Dilly Double at Tullyroan Opener!

The season opening meeting at Tullyroan Oval saw an excellent turnout of competitors, with meeting sponsor Thomas Dilly of Portadown-based DRS Steelbuildings taking a polished heat and final double in the National Hot Rods division. Ballymena’s Jonny McMillan came out on top of a well subscribed 2.0 Hot Rods field with a clear final victory, whilst the other feature race winners were Tam Agnew (Lightning Rods), Paddy Murphy (Superstox) and Sam McNeice (Junior Productions).

The seventh round of Simpson Race Exhausts World Series NI for National Hot Rods got off to the worst possible start, with a big crash for the new car of John Christie during the warm up laps for heat one. That ruled him out for the evening unfortunately, with Thomas Dilly taking victory after a scrap with Simon Kennedy. Kennedy looked all set to grab the heat two honours until he clipped a spinning Jaimie McCurdy, putting him out on the spot. Gary Woolsey picked up the pieces to grab the win over Glenn Bell and Dilly.
By final time we had one dry line available, which made overtaking nigh on impossible. Dilly led them off but soon had Woolsey, Shane Murray, Bell and the rest queued up behind. The pressure on Thomas was immense, but he held his nerve to take the victory over Woolsey and Murray.

A very healthy field of 2.0 Hot Rods took to the track, with Ryan McClure and Ryan McCrory battling hard at the front of the field. McClure took the flag but was then excluded from the remainder of the meeting following a tyre logging error. That handed the win to McCrory over Denver Grattan and Stephen Emerson, with Irish Champion Adam Best then coming through to win an untidy second heat over Michael Woods.
Colin McFarland led the initial laps of the final, but Jonny McMillan soon powered past in his Tigra to take a huge lead. A loose wheel on the raceway brought the caution flags out with just one lap remaining, but Jonny rode out the one lap shootout to grab the silverware ahead of McCrory and Emerson.
Stuart Agnew made his debut in the Lightning Rods and very quickly settled into the groove, reeling off two heat wins in some style. In heat one he held off World Champion Nigel Jackson before coming home clear of Aaron Brunton in heat two. An upgrade for Stuart before the final was always going to make things much more difficult, but his brother Tam stepped forward to land the silverware and complete a family clean sweep for the night. James McKinney made Tam work hard for his win, coming home a close second ahead of Richard Stewart.

Ed Davis kicked off his Superstox season in style with victory in the opening heat, just about holding on despite Irish Champion Kyle Beattie’s last corner lunge with the bumper. Heat two saw a clear win for Steven Haugh from the front of the grid with Beattie once again in second. Haugh again impressed in the final, pulling clear only to be left heartbroken when he picked up a puncture with less than two laps remaining. Paddy Murphy sensationally took over to snatch a last gasp victory over Beattie and Davis.

An encouraging field of young Junior Production drivers took to the track, with Abbie McKinstry driving superbly to land an excellent win in the opening heat ahead of Alex Milligan. Matthew Weir impressed in heat two, leading for much of the distance before losing out to a great outside run from Sam Percy. Callum Magill took a deserved second at the line.
Weir again had a great run in the final, but he lost the lead just past the halfway mark as Sam McNeice stormed through to take the feature race win over Percy and Magill.

Many thanks to our meeting sponsors, DRS Steelbuildings

Added 17/03/20

2020 Race Dates Now Online!

DMC Race Promotions are pleased to release our 2020 race dates, and we can all look forward to another exciting season of short oval motorsport at Tullyroan Oval and Aghadowey Oval with some excellent events in store.

The headline meeting of the year will be the 2.0 Hot Rods Championship of the World which will be defended by England's Dave Leech at Aghadowey Oval over the weekend of July 18th/19th. That Summer Speedweekend will also see the Lightning Rods European Championship up for grabs as well as the National Championship for Ninja Karts. An exciting addition to the weekend will be the first Ulster visit of the BriSCA National Ministox - one of the must-see formulas on the UK ovals at present.

The National Hot Rods British Championship, the Superstox European Championship and the Classic Hot Rods Irish Open Championship headline the September Speedweekend at Tullyroan Oval on September 26th/27th, whilst another huge event will be Shamwreck 2020 for the Unlimited National Bangers at Tullyroan Oval on Sunday May 31st.

Other major championships up for grabs include the Stock Rods British Championship at Aghadowey Oval on August 22nd, and evening that will also see the National Hot Rods race in the last ever staging of The Davy Evans Memorial Trophy, which returns to its original venue for one last lap.

There is a packed race schedule, probably our strongest ever, featuring all our exciting formulas, with an early start in March and running right through to November.

As always we have some fantastic marketing opportunities available across these meetings. We will be contacting our existing backers over the coming weeks, but if you would like to get your company noticed at DMC Race Promotions please drop us an email to info@dmcracepromotions.com to discuss your requirements.

Please note that all fixtures are subject to change

Click Here To View 2020 Fixtures

Added 20/01/20

Swaffham Raceway

In the last 14 days the ORCi has learnt that the stadium owners made a decision to accept an offer from a different prospective promotional team to take over operations at Swaffham Raceway from the 1st February.

As all who know Pete Gould would understand, he has become extremely well respected and worked tirelessly for a number of years trying to re-establish the raceway with considerable success and at considerable personal cost.

