​This week’s Motorsport Ireland – RIAC classic video from the RPM Motorsport collection is highlights from a brace of 2001 events, the UK Rally Challenge and the Michelin Nations Cup.
2001 saw a number of unique events across Ireland and the UK as organising clubs tried to work around the restrictions brought about by that year’s Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak. Knockhill in Scotland hosted two such events, the UK Rally Challenge and the Michelin Nations Cup. Both events returned strong results for Irish crews with a podium lockout in the Challenge event and a team win in the Nations Cup.
This programme will be available to stream below from 7pm on July 29th.

Next week’s upload will feature highlights from the 1996 Ulster Rally.
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​We are delighted to confirm that the RIAC Clubhouse restaurant will re-open on the Monday,26th of July for seated dining in a socially distanced manner. The RIAC Member restaurant is open from 9am to 4pm, Monday to Friday. Serving daily specials, using local ingredients and seasonal produce.

No pre-booking is required for seated dining.

To celebrate the return of our members to the dining room we would like to offer complimentary parking from 12-14:00 and a dessert, tea or coffee when dinning in the club.

​We will issue updated dining guidelines once they have been confirmed by the government  so you will know what to expect on your return to the clubhouse dining area.

Until government procedures are confirmed the current  Covid 19 protocols will still be observed while on the clubhouse premises i.e., temperature testing on entry, face coverings must be worn while moving around the clubhouse and in the car park area, use of hand sanitisers, keeping 2 meters apart and our one-way system in and out of the clubhouse.

​The restaurant will continue to offer our daily takeaway menu and gourmet ready meal menu available to collect from the restaurant.

To order simply call Christophe on 0876714368 or email christophe@riac.ie  Monday to Friday 9am - 4pm. Your meal can then be collected from the refrigerated cold counter on the first floor. 

All our staff  look forward to welcoming you all back to the clubhouse with open arms and seeing you over the coming days and weeks ahead.

​This week’s Motorsport Ireland – RIAC classic video from the RPM Motorsport collection is highlights from the 1996 Irish Touring Cars season.
Following the switch to normally aspirated cars in 1995, the following year the Dunlop Irish Touring Car Championship was beginning to gain momentum. Opels, Alfas, Peugeots, Hondas, and Renaults filled the grids of Mondello, Kilkistown and the Phoenix Park all season as Gordon Kellett, Michael Cullen, Jonathan Fildes and Joe Foley battled it out for the 1996 title.
This programme will be available to stream below from 7pm on July 22nd.

​Next week’s upload will feature highlights from a brace of novel 2001 events, the UK Rally Challenge and the Michelin Cup of Nations.
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The RIAC ‘Virtual’ Picnic in the Park supported by Motorsport Ireland in aid of LauraLynn starting 21 July until 02 August 2021.

Unfortunately, Covid is still with us and despite vaccinations, we continue to live in a very restricted environment. This means that a physical “RIAC Picnic in the Park” will have to wait for another year. However the wonderful organisation that is LauraLynn still needs your help and support to ensure that Ireland’s only hospice for children with life-limiting conditions can continue to operate at the highest level possible for those most vulnerable in our lives.

HOW CAN YOU HELP

1. Host a real picnic with your friends and family anytime from now until the 2nd of August and email your photos to info@riac.ie. Include your cherished car or motorcycle or even your pet in the image provided and we will post this on our website.
Then please donate at www.lauralynn.ie/donate using the reference “Picnic”
Use the dropdown section “what inspired your donation” ->“This money is from a fund raising event”-> Type in “Picnic”

2. Post a photo of your picnic to your Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram profile with the hashtag #VirtualPicnicInthePark and tag @riacpicnic, @motorsportirl & @lauralynnhospice where available. Then please donate at www.lauralynn.ie/donateand use the reference “Picnic”
Use the dropdown section “what inspired your donation” ->“This money is from a fund raising event”-> Type in “Picnic”

3. Without hosting a picnic, but you would still like to help,
Then please submit your donation at www.lauralynn.ie/donate and use the reference “Picnic”
Use the dropdown section “what inspired your donation” ->“This money is from a fund raising event”-> Type in “PICNIC”

CHEQUES: If anyone wants to write a cheque then make it out to LauraLynn and either send it direct to them or to Holly Miley, RIAC,33/34 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
Do put in a note referring to the “PICNIC”

We will award a small prize for the photo that best captures the spirit of the occasion!

Please feel free to contact any of the following if you want more information
Organiser: Peter Cosgrave |087 829 7443 | peter.cosgrave55@gmail.com
LauraLynn: Cathy White |087 746 7073 | cwhite@lauralynn.ie
RIAC/Motorsport Ireland: Holly Miley | 01 6775141| holly@riac.ie

​This week’s Motorsport Ireland – RIAC classic video from the RPM Motorsport collection is highlights from the 1996 Dungarvan Hillclimb.
The popular Dungarvan Hillclimb had been included in the Irish Hillclimb Championship for many years, but for 1996, the event also became a counting round of the FIA European Hillclimb Challenge. Unfortunately, the event’s new found status didn’t bring any continental competitors but it did serve up a high class field of home grown talents such as Karl Cleary, Jenny Kennedy, Padraig Forde, Norman Kittle and Richard Young, all of whom were trying to break the 57.6 second barrier to become the first driver to average 100mph over the hill.
This programme will be available to stream below from 7pm on July 8th.

​Next week’s upload will feature highlights from the 1996 Ypres Rally where the RPM cameras journeyed to the continent to follow the progress of Liam O’Callaghan and James O’Brien in their Toyota Celica GT4.
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​This week’s Motorsport Ireland – RIAC classic video from the RPM Motorsport collection is highlights from the 1996 Lurgan Park Rally.
Kenny McKinstry headed into the 1996 Lurgan Park Rally chasing his eight win on the event. Being familiar with the event, McKinstry took RPM and UTV presenter Pamela Ballentine as his co-driver for the day but they were to face stiff opposition from James Cullen and Frank Meagher as well as former Belgian and European Champion, Patrick Snijers. Snijers, who would go on to compete in the event five more times in the coming years, put up a stunning display of car control but it wasn’t enough to catch McKinstry and Ballantine, who prevailed by 4 seconds in the ex Bertie Fisher Subaru Legacy.
This programme will be available to stream below from 7pm on July 1st.

​Next week’s upload will feature highlights from the 1996 Dungarvan Hillclimb
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