Sporting Trials (Mudplugging)

[bagenal]

I'm involved in organising a Sporting Trial event and the thought occurred to me that maybe some on here might be interested in knowing about or becoming a competitor. It's a relatively cheap form of motorsport when compared to the likes of rallying, track racing or even karting, the biggest outlay would be the initial purchase of the car and after that it's just maintenance, entry fees and travel to events.
The entry fee is generally €50 per entrant per event and no firesuits or helmets are required. It is a discipline that anyone over the age of 10 can compete in, it isn't a speed event but a test of skill.

If anyone local wants to come along for a look the one I am involved in the organisation of is being held at 52°46'05.9" N 6°55'37.6"W (52.768306 -6.927111) on Saturday 21st January.

Here are a few links for anyone interested:

Sporting Trials

www.motorsportireland.com

Sporting Trials Ireland - Mudplugging

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Sporting Car Trials Ireland

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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sporting+trials+ireland

 

[jf 850]

I'm involved in organising a Sporting Trial event and the thought occurred to me that maybe some on here might be interested in knowing about or becoming a competitor. It's a relatively cheap form of motorsport when compared to the likes of rallying, track racing or even karting, the biggest outlay would be the initial purchase of the car and after that it's just maintenance, entry fees and travel to events.
The entry fee is generally €50 per entrant per event and no firesuits or helmets are required. It is a discipline that anyone over the age of 10 can compete in, it isn't a speed event but a test of skill.

If anyone local wants to come along for a look the one I am involved in the organisation of is being held at 52°46'05.9" N 6°55'37.6"W (52.768306 -6.927111) on Saturday 21st January.

Here are a few links for anyone interested:

Sporting Trials

www.motorsportireland.com

Sporting Trials Ireland - Mudplugging

Sporting Trials Ireland - Mudplugging, Dublin, Ireland. 818 likes · 17 talking about this. Sporting Trials is Governed by Motorsport Ireland. Mudplugging is an off road motorsport with specifically...

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Sporting Car Trials Ireland

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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sporting+trials+ireland

That looks like right craic .
What sort of dollars for that machine , roughly ?

 

[bagenal]

That looks like right craic .
What sort of dollars for that machine , roughly ?

I wouldn't know what price that particular one would be but I've seen prices from €5000 to €10,000.
It's a bit of craic alright although I've never driven one. It's quite leisurely and sociable with no panicking like other motorsports, two laps in a day each consisting of 6 sections with a lunch break between each lap.

 

[MF30]

I'm involved in organising a Sporting Trial event and the thought occurred to me that maybe some on here might be interested in knowing about or becoming a competitor. It's a relatively cheap form of motorsport when compared to the likes of rallying, track racing or even karting, the biggest outlay would be the initial purchase of the car and after that it's just maintenance, entry fees and travel to events.
The entry fee is generally €50 per entrant per event and no firesuits or helmets are required. It is a discipline that anyone over the age of 10 can compete in, it isn't a speed event but a test of skill.

If anyone local wants to come along for a look the one I am involved in the organisation of is being held at 52°46'05.9" N 6°55'37.6"W (52.768306 -6.927111) on Saturday 21st January.

Here are a few links for anyone interested:

Sporting Trials

www.motorsportireland.com

Sporting Trials Ireland - Mudplugging

Sporting Trials Ireland - Mudplugging, Dublin, Ireland. 818 likes · 17 talking about this. Sporting Trials is Governed by Motorsport Ireland. Mudplugging is an off road motorsport with specifically...

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Sporting Car Trials Ireland

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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sporting+trials+ireland

Suprisingly nimble vehicle, did a bit of work on a similar machine once. Think the make was a Sheane.

 

[bagenal]

Suprisingly nimble vehicle, did a bit of work on a similar machine once. Think the make was a Sheane.

There are Sheane's about alright.
I don't know much about the cars as I've only gotten (dragged) in to helping at the events in the last couple of years and I never seem to get the chance to chat much to anyone about the cars. I think some of them use a VW Beetle back axle and gear box with a motorbike engine and gear box linked that by chain and sprocket hence giving a very low gear ratio. Others are using a Beetle engine, I have to get to know how these get the gear ratios low.

 

[drew]

Suprisingly nimble vehicle, did a bit of work on a similar machine once. Think the make was a Sheane.

David would have built a good few alright, along with formula v and developing the entire formula sheane series. He was mad for anything racing related and a very talented engineer that kept an awful lot of random stuff stuck back together. Passed away last year and will be missed by an awful lot of people.

 

[bagenal]

David would have built a good few alright, along with formula v and developing the entire formula sheane series. He was mad for anything racing related and a very talented engineer that kept an awful lot of random stuff stuck back together. Passed away last year and will be missed by an awful lot of people.

