RPM Schedule - UTV + RTE + MOTORS TV

Posted: June 18, 2005 5:01 PM

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18/06/05
RPM BILLINGS JULY 2005 on UTV & RTE


UTV Thurs. 3 July 11.30 pm.*
RPM 12 – Shell Donegal International Rally I
A second chance to see the World Rally Car highlights from the fourth round of the Pirelli Irish Tarmac Championship. Pamela Ballantine, Gary Gillespie and Alan Tyndall report.

RTE2 Wed. 6 July 11.30 pm*
RPM on RTE – Ordnance Survey Killarney Rally of the Lakes II
Michael Lyster introduces the Production Car action from the third round of the Pirelli Irish Tarmac Rally Championship where Limerick’s Colm Murphy and Fermanagh’s Gary Jennings are the favourites for victory.

UTV Thurs. 7 July 11.30 pm.*
RPM 13 – Shell Donegal International Rally II
In RPM`s second programme from the fourth round of the Pirelli Irish Tarmac Championship the action turns to the Group N and Modified cars. As always it’s a Subaru versus Mitsubishi affair. Pamela Ballantine, Gary Gillespie and Alan Tyndall report.

UTV Sun. 10 July 12.30 pm.*
RPM 13 – Shell Donegal International Rally II
A second chance to see the Production Car highlights from the fourth round of the Pirelli Irish Tarmac Rally Championship. Pamela Ballantine, Gary Gillespie and Alan Tyndall report.

RTE2 Wed. 13 July 11.30 pm*
RPM on RTE – Ganly Walters Irish Classic Retro Rally
Michael Lyster takes you back in time with the Trials Drivers Club to experience rallying in its pre-special stage era, when Autotests and Navigation were the primary skills, not just speed as it is today. Alan Tyndall reports.

UTV Thurs. 14 July 11.30 pm.*
RPM 14 – Motor Racing Mondello – Formula Vee Festival
Formula Vee is the most popular racing class in Ireland, and the local Vee boys play host to their English rivals as the cream of these budget single-seaters clash in a knockout competition to win the Irish Vee Festival. Alan Tyndall, Leo Nulty and Arnie Black report.

UTV Sun. 17 July 11.30 pm.*
RPM 14 – Motor Racing Mondello – Formula Vee Festival
A second chance to see the Irish Formula Vee Festival from Mondello. Alan Tyndall, Leo Nulty and Arnie Black report.

RTE2 Wed. 20 July 11.30 pm*
RPM on RTE - Junior World Rally Championship
Michael Lyster introduces RPM`s coverage of Dungannon driver Kris Meeke`s progress in the Junior World Rally Championship rounds at Monte Carlo and Mexico.

UTV Thurs. 21 July 11.30 pm.*
RPM 15 – Motor Racing Mondello – Formula Sheane & Historic
Alan Tyndall introduces highlights from the Formula Sheane and the Historic races at the Irish Motor Racing Clubs Mondello meeting. Leo Nulty and Arnie Black report.

UTV Sunday 24 July 12.30 Sunday Morning*
RPM 15 – Motor Racing Mondello – Formula Sheane & Historic
A second chance to see the highlights from the Formula Sheane and Historic races at the Irish Motor Racing Clubs Mondello meeting. Leo Nulty and Arnie Black report.

RTE2 Wed. 27 July 11.30 pm*
RPM on RTE – Shell Donegal International Rally II
Michael Lyster introduces the Production Car highlights from the fourth round of the Pirelli Irish Tarmac Rally Championship. Pamela Ballantine, Gary Gillespie and Alan Tyndall report.

UTV Thurs. 28 July 11.30 pm.*
RPM 16 – Jim Clark International Rally I
Andrew Nesbitt has dominated the Scottish round of the Irish Tarmac Championship for the last three years. With stronger World Rally Car opposition than ever, the Armagh ace endeavours to maintain his dominance of the Jim Clark stages. Pamela Ballantine, Gary Gillespie and Alan Tyndall report.

UTV Sunday 31 July 12.30 Sunday Morning*
RPM 15 – Motor Racing Mondello – Formula Sheane & Historic
A second chance to see the World Rally Car action from the fifth round of the Pirelli Irish Tarmac Rally Championship. Pamela Ballantine, Gary Gillespie and Alan Tyndall report.

Further Details on: www.rpm-motorsport.com

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31/05/05
RPM- IRISH MOTORSPORT WORLDWIDE
2005 has seen further expansion of the RPM television programme, bringing Irish motorsport to more viewers worldwide. As ever the RPM series features the Pirelli Irish Tarmac Rally Championship, but also showcase events such as the Lurgan Park Rally, the Dogleap Stages Rally, and new for this year the Tour Brittania Historic, and Dundrod TT commemoration events, as well as some of the top racing action from Mondello Park.

