMB Sat 26th and Sunday 27th March 2022 Report re HRCA Members The event was held in glorious sunshine over 2 days on the 2km Ballyallaban Hill Climb outside Ballyvaughan The organisation was very good, there were approx. 60...
Event & News updates from the Chairman 25 Feb 2022
EVENT AND NEWS UPDATE FROM THE CHAIRMAN 25 Feb 2022 I hope this communication finds you all safe and well as we can now see some degree of normality coming back into our lives and we look forward to the coming race and hill climb season. 1. OPENING EVENT OF THE YEAR...
Historic Festival – Mondello 13th and 14th August 2022
Historic Festival – Mondello 13th and 14th August 2022 2022 promises to deliver the most exciting Historic Festival in the history of the HRCA. We have assembled an International Grid of over 70 pe-war cars, including many entrants who are regularly invited to...
Gordon Bennett Motor Car Race 1903
The HRCA are hosting the recreation of ther 1903 Gordon Bennett Motor Car Race, which was based around the Athy area – next July. The event is being supported by the Shackleton Museum in Athy which will be putting on a special exhibition of 1903 race memorabilia and...
Endurance race raises fantastic €9,400 for St Catherine’s
Over €9,400 was recently presented to St Catherine’s Association following an endurance race at Mondello race track. A team of four drivers were behind the wheel of a restored Ford Fiesta for a combined six hours to complete the challenge. They raised a fantastic...
A Six Hour Fiesta at Mondello Park.
“LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE” This conjures up pictures of old codgers in Yorkshire getting up to all kinds of mad stuff and mischief. That is exactly what happened: except the old codgers were from HRCA. They came up with the daft idea of driving in the Fiesta 6 hour...
Handicaps for Mondello Park 11th September 2021
2021 Championship Positions after Race 6
Positions after race 6 available by following the link below. ...
The Liam Ruth Modsports Midget For Sale
https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/midget-healy-mod-sport-race-car/29012202?fbclid=IwAR1gnLMzPLd4ylbNUNMvVPF6udnh02IfmE18ATVrawHlHvKlVlfHlcYS5zo Super opportunity to purchase a beautifuly built and competitive car for the HRCA grid.........come racing !...
Results for Mondello – 14 August 2021
Results for Mondello races on 14 August 2021 can now be found on the results page or by clicking the link below. Thanks. https://hrca.ie/results-mondello-14th-august-2021/
HRCA pre 55s feature in Autosport magazine .
More paddock wanderings!
Paddock Perambulations Gold Aug 21 PADDOCK PERAMBULATIONS: 14th August 2021 GOLD (“always believe in yourself” – Spandau Ballet) Kellie Harrington won gold at the Olympics but we definitely had some gold medal winning cars on our grid especially among the pre-55s....
Perambulations
Some pit chatter at the tropical Mondello July meeting by our spectating mystery scribe as she ambled around the sweltering paddock . HOT HOT HOT “Me mind on fire - Me soul on fire – Feeling Hot Hot Hot - Keep up this spirit – Come on let’s do it – Feeling Hot Hot...
2021 Race Championship – Frank Cassidy Cup .
Race Results 17th July 2021 .
Results from our season opener at Mondello Park 12th June 2021.
Chatter from the Mondello paddock on Saturday 12th June 2021.
PADDOCK PERAMBULATIONS It has been 394,560 minutes since our last race meeting. Some of those minutes felt like hours as the time ticked by with nothing to do and no racing. Everyone was slightly over excited to be back on the track again. It is like being a...
HRCA Revised 2020 racing calender
Revised HRCA Racing Calender As we are all aware our planned return to racing on the 22nd/23rd August in Mondello Park has been postponed due to the regional lockdown in Kildare . However as we fall into the coming Autumn months we look forward with great anticipation...
News Update .
NEWS UPDATE . HISTORIC RACING CAR ASSOCIATION (“HRCA”) MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN TO ALL OUR MEMBERS, SUPPORTERS AND FRIENDS I am following up my message dated 16th June 2020 in which I informed you of the dates proposed by Mondello for circuit racing over the...
HRCA Championship Sporting Regulations 2020
2020 HRCA CHAMPIONSHIP SPORTING REGULATIONS GEORGE MANGAN AND SCRATCH CHAMPIONSHIPS INTRODUCTION The Championships will be run in accordance with the GCRs of Motorsport Ireland (“MI”), the International Sporting Code of the F.I.A. and these rules, and the Historic...
Racing in 2020
Organisation of Racing in 2020 In the event that we are able to run races in 2020 (and this is looking very possible) This is a short note to remind everyone that we successfully altered our scoring system at the end of 2019 and reverted to a handicap based racing...
A Message From Our Chairman
HISTORIC RACING CAR ASSOCIATION (“HRCA”) MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN We continue to live through these very difficult and trying times with all playing our part in complying with the restrictions and regulations imposed by the Authorities charged with keeping...
Irish Motorsport in the 1950s
Ok , once again we face a fallow weekend for motorsport . So in an attempt to keep our interest and desire to once again "get out" here are some wonderful images of Irish motorsport taken in the fifties by R.B.Healy . These photos are of exceptionally rare quality for...
Richard White RIP
It is with deep regret that we inform you of the passing of Richard White following a long illness. Although we have not seen Richard in recent years, he was a member of the committee of the Historic Racing Car Association (HRCA) for many years and was...