Just found these links for anyone not familiar with the man

Irish motorsport has lost a pioneer and a pillar with the passing of Blainroe’s David Sheane

Blainroe, the county of Wicklow and the motorsport community across Ireland and England have lost a major figure with the recent passing of David Sheane.

www.independent.ie

Formula Sheane

Welcome to Formula Sheane

www.formulasheane.ie

 

[jf 850]

Just found these links for anyone not familiar with the man

Irish motorsport has lost a pioneer and a pillar with the passing of Blainroe’s David Sheane

Blainroe, the county of Wicklow and the motorsport community across Ireland and England have lost a major figure with the recent passing of David Sheane.

www.independent.ie

Formula Sheane

Welcome to Formula Sheane

www.formulasheane.ie

I think that man's mother was born less than a mile from here , that his mother died in the hot summer of 1976 , and that my father took her brother up to the funeral .
And brought back a Suffolk ram for the brother , in the boot of a Ford Escort .

A completely random and useless bit of information.

 

[drew]

Just found these links for anyone not familiar with the man

Irish motorsport has lost a pioneer and a pillar with the passing of Blainroe’s David Sheane

Blainroe, the county of Wicklow and the motorsport community across Ireland and England have lost a major figure with the recent passing of David Sheane.

www.independent.ie

Formula Sheane

Welcome to Formula Sheane

www.formulasheane.ie

There should also be a video somewhere from I think nationwide when they were up with him years ago.

Without derailing your thread to much, on a personal note David was a man I held in very high regard even though I’d no real connection to motorsport, his engineering side of things has strong correlation with why I went to do engineering in college when I went. He was a man you could ask advice from for something you were making and he’d talk through it with you and advise wether to bump up or cut down a steel size a bit. There’s a list of stuff here in the yard that David built for dad, pallet forks, buckets, 21 bale grabs etc. I remember watching him lie on his back and weld a new hitch eye under a loaded grain trailer on the side of the road and you can be certain it wasn’t falling off, it’s still on it now.

I think that man's mother was born less than a mile from here , that his mother died in the hot summer of 1976 , and that my father took her brother up to the funeral .
And brought back a Suffolk ram for the brother , in the boot of a Ford Escort .

A completely random and useless bit of information.

I think you could be right, he was I think in someway related to another great engineer that most on here would have known as humding

 

[bagenal]

There should also be a video somewhere from I think nationwide when they were up with him years ago.

Without derailing your thread to much, on a personal note David was a man I held in very high regard even though I’d no real connection to motorsport, his engineering side of things has strong correlation with why I went to do engineering in college when I went. He was a man you could ask advice from for something you were making and he’d talk through it with you and advise wether to bump up or cut down a steel size a bit. There’s a list of stuff here in the yard that David built for dad, pallet forks, buckets, 21 bale grabs etc. I remember watching him lie on his back and weld a new hitch eye under a loaded grain trailer on the side of the road and you can be certain it wasn’t falling off, it’s still on it now.

I think you could be right, he was I think in someway related to another great engineer that most on here would have known as humding

That video is on the Formula Sheane website above or here

 

[bagenal]

Rather than edit the original post, it is a very inclusive sport, age and gender wise, in that there are women, boys and girls competing. There are some competitors in their 70's or 80's. In fact the overall winner of yesterdays (7/1/2023) competition for the Freeman Cup was a lady, Karen Fildes.

Another lady Siobhan McCann is in the top ranks and is regularly winning overall or in class and is often very well placed in the Hillclimb discipline. Siobhan double drives with her father in the Mudplugging and with her partner, Enda Byrne, in Hillclimbing.

 

[bagenal]

I'm involved in organising a Sporting Trial event and the thought occurred to me that maybe some on here might be interested in knowing about or becoming a competitor. It's a relatively cheap form of motorsport when compared to the likes of rallying, track racing or even karting, the biggest outlay would be the initial purchase of the car and after that it's just maintenance, entry fees and travel to events.
The entry fee is generally €50 per entrant per event and no firesuits or helmets are required. It is a discipline that anyone over the age of 10 can compete in, it isn't a speed event but a test of skill.

If anyone local wants to come along for a look the one I am involved in the organisation of is being held at 52°46'05.9" N 6°55'37.6"W (52.768306 -6.927111) on Saturday 21st January.

Here are a few links for anyone interested:

Sporting Trials

www.motorsportireland.com

Sporting Trials Ireland - Mudplugging

Sporting Trials Ireland - Mudplugging, Dublin, Ireland. 818 likes · 17 talking about this. Sporting Trials is Governed by Motorsport Ireland. Mudplugging is an off road motorsport with specifically...

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Sporting Car Trials Ireland

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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sporting+trials+ireland

This is on today for anyone interested in coming along for a gander

 

[bagenal]

Another Sporting Trial event will be held in Rossmore, Co. Laois, this time a two day event, on the weekend of 22nd & 23rd April if anyone would like to come to see it.

On a sad note Frank Nuttall, a stalwart of Irish motorsport, has passed away.

Death Notice of Frank Purser Nuttall

Tittour, Newtownmountkennedy, Wicklow

rip.ie

 

[bagenal]

Bit of a bump for this if anyone wants to come for a look.

 

[bagenal]

This is a short video I put together of the action at a Mudplugging event held yesterday (11/11/2023). The perpetual cup awarded is in memory of Detective Garda Frank Hand.
Some might recognise a local barley baron driving in a couple of the clips.

Hand, Frank

www.garda.ie