In addition to the photoshoot for CMC members and their cars, there will also be a photo session for all past and present members.

This will also take place also on Sunday 22nd August at 3.30pm at the Auburn Lodge Hotel car park.

As Clare Motorclub is celebrating its 30th year it is hoped to gather as many faces from the past...and present.

So please spread the word!!! We would love to see some guys and girls that might have hung up their boots and welcome them back to celebrate the clubs birthday. Im sure we all know of people who might have rallied years ago or who might have taken part in an Autotest at the old Roslevan arms car park...or even the Shannon Industrial estate single stage.

Club PRO and Clare Stages Rally 2010 Clerk of the COurse Dermot Kelleher has again organised a photo shoot for all clare motorclub crews and their cars.

The photoshoot will take place this Sunday August 22nd at 3.30pm sharp in the Auburn Lodge Hotel car park.

All club members are welcome to come along with their car, navigator, suits, boots etc for the photo that will be included in this years event programme.

Press Release 1

The Clare Motor Club Rally Committee are busy with preparations for the 2010 “Irish Court Hotels Clare Stages Rally 2010” which takes place on sunday 19th, September.

Announcing details of the 2010 Irish court hotels Clare stages rally are left to right, Audry Flynn, Dermot Kelleher clerk of the course and Donie Lyne, sponsor Irish court hotels. Photo by Aidan Sweeney photography.

The event is based at the Auburn Lodge Hotel (one of the irish court hotels) on the Gort Road in Ennis again this year. This years event is a counting round of both the Dunlop National Rally Championship and the Top Part West Coast Rally Championship. Donie Lyne and the staff at the Auburn Lodge Hotel have again stepped in as the Main Sponsor  and after last years very successful event they are hoping to make this years even bigger.

Clerk of the course is Dermot Kelleher from Clarecastle, together with his organising team is offering competitors a very compact event featuring three very competitive stages which will be repeated three times. Together with the service park and scrutiny all within walking distance of the hotel the event should prove to be as successful as last years rally.

The Clare Motor Club are also celebrating thirty years of promoting motorsport in County Clare this year. The Club was founded by three motorsport enthusiasts, Dermot Kelleher, Peter Lariner and Paddy Bradley back in 1980 and after helping out as marshalls, stage commanders, Timekeepers etc for neighbouring clubs, Galway, Limerick and also running the Circuit of Ireland Stage as it went through Clare the Club finally got affilliated to Motorsport Ireland on the 23rd. of February 1982.

Once affialiated the Club members organised their first Single Stage Rally at Darragh/ Ballyea just off the Kilrush Road. This was followed by a Forestry Rally in Bodyke in east Clare, single stage events in the industrial estate in Shannon and Lisdoonvarna, a multi stage rally in Kilkee, a Hillclimb along with Autocross and Autotest events.

The Clare Stages Rally was first organised in 1988 by David Hogan and Dermot Kelleher and was based in the Roslevan Arms on the Tulla Road. The Rally has grown from strength to strength and has become one of the premier events in the Dunlop National Rally Calendar and attracts competitors from all over Ireland and England. 

Event regulations will be available to download shortly at the club’s website

www.claremotorclub.com

Dermot Kelleher

Pro Clare Motor Club

It is with regret that Clare Motorclub has to cancel the running of their 2010 Autocross event due to the lack of a suitable venue.

Apologies to all concerned.

Club PRO Dermot Kelleher has compiled a questionnaire to gather information and stories about PAST and PRESENT Clare Motorclub members. The club is 30 years old this year and Dermot is aiming to put together a comprehensive history.

You can download the questionnaire  here on the website or pick one up at a club meeting. Club meetings are held on the last Tuesday night of every month at 9pm in the Auburn Lodge Hotel.

If you know of any past members please make them aware of this and point them in the right direction. There has been a lot of members in the club over the last 30 years and im sure there are many a story still to be told.

Feel free to add in as much extra info as you like with stories and pictures etc. Completed questionnaires may be handed in at club meetings, delivered in person to Dermot or by post to Dermot Kelleher at Clare Abbey, Clarecastle, Co.Clare.

We look forward to hearing from you.

CLARE MOTORCLUB, CELEBRATING 30 YEARS

Next counting round of the Club Championship will be the Clare Stages Rally on the 19th September.

You can now download Clare Motorclubs 2010 membership form here.

Membership this year is €25 and completed forms should be sent to;

Dermot Kelleher, Clare Abbey, Clarecastle, Co.Clare.