Boosted by their podium finish on Rally Finland, Tyrone’s Kris Meeke pictured and his Killarney co-driver Paul Nagle will push for another big result on the ADAC Rallye Deutschland that begins today in Trier.

On the cusp of his maiden Irish Tarmac Championship success, Donegal’s Declan Boyle (Subaru WRC) is taking nothing for granted ahead of the Todds Leap Ulster Rally, the penultimate round of the Clonakilty Black Pudding-supported series in Enniskillen this afternoon.

The Irish crew of Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle guided their Citroen DS3 to a magnificent third place finish on Rally Finland, round eight of the World Rally Championship.

Twenty-year-old Patrick Hogan from Killiney, Co Dublin has been nominated as August’s Young Racing Driver of the Month.

Northern Ireland’s Kevin O’Kane and co-driver Mark Hanna have won the Killarney Forest Rally in their Subaru WRC.

THE MICHELIN Race of Champions motorsport spectacular in Gran Canaria, in its 16th year, will have its usual and exciting head-to-head Race of Champions as well as the fifth running of the ROC Nations Cup team competition.

Derek McGarrity (Subaru WRC) set the pace on the opening stage and overnight, he leads the Buy & Sell Circuit of Ireland by some 25.5 seconds from the Subaru of Eugene Donnelly with Austin MacHale, also in a Subaru, third, just 2.2 seconds adrift.

The British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) in association with Bord Fáilte, gets the green light in Mondello Park this weekend.

TWO of Ireland’s young rally stars, Garry Jennings and Shaun Gallagher, are in action tomorrow in the Border Counties Rally in Scotland.

CELEBRATING a century of involvement in Irish Motorsport, Dunlop is again supporting the National Rally Championship that begins in Ballina on Sunday.

WITH three races at the Avon Tyres British Formula 3 Championship at Snetterton, the pendulum has swung back in favour of Robbie Kerr, who netted two wins yesterday.

Portadown’s, Adam Carroll (Sweeney Racing) is the 2002 Avon Tyres British Formula 3 Scholarship Champion.

Having won last evening’s race Avon Tyres British Formula 3 Scholarship Class at Snetterton,

Dubliner Eoin Murray was the only Irish driver to occupy a podium finish in the Formula Renault races at Snetterton.

Irish drivers disappointed in the first of today’s double header races in the Formula Renault UK

Cork driver, Matt Griffin, racing with the Sheffield based team, Manor Motorsport, will start tomorrow's penultimate round of the British Formula Renault Championship from the third row of the grid.

Tomorrow's Clonmel Arms Hotel Tipperary Stonethrowers Rally is the first tarmac stages rally to take place since the foot-and-mouth restrictions have been lifted.

Irish driver, Keith Dempsey won the seventh round of the British Formula Renault Championship at Snetterton.