Welcome to NIF2.com, providing insight into stock car racing in Northern Ireland from behind the lens. We aim to feature as much as we can from Nuttscorner Oval, Ballymena Raceway and Tullyroan Oval when it opens, as well as bits and pieces from our travels.

Added: 12 May 2012 Category: 2012 Oval Racing 2012 - #14 - Ballymena Raceway - 11/5/12 With not feeling well the previous Friday night and having to work May Day, two weeks seems like a long time during racing season to have not been at the racing. [see the full article]   Added: 10 May 2012 Category: 2012 Oval Racing Tullyroan Oval - Latest Pics On Tuesday night I had my first trip to Tullyroan since last October, I’m pleased to say it looks a little more like a Stockcar track now (or a Hot Rod track, depending on your perspective), and what a sight it is for sore eyes. [see the full article]   Added: 01 May 2012 Category: 2012 Oval Racing 2012 - #13 - Belle Vue - 29/4/12 Another day, another track I'd never been to. I've been quite well travelled this season, and Belle Vue was the 7th track I've been to this season. When this trip was booked earlier in the year we knew nothing of the plans for Rob Speak's big Aspire fundraiser, so it was an added bonus to see oval racing most succesful star in action again and brought back memories of the 99 season as Speak jumped from one car to the other. [see the full article]   Added: 01 May 2012 Category: 2012 Oval Racing 2012 - #12 - Stoke - 28/4/12 Another trip away and another venue I haven't been at before as well as my first glimpse of classic banger racing and V8 Hot Stox. When the trip was first booked it looked as thought it would make it the first meeting I'd miss at Tullyroan, but as it has worked out I missed the last meeting at Nuttscorner Oval instead. [see the full article]   Added: 23 Apr 2012 Category: 2012 Oval Racing 2012 - #11 - Nuttscorner Oval - 22/4/12 So that's it then, the end of an era at Nuttscorner, for me anyway, a trip to see the Tooz on the brown stuff next weekend will keep me away from the last meeting at Nuttscorner as Nuttscorner Oval, so for me it's no more trips to what is effectively my local track. [see the full article]   Added: 19 Apr 2012 Category: Older Oval Racing Shamwreck 2006-2011 As we approach what should be the last National Banger meeting at Nuttscorner Oval and certainly the last Shamwreck at Nuttscorner Oval, I thought I’d do a piece to reflect on the Shamwrecks that have gone before. [see the full article]   Added: 15 Apr 2012 Category: 2012 Oval Racing 2012 - #10 - Nuttscorner Oval - 14/4/12 Hard to believe it’s only the middle of April and I’m already notching up my tenth meeting of the year. Looking back at 2011 it was the 8th of May before I’d taken in 10 meetings. With every meeting this season there seems to be more and more work today after it, and as I once again look at a list of things to do on front of me and out the window at what looks like another nice day I’m missing out on, I hope you can forgive me if I perhaps I’m not just as enthused as I have been in recent years to attempt to attend 50 meetings in a single year. [see the full article]   Added: 10 Apr 2012 Category: 2012 Oval Racing 2012 - #9 – Nuttscorner Oval – 9/4/12 It may only have been Easter Monday but it seemed as though every other track had been racing for quite some time and Nuttscorner Oval would be the last to kick their season off, and perhaps the best was saved to last. If the Tullyroan facility is to be open for the start of May as it is expected then this meeting was the first of only four more meetings that Davy McCall’s promotion will hold at Nuttscorner Oval. [see the full article]   Added: 08 Apr 2012 Category: 2012 Oval Racing 2012 - #8 - Ballymena Raceway - 7/4/12 The second night of racing at Ballymena this Easter and another decent nights racing with the Stock Rods racing for their Irish Open title. [see the full article]   Added: 07 Apr 2012 Category: 2012 Oval Racing 2012 - #7 - Ballymena Raceway - 6/4/12 Having spent many years as a fan fairly out in the cold to what was going on, who had new cars and what was happening in the Sport, Good Friday used to end the anticipation of who might have built new cars, who’d a tidy new paint job and what would lie ahead for the season. All that added to getting off work or school back in the day, built up what was a fairly hyped meeting for the start of the domestic season. I can’t but feel I miss that, and in fact I probably contribute to the loss of that experience to other people. The coming of the internet has insured we all know which visiting drivers to expect, the popularity of social networking now provides us with a drip feed of who has done what with cars throughout the closed season and pictures of newly signwritten cars can often be found online long before they can be found at a track. There is also the pretty big change that 3 of the 4 promotions in Northern Ireland have already kicked off their season before Easter, and I think last season all 4 had. Even taking all that into account, this was Good Friday, this is where the season traditionally begins in many of our heads if nowhere else and anything which went before was just competitive practice. [see the full article]

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