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All Blog Posts, Category_Rallying, Category_Track Day Information, galway, international, Rally - September 16, 2020

Mud Sweat & Gears in the West: Galway International 2017

Winter is such an odd time. All the glory and success of the last year is parked in a corner, cars are rolled into garages, spanners earn their keep and generally everyone presses a big reset button. As the days shorten to nothing more than a quick blast of sunlight and the roads descend into a grimy hell, plans are a-brewing. year is the very same. Be it tinkering with new parts, dealing in new cars or even deciding on which events & championships to attack, the rally community keeps ticking over at a ferocious paces. Rumours swirl of who...

How To Get Into Sim Racing & Set Up

For many the thought of owning a fast road car or track car is a distant dream. We simply don't have the means to spend thousands of euros per year for a few days of track time and don't have the discipline to spend hour after hour in a cold shed inevitably fixing what we broke at the last trackday. As if that wasn't a big enough barrier to motorsport, in this country we only have one real race track (Mondello) if you don't count karting tracks and for the majority of people, it takes hours to get there and...

Meeke & The Monte

Ahh January. A time to clear the mind and body, look forward to the year ahead, plan summer holidays and survive on pennies after blowing all the wages at Christmas. A tranquil time with not much going on. But then there’s the Monte!! The traditional curtain raiser for the World Rally Championship, Rallye Monte Carlo is a legendary prospect. All the off season talk and gossip is done with, anti-lag is primed and tonight the 2017 season roars into life. This particular off season has been unlike any other in recent times. The main point early on was the new...

How Drifting Is Judged : Talk With Kieran Hynes

Have you ever looked at the world of drifting and wondered what on earth are they doing? Destroying tires often in a couple of laps-wait I mean corners!Spending thousands on cars with engines producing four figure brake horsepower. I have followed drifting since we started FreshFix back in 2010, I can honestly say now that I have never really understood the rules 100%. Recently Rob and I were down at the Irish amateur drift championship and wanted to answer all the questions we had. Thankfully head judge Kieran Hynes gave us some of his time to explain exactly how the...

Rob's Car History Past & Present

By way of an introduction and rather than telling you how I enjoy reading and long walks in the country or whatever else people put in bio's I though i'd just post up my car history. If you're a died-in-the-wool car guy you'll probably get a much better idea of who I am that way anyway! Like a lot of petrolheads of meager means my car history is interspersed with some gems is but largely made up of cheap, mediocre turds - usually a necessity whilst waiting to buy the next cool thing... or while paying the price of the...

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