JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2020 ....

The first two months of our season were dominated by the weather. We were lucky at our first two competitive events of the year, the East Cork Hot Rod-run McNamara Motorsport Funsprint at Watergrasshill, and the non-championship opening meeting at Waterford Raceway, but the storms "Ciara" and "Dennis" that hit Ireland and the UK in quick succession in February caused two postponements of the re-opening of the Kilflynn Raceway in Co Kerry. On the bright side, both the Motorsport with Attitude and Race Retro shows enjoyed fine, if chilly, weather for their outdoor live action.

MARCH 2020 ....

The Kilflynn event finally went ahead with a good crowd to enjoy two days of rather wet and windy action - we'll hope that the Kerry track will soon see more regular racing again. Straight after our return from Kerry, all Irish Motorsport was put on hold. The Waterford Raceway practice day and championship round 1 on March 21/22 were the first meetings to be announced as postponed, but every other organiser in Ireland quickly followed suit. The UK ovals still had a very  busy weekend on 14/15 March, with the majority of both ORCi and independent tracks in action, although the weather was inevitably postponing the start of the Autograss season.  A day later the UK was following Ireland's example and all of our plans for the year, racing and otherwise, were put on pause ...