RPM is now in it’s fourteenth year on Ulster Television, and this years series was fittingly kicked off with a programme about Ireland’s first World Rally Champion- Niall McShea. This year we will be following young Kris Meeke’s fortunes in the Junior World Rally Championship, Kris having already won the first round in Monte Carlo.

For 2005 however viewers will many chances to catch the best of Irish Motorsport on RPM. RPM is being shown on Sky Sports- “Rally Fever” programming, and on Chris Courteyn’s European rally programmes, but excitingly new for 2005 is it’s appearance on Motors TV and RTE. It is all giving our European counterparts a chance to see just how competitive and entertaining the local scene has become.

It is the first time that RPM has been shown on Motors TV, a channel dedicated to motoring. Motors TV will be broadcasting all eight rounds of the Pirelli Irish Tarmac Championship, and also the 50th anniversary Dundrod TT programme. Motors TV reaches a staggering 13 million 220,000 people, in countries such as Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Norway, Holland, Turkey and Bulgaria.

But it’s not only the foreign fields that RPM will be beamed into as “RPM on RTE” starts it’s series on June 1st. The “RPM on RTE” package will feature twenty-four programmes on it’s Wednesday night slot, which features the Irish Tarmac Championship, Ganly Waters Irish Classic Retro, Mondello Motor Racing, the Dundrod TT and the Tour Brittania.

RPM restarts after it’s three week break on the 16th June with a programme on the Ganly Walters Irish Classic Retro Trial, followed by two programmes on the Shell Donegal International Rally, round four of the Irish Tarmac Championship.

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2005 RPM REVISED SCHEDULE FOR UTV
Prog. No. PROGRAMME CONTENT Tx UTV UTV Rep.

1 Niall McShea World Champion 17 Feb. 20 Feb.

2 First Choice Galway Int. Rally I (5-6 Feb.) 24 Feb. 27 Feb.

3 First Choice Galway Int. Rally II + Meteor Electrical Titanic Superspecial. (27 Feb.) 03-Mar 06-Mar


5 WEEK GAP

4 Meteor Electrical Circuit of Ireland Rally I (26-28 March) 14-Apr 17-Apr

5 Meteor Electrical Circuit of Ireland Rally II 21-Apr 24-Apr

6 Motorplus Autotest I Kings Hall (17 April) 28-Apr 01-May

7 Motorplus Autotest II Kings Hall *4 May 08-May

8 Ordnance Survey Killarney Rally of the Lakes I (30 Apr. 1May) 12-May 15-May

9 Ordnance Survey Killarney Rally of the Lakes II 19-May 22-May

3 WEEK GAP (NW 200)

10 Ganley Walters Irish Classic Retro Rally (9-10 April) 16-Jun 19-Jun

11 JWRC Monte + JWRC Mexico 23-Jun 26-Jun

12 Shell Donegal Int. Rally I (17- 19 June) 30-Jun 03-Jul



13 Shell Donegal Int. Rally II + Mondello Formula Ford 07-Jul 10-Jul

14 Mondello Formula Vee Festival (19 June) 14-Jul 17-Jul

15 Mondello F.Sheane & Historics 21-Jul 24-Jul

16 Jim Clark Int. Rally I (8-9 July) 28-Jul 31-Jul

17 Jim Clark Int. Rally II + JWRC Italy 4 Aug. 7 Aug.

18 Dundrod 50th. Anniversary (17-18 June) 11 Aug. 14 Aug.

19 Manx International Rally I (28-30 July) 18 Aug. 21 Aug.

20 Manx International Rally II + JWRC Acropolis 25 Aug. 28 Aug.

*21 Lurgan Park Rally (13 Aug.) 1 Sept. 4 Sept.

22 Dog Leap Rally (6 Aug.) 8 Sept. 11 Sept.

23 Philip White Tyres Ulster Int. Rally I (2-3 Sept.) 15 Sept. 18 Sept.

24 Philip White Tyres Ulster Int. Rally II + JWRC Finland 22 Sept. 25 Sept.

25 Tour Britannia I (5-8 Sept.) 29 Sept. 2 Oct.

26 Tour Britannia II + JWRC Germany) 6 Oct. 9 Oct.

27 Mondello (11 Sept.) Formula Sheane, Fiat Abarths 13 Oct. 18 Oct.

28 Mondello Formula Vee, FF 1600 20 Oct. 23 Oct.

29 Murphy Construction Cork 20 Int. Rally 1 (1-2 Oct.) 27 Oct. 30 Oct.

30 Murphy Construction Cork 20 Int. Rally 2 + JWRC Corsica (16 Oct) & Catalunya (30 Oct.)) 3 Nov. 6 Nov.

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2005 SHEDULE FOR RPM / RTE MOTORSPORTS SHOW
PROG. NO. PROGRAMME CONTENT Date

1 First Choice Flooring Galway International Rally I - WRC Cars (MI) 01-Jun

2 First Choice Flooring Galway International Rally II - Group N Cars 08-Jun

+ Meteor Electrical Titanic Superspecial (MI)

