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Season Ends On A Sonny Note!

The final rounds of both 2010 championships took place on a pleasantly sunny Saturday in late September at the last race meeting on the Kirkistown calendar. Up to 2 litre class honours had been decided in Stephen Daly’s favour in both Magic Bullet championship and Leinster Leader Trophy, while John Daly still had a mathematical chance of the large class title should disaster strike pace setter Dan Daly. Outright honours though, were all to play for in the Daly family, but it looked as if it was game over before any of the action took place with Stephen Daly’s decision to concentrate on the Formula Ford races in preparation for the end of season festival events.

A promising entry of 14 was depleted as a result of various maladies before qualifying, Paul Dagg’s miserable season in particular continuing with problems during Friday testing indicating he may not have cured his Leinster Trophy woes. Dan Daly set the pace in qualifying, staying sufficiently ahead to take pole for both races with Ivor Greenwood piping Eugene Heary to join Daly on the front row. It was similarly close between Philip Shields and Peter Dwyer for the next 2 places while Jack Frost completed row 3 in the rapid little Dallara Hayabusa. With John Downey’s withdrawal it meant just 4 starters in the over 2 litre class, and consequently the reduced points for a win in that class put paid to John Daly’s outside chance of championship success. An electrical problem struck the Heary Reynard at the start of the first race, and with Philip Shields rotating the Tatuus Honda off the line, the marshals had a busy time clearing the grid before the field came round at the end of lap 1. Ivor Greenwood gamely hung on to the Daly Reynard initially while Eamon Matheson having blitzed his way up to third on the opening lap had to retire the Mission on lap 5, a seized water pump playing havoc with the ‘busa motor. A late race safety car to deal with the burning remnants of another ‘busa motor in Jack Frost’s Dallara bunched the field for a last lap dash, but Daly prevailed in the end from Greenwood, Peter Dwyer and Jim Larkham, with Geoffrey Moffett and Philip Shields rounding out the finishers.

Race 2 was red flagged on the first lap after a clash at Colonial between Peter Dwyer and Ivor Greenwood which put the latter out on the spot. Dwyer hobbled back to the pits to retire as well, but sterling work by the Daly crew on the pit road got the damage repaired and car and driver were despatched back out to the grid for the restart. Eugene Heary meanwhile had exorcised the gremlins from his car and kept Daly honest throughout the race while Dwyer hung on as best as he could and Jim Larkham nursed the Radical home 2 laps adrift.

It was game, set and match then to the elder Daly in the Magic Bullet stakes, Dan lifting the outright and large class titles while Stephen contended himself with 2 litre honours. Runners up to Dan were John Daly (no relation) and Ken Fildes, and to Stephen were Peter Dwyer and Jim Larkham. Stephen’s contentment turned to joyous disbelief almost as it emerged that between reduced points and dropped scores in the Leinster Leader Trophy he had managed to scoop that title outright by the narrowest of margins! A remarkable achievement for young Stephen in his first season of Formula Libre.

Huge thanks to our sponsors Magic Bullet for their involvement with us this year; we hope that it has been of some benefit to them in raising awareness of their new product, and we look forward to our championship awards night!

Click here for full results: http://www.mylaps.com/results/showevent.jsp?id=603840

Click here for final Leinster Trophy 2010 standings

Click here for final Magic Bullet All Ireland 2010 standings

2012 Calender

April 15 - Mondello Park National
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April 28 - Kirkistown
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May 12/13 - Bishopscourt (non championship)
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May 26 - Kirkistown
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July 1 - Mondello Park National
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August 18/19 - Phoenix Park (non championship)
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September 8/9 - Mondello Park International
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September 29 - Kirkistown
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