Saibh Watkins, aged 10, has just started competing in sporting car trials as a Junior Junior!  

A weekend long battle between Frank Meagher and Austin McHale went all the way on the 1995 Irish Tarmac Rally Championship opener, with the balance tipping in Frank's favour on the final stage. It was to be the start of the most successful season of the Tipperary driver's career.

There will be three Pinnacle Motorsport cars on the grid when the 2025 Formula 4 Middle East Championship gets underway this weekend. The Motorsport Ireland-licensed team confirms Wang Yuzhe, Kyuho Lee, and Yuta Suzuki for its lineup at the Yas Marina Circuit.

Throughout 2024 the Motorsport Ireland Women in Motorsport Commission highlighted some of the remarkable women in motorsport across the country on social media and through the Motorsport Ireland Monthly Bulletins and articles on the website. Below is a snapshot of some of the great stories that we shared, and we look forward to engaging with many more in 2025!

The brainchild of Alec Poole and Fred Gallagher, the Tour Brittania was born as a recreation of the old Tour of Britain which was a mixture of rallying and circuit racing.

RPM travelled to Birmingham for the Autosport International Show to get all the latest gossip ahead of the 1995 season. Their cameras also visited Prodrive to see what goes on behind the scenes while a number of Irish Tarmac Rally Champioship hopefuls shook their cars down at Mondello Park ahead of the Galway International Rally.

Alister McRae and Freddy Loix were the guest stars for the Punchestown Rally Experience in 2004. Celebrities like Ken Doherty, Brian O'Driscoll and Shane Horgan got passenger runs in the hot seat while the event ran a novel super special format and at the end of the day it was Andrew Nesbitt who emerged victorious.

Hanna Celsie proved she was on the pace to comfortably qualify at the Dubai Autodrome race circuit for next May’s FW Nations Cup finale.

After a year of development, working closely with Irish-based Ignite Software, Motorsport Ireland is proud to unveil our new digital licence system to cater for the growing needs of our community.

Motorsport Ireland Rally Academy driver Josh McErlean will join the M-Sport Ford World Rally Team in 2025, driving a Ford Puma Rally1 in the FIA World Rally Championship, Co-driven by fellow Academy member Eoin Treacy.

A trio of Group A Subaru Imprezas battled it out on this event with Derek McGarrity having to contend with the recently crowned British National Rally Champion Kenny McKinstry and former Belgian and European Rally Champion, Patrick Snijers. McKinstry proved unstoppable, taking a comfortable win ahead of McGarrity as Snijers slipped off the road. A third place finish for Denis Biggerstaff was enough to secure the 1999 Northern Ireland Rally Championship in his Metro 6R4.

The 2025 Galway International Rally which takes place for the 47th time on February 1st & 2nd is the oldest international rally on the Irish Motorsport calendar having first run in 1971.

At a recent meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Kigali, Motorsport Ireland licence holder and Cork Motor Club member Niall Geaney was reappointed as a member of the FIA Cost Cap Adjudication Panel (CCAP).

Motorsport Ireland are delighted to announce the Dacia Sandero Challenge Cup, in collaboration with Murray Motorsport, and Cedar Motors Ltd.

This upload covers the 1999 Yokohama Fiat Uno Cup which provided huge grids and huge action as the 1300cc screamers bounced and bumped their way around Kirkistown and Mondello Park.

Former Sexton Trophy Young Racing Driver of the Year, Alex Denning recently competed in the GT4 European Series Finale in Jeddah.