3 Meteor Electrical Circuit of Ireland Rally I - WRC Cars (MI) 15-Jun

4 Meteor Electrical Circuit of Ireland Rally II - Group N Cars (MI) 22-Jun

5 Ordnance Survey Killarney Rally of the Lakes I - WRC Cars (MI) 29-Jun

6 Ordnance Survey Killarney Rally of the Lakes II - Group N Cars (MI) 06-Jul

7 Ganly Walters Irish Classic Retro Rally (MI) 13-Jul

8 JWRC Monte Carlo & Mexico Rallies 20-Jul

+ Motorplus Autotest Final

9 Shell Donegal International Rally I – WRC Cars (MI) 27-Jul

10 Shell Donegal International Rally II - Group N Cars (MI) 03-Aug

+ Mondello Racing Formula Ford.

11 Mondello Motor Racing – Formula Vee Festival (MI) 17-Aug

12 Mondello Motor Racing – Formula Sheane – Historics (MI) 24-Aug

13 Jim Clark International RallyI – WRC Cars 31-Aug

14 Jim Clark International RallyII – Group N Cars 7 Sept.

+ JWRC Italy

15 Dundrod 50th. Anniversary 14 Sept.



16 Manx International Rally I – WRC Cars 21 Sept.

17 Manx International RallyII – Group N Cars 28 Sept.

+ JWRC Acropolis

18 Philip White Tyres Ulster International Rally I – WRC Cars 5 Oct.

19 Philip White Tyres Ulster International Rally I – Group N Cars 12 Oct.

+ JWRC Finland

20 Lurgan Park Rally 19 Oct.

21 Tour Britannia I 26 Oct.

22 Tour Britannia II 2 Nov.

+ JWRC Germany

23 Cork 20 International Rally I – WRC Cars 9 Nov.

24 Cork 20 International Rally II - Group N Cars 16 Nov.

+ JWRC Corsica (23 Oct.) & Catalunya (30 Oct.) (MI)

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2005 RPM – MOTORS TV SCHEDULE
No. Prod. No. Programme Content Times
1 May-02 First Choice Galway Int. Rally I.
The WRC car action from the first round of the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship.
30 April - 11.30 & 17.00
1 May - 02.00 & 05.00
2 May – 17.00 & 01.30
4 May – 15.00
6 May – 16.00, 22.00 & 04.30

2 May-03 First Choice Galway Int. Rally II + Meteor Electrical Titanic Superspecial.
Belfast Rear Wheel Drive Rally Festival and the Group N action from the first round of the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship
7 May- 11.00, 00.30, & 05.00
8 May – 14.30 & 04.30
9 May – 02.30
10 May – 17.30 & 01.00
11 May – 07.00, 23.30& 02.30

3 May-04 Meteor Electrical Circuit of Ireland Rally I.
The WRC car action from the second round of the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship
14 May – 11.30
16 May-18.00 & 06.30
17 May – 13.00 & 00.00
19 May – 15.00
20 May - 07.30 & 16.00

4 May-05 Meteor Electrical Circuit of Ireland Rally II.
The Group N & Modified car action from the second round of the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship
21 May – 12.00
22 May – 13.30
23 May – 01.00
25 May – 06.30
26 May – 17.00
27 May – 07.00 & 20.00

5 May-08 Ordnance Survey Killarney Rally of the Lakes I.
The WRC car action from the third round of the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship
28 May – 12.00 & 03.00
29 May – 22.30
31 May – 01.30
1 June – 08.30, 18.00 & 06.00

6 May-09 Ordnance Survey Killarney Rally of the Lakes II. Group N action from round three of the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship.
Available from 30 May

7 May-12 Shell Donegal Int. Rally I.
The WRC car action from the fourth round of the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship.
Available from 11 July

8 May-13 Shell Donegal Int. Rally II. + Autotest I
The Group N action from the fourth round of the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship.
Available from 18 July

9 May-16 Jim Clark Int. Rally I.
Available from 8 August
10 May-18 Dundrod 50th. Anniversary. A celebration of one of the worlds greatest road races. D Type & C Type Jaguars, Ferraris, Aston Martins, etc. race again over the famous Irish circuit.
Available from 22 August
11 May-19 Manx International Rally I.
Available from 29 August

12 May-20 Lurgan Park Rally.
Available from 12 September

13 May-21 Philip White Tyres Ulster Int. Rally I.
Available from 26 September

14 May-25 Tour Britannia I. Four days of racing and rallying in England in Classic Pre-1976 cars. The British Tour De France Auto.
Available from 10 October

15 May-26 Tour Britannia II. + Autotest II Four days of racing and rallying in England in Classic Pre-1976 cars. The British Tour De France Auto.
Available from 17 October

16 May-29 Murphy Construction Cork 20 Int. Rally I.
Available from 7 November

17 May-30 Murphy Construction Cork 20 Rally II + Autotest III
Available from 14 November

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Further Details on: www.rpm-motorsport.com