Irish festival of speed 31st July

h3000

I could not find any thread on this yet in the motors forum so I said I'd post it up..

The Irish festival of Speed is taking place on Sunday in Adare Co. Limerick. Should be quite good... Lets hope so anyway.

Irish festival of speed wrote:

See the MG PB -1936 Limerick Grands Prix Winner driven to victory by Alan Hutchinson at the IFS! Did You Know? In the 30's Limerick hosted 3 Full Grands Prix (equivalent to todays F1) racing ‘Round the Houses’ and streets of Limerick City


New Additions to the 'Supercar & Exotica Paddock' include, De Tomaso Pantera, Ferrari 275 GTB/2 and F430, Jaguar XK140 SE, Renault Sport Spider


New! TVR Club Ireland, The NI Italian Motor Club and Mazda MX5 Club confirm attendance at IFS

Other Car Clubs attending include -DeLorean Owners Club, Alfa Romeo Owners, BMW Driver.net, The Mini Club of Ireland, American Muscle Cars Ireland, Morgan, Maserati.

The Irish Launch of the new Maserati GranTourismo MC Stradale 'confirmed' for the Irish Festival of Speed

The Morgan Club have confirmed the attendance of the New Three Wheeler and Aero 8. They will also perform some practice runs.

http://www.irishfestivalofspeed.com/home/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFbW_-5_sbQ

eljono

I'll be there with the Alfa Owner Club. Loads of cars going from BMW-Driver.net too and Octane.ie

alanclarke1975

I'll be there with the Alfa Owner Club. Loads of cars going from BMW-Driver.net too and Octane.ie

So nothing exotic to look at then (Ducks and runs for cover)




Saved me a trip - thanks for the tip

Seperate

I've prep'd some proper tasty cars for this lads - if you're going you're in for a treat.

Owen

The Mini Club of Ireland will be there too, but I can't bloody well make it. Bugger.

h3000

I'm looking forward to seeing the Morgan three Wheeler in the flesh. it looks great

TestTransmission

Heading to this aswell,heres hoping it's a sunny day

TestTransmission

Great turnout today by the looks of it,hopefully it's built upon and bigger and better next year

Blazer

pity the airshow got cancelled....anyone know the reason why?

EPM

Clouds possibly?

Blazer

EPM wrote: »

Clouds possibly?

at 1000feet? it wasn't that bad

fryup

Good show, better than i tought, good venue too.

Just wish they didn't call it..Festival of "Speed" bit ironic when they were encouraging safe driving from youngsters:cool:

h3000

A few pics from the day in this thread by TestTransmission and myself.

Arthur Daley

Pity there was no aerial display. Pity the Jordan blew up. Pity I missed the Morgan 3 wheeler and was the BRM F1 car from 68/69 there?

But a good show, better than I thought it would be, and fairly well organised and attended. Plenty to occupy for 4/5 hours there today. Good value for a tenner in. A good inaugaral show.

Maybe next year more clubs can attend, and they manage to find a way around the problem of everyone exiting the car park at the same time onto a busy Limerick-Kerry road.

Wetbench4

I wasn't there but I heard some guy wrote his mk1 escort off in a tree. There's always one.

skelliser

skelliser

TestTransmission

Wetbench4 wrote: »

I wasn't there but I heard some guy wrote his mk1 escort off in a tree. There's always one.

ahem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfd9JayxwmE

Hotwheels

A few from yesterday...more here as well..







Wonderful event, well done to all who organized this

Wolverine_1999

Hotwheels wrote: »

A few from yesterday...more here as well..

Wonderful event, well done to all who organized this

Well done getting the cars there.. but what about the spectators! I didn't hear this advertised anywhere nor did a few people I spoke to!

Would have loved to have seen it..

Tea 1000

Good show alright, hope it was received well by everyone and comes back bigger and better next year.
Anyone else spot the mis-badged imposter in the Ferrari camp?

EPM

Dino, yeah?

Don't tell me there was a bloody MR2 showed up at some stage...

The only bad thing I can say is the disaster that was crossing the track to see other parts. Slowed me up a few times.

h3000

EPM wrote: »

Dino, yeah?

Don't tell me there was a bloody MR2 showed up at some stage...

The only bad thing I can say is the disaster that was crossing the track to see other parts. Slowed me up a few times.

That was a bit of a PITA alright. Maybe they can get some sort of temporary pedestrian bridge next year.

Tea 1000

EPM wrote: »

Dino, yeah?

Don't tell me there was a bloody MR2 showed up at some stage...

The only bad thing I can say is the disaster that was crossing the track to see other parts. Slowed me up a few times.

No, no MR2 thankfully. Yep, the Fiat Dino with the Ferrari badges on it. Even a Ferrari Dino shouldn't have any prancing horse on it.
The Fiat Dino is still a nice car alright, but the Ferrari Dino is much nicer. Much more expensive too!

Hotwheels

Wolverine_1999 wrote: »

Well done getting the cars there.. but what about the spectators! I didn't hear this advertised anywhere nor did a few people I spoke to!

Would have loved to have seen it..

It was fairly well publicized on the web, radio and usual papers & Mags..

A fair bit of work went into pulling this off, some of the cars racing you would normally only see behind a rope at a museum..it was great to see them in action and hear the sound...

I've no doubt it will be back Bigger & Better next year..

The final round of the Irish Hillclimb Championship is Held on knockallagh Hill in Donegal on September 3rd & 4th, if you get a chance have a peek, well worth it...

Scarty

Wetbench4 wrote: »

I wasn't there but I heard some guy wrote his mk1 escort off in a tree. There's always one.

eljono

The Next Gear did a good video on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEiUQeYvkDw

and this guy did some cool editing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI4B3FSeaeY

Bigus

This video is as good as being there i'd say

eljono wrote: »

The Next Gear did a good video on it



and this guy did some cool editing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI4B3FSeaeY