In late 2018 / early 2019 the ORCi accepted Swaffham and, with further investment in his operation from Pete, joined the ORCi.

This potentially opened up the venue to more mainstream formulae and exciting plans for 2020 were at an advanced stage.

Sadly, in just recent weeks, despite offers of support and meetings involving other ORCi promoters supporting Peter, the owners took a decision to change.

Whilst the ORCi have not been in direct contact with the new promotion, neither have they been in contact with us however they have made it clear in their announcement they wish to operate independently.

This was discussed at a recent ORCi meeting and we are saddened for Pete, together with assistance volunteered with others to secure the stadium for Pete and ORCi formulae.

Mr Gould has been offered support from the ORCi where it can to find ways for him to move forward
however, given the circumstances as part of that support the ORCi advises that:
Any driver racing in any formula at Swaffham will receive a 12 month ORCi ban which will be reset every time that driver races there.

If there are any further developments, then the ORCi will issue further guidance.

Added 15/01/20

ORCi Rules Of Racing Amendment - Restarts

The Oval Racing Council would like to announce the following amendments to the “Rules of Racing” with regard to the lining up of cars for restarts, and the reinstatement of cars. These amendments are effective immediately, and apply to all formulas.

Restart Order
Cars will be lined up, in preparation for the restart, in the on-track order prevailing prior to the race suspension (yellow flags) or race stoppage (red flags). Any lapped cars in-between those occupying the top six positional places in the race will be sent around the track, in the direction of racing, to the rear of the grid, and will be credited with regaining one lap back in the race. This means that when the race is restarted at least the top six cars will be in positional order on the track without any back-markers in between.

A driver must NOT un-lap themselves unless instructed to by an official. Any driver un-lapping themselves without permission will be liable to exclusion from the restart.

Incorrect Exclusion
The Steward of the Meeting is empowered to re-instate any driver being, in their opinion, incorrectly taken out of the race during a suspension or stoppage.

Added 14/01/20

Wheelspin Magazine

Attention DMC Drivers!

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Added 03/01/20

Dunn Takes Inaugural NI Accident Services Entertainers League Victory

During 2019 the National Bangers competed for the first ever NI Accident Services DMC Race Promotions Entertainers League, which fell the way of Leonard Dunn after a thrilling year long contest. Following Leonard in the standings were Tony Gillespie, Rodney Herron, Stevo McGrath and Steven Bolton.

The Entertainers League saw drivers get points for booking in and turning up, using fresh, rare and painted cars as well as the entertainer of each race and competing in DD's. It has been a great addition to the local National Banger scene and will continue into 2020.

Leonard will receive his trophy at an upcoming meeting as well as a nice cash bonus courtesy of our kind sponsor, Lee Johnston at NI Accident Services. The top five also receive bonus points for the main DMC Points Chart for their achievements.

Click Here to View NI Accident Services Entertainers League Points

Added 01/01/20

Race Receivers

Statement from ORCi:

Following trials with a number of formulas in 2019, the ORC are rolling out the use of Race Receivers to all formulas run on ORC circuits in 2020 with the exception of adult banger formulas (Junior Banger drivers will need to use them).

Race Receivers enable the Steward of the meeting to be in contact with all drivers at all times and has proven to assist with the safe, effective running of a meeting and races and the ORC are hoping that the introduction of these are seen as a major step forward by the Oval Racing Council.

A Race Receiver is an important piece of safety equipment like your helmet and overalls and it will be compulsory for drivers to have a working race receiver during a race – failure to have one will see you not being allowed to race.

Race receivers will be available to purchase from many stadium trackshops up and down the country and they are also available to purchase by mail order from Spedeworth through the link below;

https://www.spedeworthfabrications.com/index.php?manufacturers_id=74

The cost of these are £95 (Including VAT)

It will be mandatory to use race receivers at all ORC meetings in all formulas (with the exception of adult banger classes) from the 29 February 2020

Added 28/11/19

Congratulations to Our 2019 Points Champions!

DMC Race promotions would like to congratulate all our 2019 Points Champions across the various formulas. As well as speed and results on track, to win the season long points takes consistency and hard work from the driver and his team throughout the season.

The list of points winners is as follows:

1300 Stock Cars 2019 Autoweld NI Points Champion - 212 Nicky Lowry

2.0 Hot Rods 2019 Racemart NI Points Champion - 959 Adam Best

Junior Productions 2019 A McKeown & Son NI Points Champion - 917 Graham Meek

Lightning Rods 2019 Maxwell Freight Services NI Points Champion - 902 Nigel Jackson

National Bangers 2018/19 DMC Points Champion - 215 Leonard Dunn

National Hot Rods 2019 Cirrus Plastics DMC Race Promotions Points Champion - 9 Glenn Bell

Ninja Karts 2019 ASC Cars NI Points Champion - 984 Max Hobson

ProStocks 2019 Ryan Wright Signs NI Points Champion - 133 Steven Haugh

Rookie Bangers 2018/19 DMC Points Champion - 143 Paul O'Connor

Stock Rods 2019 Maxwell Freight Services NI Points Champion - 944 Derek McMillan

Superstox 2019 Mk2 Escort Shells & Spares NI Points Champion - 914 Lee Davison

Thunder Rods 2019 N Purdy & Sons NI Points Champion - 87 James Goldie

Congratulations to all the drivers, and many thanks to all the award sponsors.

Added 30/10/19