This week’s RIAC - Motorsport Ireland classic video from the RPM Motorsport collection is highlights from the 2001 Punchestown Rally Masters.
Outside the box solutions were required to get rallying going in 2001 as Foot and Mouth Disease gripped the country. One such event was the Punchestown Rally Masters, the brainchild of Ronan Morgan, which was a dry run for the Punchestown World Rally Masters which would run later that year. The event reunited Austin McHale with his championship winning Toyota Celica and Billy Coleman with a Metro 6R4 but it was Kenny McKinstry and Andrew Nesbitt who would fight it out for the victory with Nesbitt clinching the win on the final stage to win by 4 seconds.
This programme will be available to stream below from 7pm on May 27th.
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Next week’s upload will feature highlights of the 2001 Barbados Rally where a number of Irish and UK competitors travelled to the Caribbean to try their hand against the locals.
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​This week’s RIAC - Motorsport Ireland classic video from the RPM Motorsport collection is the 1991 Lurgan Park Rally.
The Lurgan Park rally was really beginning to hit its stride in the 90s as more and more big names were drawn to this unique single venue event. Bertie Fisher and Kenny McKinstry were both former winners of the event but even they couldn’t live with ex-works star Tony Pond who had taken his own Metro 6R4 to the park. After a steady opening stage Pond gradually turned up the wick throughout the day to cruise home to a 24 second win, a huge margin on this short, sharp event.
This programme will be available to stream below from 7pm on May 20th.

Next week’s upload will feature highlights of the 2001 Punchestown Rally Masters. The first of a new type of rally type event brought on by Foot and Mouth Disease restrictions, the event saw Austin McHale reunited with his Tarmac Championship winning Toyota Celica and Billy Coleman reunited with a Metro 6R4.
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This week’s RIAC - Motorsport Ireland classic video from the RPM Motorsport collection is circuit racing action from 2001 featuring that season’s Formula Vee title decider as well as the return of Formula 5000.
A massive grid of 32 started round 8 of the 2001 Formula Vee Championship where the experienced Brian Hearty stayed clear of the pack to take a start to finish victory and secure the title despite the best efforts of John McLoughlin. Also featured in this show is Formula 5000 action as this legendary category made a comeback to Mondello. David Kennedy was expected to be the class of the field in a Lola T330 but he was thwarted by a last lap charge from Frank Lyons in his identical machine.
This programme will be available to stream below from 7pm on May 13th.

Next week’s upload will feature highlights of the 1991 Lurgan Park Rally where ex works driver Tony Pond was reunited with a Metro 6R4 to devastating effect.
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​This week’s RIAC- Motorsport Ireland classic video from the RPM Motorsport collection is highlights from the 1996 Killarney Rally of the Lakes.
Following an error prone Circuit of Ireland at Easter, Bertie Fisher was out to make amends a few weeks later on the Rally of the Lakes, one of his favourite events. In near perfect conditions, Fisher eventually secured his sixth win on the event, setting a new record for Molls Gap in the process but he was pushed all the way by Liam O’Callaghan and James Cullen.
This programme will be available to stream below from 7pm on May 6th.

Next week’s upload will feature Formula Vee and F5000 single seater highlights from the 2001 season.
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