Podium finish for Alyx Coby in Athboy
Young Alyx Coby is going from strength to strength this year 13-year-old Alyx Coby, from Newbridge, Co. Kildare, was back on the grid in Athboy, Co. Meath at the weekend as the Motorsport Ireland Karting Championship made its way to the circuit for Round 3 of the series. With the tight and twisty layout of the track making overtaking challenging, achieving a good finish in the day’s two qualifying heats was going to be important....
How I crossed the world’s largest lake…by car
Driving a Mazda CX-5 across Lake Baikal in the depths of Siberia is a test of endurance for car and driver writes Geraldine Herbert From Irkutsk we drive to Listvyanka, a small town on the shores of Lake Baikal. The 60 kilometre road runs through a white forest frozen under thick snow and was laid in just two months in preparation for what should have been a landmark state visit to Russia by the US President Dwight D Eisenhower in...
Fourth place finish for Alyx Coby at Mondello Park.
13 year old Alyx Coby makes her first of three visits to Mondello Park this season for Round 2 of the 2018 Motorsport Ireland Karting Championship 13-year-old Alyx Coby, from Newbridge, Co. Kildare, was on the grid at Mondello Park as the Motorsport Ireland Karting Championship made the first of three visits to the circuit this season. Alyx put in a strong performance last season when the series returned to the Kildare circuit after...
Why Servicing Your Car is Important
Hannah Gordon, our resident Mechanic, explains why servicing your car is important A few years back when the recession was in full swing and people were watching every hard earned cent I noticed a huge decrease in servicing, going from doing 2-3 services a day this was becoming 2-3 services a week. Understandably the lack of disposable income played a huge role in this, customers just wanted the bare minimum done on their vehicles to...
How safe are driverless cars?
The Uber fatality raises questions about the testing of driverless cars and how they mix with people, writes Geraldine Herbert Uber has suspended all tests of self-driving cars after a fatal accident in Arizona last week. It was not the first fatality linked to a driverless car but it was the first time a pedestrian has been killed in a collision with one. Questions are still being asked about what exactly happened, but recently...
One to watch: Órla Lynch
We profile 12 year old Órla Lynch making her name in the competitive world of Motocross At just 12 years old Órla Lynch has contested 2 Motocross championships, the Southern Centre which cover the 26 counties and the Irish which covers the 32 counties. Travelling the length and breath of Ireland the Southern Centre consisted of 6 rounds which took place in Dundalk, Birdhill, Castlelyons, Doon, Derryarkin and Clonroche. The Irish...
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