11-Feb-12: ALMC Motor Club's spring Endurance Trial which takes place on Saturday the 18th February has attracted a strong entry with many of the now regular trial competitors returning to the event along with a number of debutants. The event is based at the Luttrellstown Castle Resort Golf Club in north Co. Dublin with the nearby Luttrellstown estate playing host to a series of trials including the night trial which will round off the event on Saturday evening. The event will feature some of the more popular trial venues from last year and will also include new trial sites in Collon, Slane, Navan and Dunshaughlin with competing crews returning to Luttrellstown later that evening.

Andy Hennessy & Peter Murphy in Action on Last Years ALMC Endurance Trial Photography courtesy of Con Brady www.conbrady.com

Piers MacFheorais in his Mazda MX5 with Ian McCulloch alongside will return to the event along with Karl O'Donoghue and Padraig Farrell in their Rover 200. Other notable entries include a number of Rallycross regulars Dermot Carneige who has teamed up with Paul Bosdet in a Ford Escort MK1 and George Treacy who with George junior will take to the trials in the ex Noel Devlin left hand drive Skoda Felicia.

The Retro crew of Ted and Karen Gaffney have also entered the event in their Volkswagen Golf GTI with Ted's son Glyn joining forces with Alan Dolan to take part in their Toyota Celica.

A number of ladies will do battle on the event with circuit racer turned Auto-tester and Endurance Trial regular Patricia Denning fielding her Toyota Starlet with former stages co-driver Joe Downey taking up the navigators seat. Lyndsay Doran fresh from her role as CoC for the New Year multi venue Autotest will take to the wheel of her Toyota Starlet with guidance from Barry Treacy.

Noel Devlin CoC of the club stages rally will compete in this year’s event having played an important role in the running of last years, he will be joined by stages event secretary Deirdre Gallagher. Photographer and well known historic rally driver Frank Fennell has entered in his Mercedes Benz 220 Seb Coupe, he will be accompanied by retro regular Frank Hussey, while former Billy Coleman award winner Robert Barrable will swap his Skoda S2000 for a Toyota Starlet for the event hoping to build on his success at last years event.

The event will start at 11am with scrutiny and drivers briefing taken place prior to the start The crews will then head for the tests with a lunchtime stop scheduled for 1.30 followed by an afternoon packed with tests spread over counties Dublin, Louth and Meath with the crews returning to the tea stop location prior to their run through the night test. The first of the competing cars is due back in Luttrellstown at 8.45pm with results and prize giving scheduled for shortly after 10pm. Full regulations and details of the event are available on the ALMC Motor Club website www.almc.ie or by contacting the event secretary Clara Healy on 086 336 6186 or by email endurancecoc@almc.ie.