Midland Forest Rally - 22 May 22 - CANCELLED

EVENT CANCELLED - Midland Motor Club Statement

Posted: May 6, 2022 2:13 PM

"It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we in Midland Motor Club have to make an extremely tough decision regards our upcoming rally.

Due to circumstances beyond the clubs control and following tireless work with our friends and colleagues in Coillte and the added help from the Motorsport Ireland office we have unfortunately lost access and use of up to 1/3 of the rally millage.

Taking this into consideration and trying to give the competitor’s best value for their entry money we have to make the hard decision to cancel the Midland Motor Club forestry rally due to take place on the 22nd of May 2022.

As you can imagine this is not a decision the club takes lightly so close to the event and having so much work done to date but all other possible options including postponing to later in the motorsport calendar have been looked at. We hope that competitors understand the reason for the cancelation of the event. We wish to thank all the businesses of Drumshanbo and surrounding areas that had come on board to support and sponsor the event along with the near 80 competitors that had entered and paid to take part in the event. The club will be in contact with competitors during the coming days.

We are just going to carefully pack the paperwork away for this year and build for the rally’s return in 2024 and we look forward to welcoming each and every one to the event."

Yours in Motorsport,
Seamus McTigue
Clerk of the Course

Press Release 2

Posted: April 18, 2022 4:54 PM

Midland Motor Club will run round 3 of the Irish forestry rally championship on Sunday 22nd May 2022. The event will run out of the Mayflower Hall in Drumshanbo, Co Leitrim. The club are delighted to have joint sponsors on board for the event in McCormack Contracting Inc and McCaffertys Bars. The rally is also round 3 of the Motorsport Ireland Junior rally series (J1000) and round 4 of the MI Junior Rally series 2022.

The rally will consist of 8 special stages over 55 kms with service at the Lough Allen Hotel Drumshanbo before ss1 with a further 3 services throughout the day. Regs are now available via www.Shannonsports it.ie and through the Sportity rally app. Preferred entries through Shannonsportsit.ie.
Entry fee, main field €750 or Junior (J1000) €495.
Sportity password in MFR2022.
Entries to Josephine Lane Flynn, Raven’s Rock, Stonepark, Longford,N39 T9V2.

Preparations are well under way with Clerk of the Course Seamus McTigue and his team who have been busy planning for this much anticipated event.

The Motorsport Ireland Forest Rally Championship runs a Reverse Order Seeding policy for 2WD crews that run first on the road while the following 4WD section run in normal seeding order. Of the Seven Championship Rounds, the best Five count towards the Championship Crown.

On Line Entry / Sportity Password

Posted: April 18, 2022 4:51 PM

Shannon Sports IT (EVO On line Entry) - Login Page

Sportity password is MFR2022

Promo Video

Posted: April 13, 2022 5:13 PM

Press Release 1

Posted: April 12, 2022 5:07 AM

Midland Motor Club are delighted to announce the running of a forestry rally this May 2022. The rally is round 3 of the Irish forestry rally championship and round 3 of the Motorsport Ireland Junior rally series 2022.
The event will run out of the Mayflower Hall in Drumshanbo, Co Leitrim. The last rally ran by the club was the 2019 Longford multi stages rally and the club missed out in 2021 due to COVID so there is great anticipation among the rally fraternity to have a major motorsport event back in the region.
Midland motor club are based in Longford, Roscommon and Leitrim and run many events from autocross to night navigations trials, autotests to special stages rallies.
The event will take place on Sunday 22nd May and service area for the event will be at the Lough Allen Hotel in Drumshanbo, Leitrim.
The rally itself will consist of 8 stages with a total 55 kilometres through forestry land owned by Coillte passing through counties Leitrim and Roscommon.
Preparations are well under way in order to run a safe and enjoyable event.
Regulations for the event will be available next week on clubs website and on the Sportity rally app.

Club Website

Posted: April 12, 2022 5:05 AM

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