Updated Junior format for 2025 Irish Tarmac Championship
2023 Irish Tarmac Champion Callum Devine driving an Opel Adam R2 on the 2017 Donegal International Rally. Photo by Adam Hall.
Organisers of the NAPA Auto Parts Irish Tarmac Championship are excited to reveal that the Paul Browne Plant Hire & Civil Engineering Junior ITRC will be split into two categories for 2025.
Fighting for Homologated Junior ITRC honours will be Group R2 (RC4) cars homologated before 31 December 2018 and conforming to 2018 Appendix J, Art. 260.
Meanwhile, Class 16 crews will compete for the Modified Junior Irish Tarmac Rally Championship.
The new regulations have been introduced for the series’ opening round, the West Cork Rally. Junior competitors will tackle all of Sunday’s stages totalling an impressive 92 kilometres.
Full details of the regulations can be found on the Irish Tarmac website:
Junior ITRC continues to have category sponsor Paul Brown Plant Hire & Civil Engineering onboard for its 2025 campaign.
Paul Browne Plant Hire & Civil Engineering was founded in 1995. Based in Glanmire, the business services the Cork region focusing on housing developments and different public projects.
Company director, Paul Browne has a long relationship with rallying in Ireland and is chairman of the Munster Car Club. He has also been the Clerk of the Course for the Cork 20 International and Moonraker Forest Rally.
Colman Hegarty, TROA chairman:
“The organising committee of the ITRC decided to run a class for R2 cars in Junior ITRC because there are many young competitive crews out there with R2 cars. While they have a relatively modern homologated car there was no class catering for them as they would not be competitive against the newer Rally4 cars.
“We see this new structure as a way of encouraging R2 crews to compete in a class designed specifically for them.”