Rory Cummins: The demise of our ‘Staircase of Talent’

July 10, 2012 by Rory Cummins  

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Neil Shanahan - one of the great Irish talents to come up through the ranks of single seater racing in Formula Ford. Photo: Con Connolly

One of the things that I like to do most is look back over my collection of Autosports.  Open one of the boxes containing a mid nineties year and an hour disappears in a heartbeat.  During a recent perusal I paused upon a report dealing with the TOCA package.  The usual smattering of Clios and Fiestas was followed by four single seater classes, Formulas... [Read more...]

Gary Thompson: My story so far…

May 30, 2012 by Gary Thompson  

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Gary in his Aviation Display Formula 3 car at Fuji. Photo: Garythompsonracing.com

Hi Everyone, I’m Gary Thompson and welcome to my new blog here on Motorsport.ie. I’ll start by giving a bit of background on my racing career so far. I’ve been racing involved in racing for around ten years now. I started back in 60cc Cadet karts when I was just 9 years old. My first year went pretty well and I started racing in the UK the following... [Read more...]