PRINCESS OF IRISH RACING POSSESSES “WINNING APTITUDE”
FOURTEEN YEAR OLD TEENAGE TRACK STAR TARGETS F1 POLE POSITION Stirling Moss, retired F1 driver comments from earlier this week regarding women’s “lack of mental aptitude for Formula One”, have upset many, but only driven Ireland’s most talented motoring star on even further. At only 14 years of age Dubliner Nicole Coffey is already an accomplished... [Read more...]
Superstar Irish Karter Coffey to compete in Bahrain
November 8, 2012 by Declan Lee
Nicole will be jetting off to Bahrain to take part in the CIK / FIA Karting Academy Trophy after a successful end to the Irish Karting Championship recently
The Princess of Irish motorsport, Nicole Coffey, heads to Bahrain this weekend to compete in the CIK / FIA Karting Academy Trophy. Coffey may only be 14-years-old but she is starting to make big waves in Irish motorsport. At the recent Irish Karting Awards she came home with trophies for the All Ireland Karting Championship, the Munster Karting Club... [Read more...]
Nicole Coffey: OMG AGAIN! I won the SKC, the MKC and the IKC ‘Young Driver of the Year’. What a year!
October 30, 2012 by Nicole Coffey
Nicole has had a hugely successful season but its not over yet as she jets off to Bahrain in a couple of weeks for the final CIK-FIA Academy Trophy round
I attended the Karting Awards on Friday night and I was delighted. As well as receiving amazing trophies for 1st place in the Munster Karting Club Championship, 1st place in the the Southern Karting Club Championship and 2nd place in the Motorsport Ireland Championship, I was also awarded The Irish Karting Club’s ‘Young Driver of the Year’! On... [Read more...]
Nicole Coffey: OMG I won the most amazing prize ever!!!!
October 5, 2012 by Nicole Coffey
A delighted Nicole Coffey with her IRL Plate for winning the All Ireland Karting Championship. Photo: John & Karla Coffey
Last weekend was the last round of the 2012 Karting season. We arrived at Pallas Karting Circuit in Tynagh and The Motorsport Ireland Minimax Karting Championship was hanging in the balance between myself and Gary Donnelly from Northern Ireland. Talk about tension! I focused hard and had a great day on track scoring a 2nd in Heat 1, 1st in Heat 2 and... [Read more...]
Aron Smith: A chance to give something unique back to where it all began!
October 2, 2012 by Aron Smith
Nicole will enjoy a fantastic weekend as Aron's VIP guest at Rounds 25, 26 & 27 of the 2012 BTCC in Silvertone this weekend. Photo: Leo Nulty
So an idea I’ve been toying with for a couple of months finally got put into action at the weekend. I remember when my whole life revolved around going karting at the weekend. I used to eat, sleep and drink it so as you can imagine going to the final round of the Motorsport Ireland kart championship was like going back home for me. Since I finished... [Read more...]
Nicole Coffey: Racing in Braga
I raced on Sunday in the final of The Academy Trophy in Braga, Portugal. Due to an incident in the pre-final, I had to start the main Final from the back of the grid of 28 karts. I made a great start and was up to 20th by the end of the first lap, my times were really good & I continued to make up places. I had made it up to 13th place when another... [Read more...]
Coffey begins FIA Academy Trophy Adventure
July 6, 2012 by Declan Lee
Nicole reports that she is finding the track very technically challenging but making good progress
In Portugal, some potential future world champions of motorsport will be competing at the CIK FIA Karting Academy Trophy, including two of Ireland’s best young karters, Odhran Henry from Meath and Nicole Coffey from Dublin. The first round of the Academy takes place this weekend in Braga, Portugal, with following rounds taking place in France and... [Read more...]
Busy busy busy since the big launch!
June 28, 2012 by Leo
Dan Daly's Reynard looked superb at the launch of Motorsport.ie in the Naas Court Hotel. Photo: Con Connolly
Seán Doyle has been impressive this season. Photo: Con Connolly Well, it’s about a month since the launch of Motorsport.ie and it has been busy busy busy. From day one the support has been unbelievable so thank you to anyone who helped and of course to you, the readers! The driver blogs have been really popular, and I have tried to ensure that they... [Read more...]
Nicole Coffey: OMG!!! – the FIA have selected ‘ME’ to compete in the CIK-FIA Academy Trophy!!
Hi, I’m Nicole Coffey, I’m 13 years old and I’m currently the one of the only girls in Ireland who is Karting regularly and racing in every round of the Motorsport Ireland Championship. As well as being interested in all the normal girl things, I absolutely love everything about Motor Racing and speed. I started karting near the end of the 2009... [Read more...]
