Limerick Grand Prix 2010

h3000

Great event in Limerick this Sunday if any of you have an interest in motoring.

http://www.limerickgrandprix.com

limerickgrandprix.com wrote:

On Sunday August 1st 2010 the Limerick Classic and Vintage Car Club will be holding an event to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first Limerick Grand Prix race. The event will include a couple of parade laps around the original street circuit, followed by a short run. Following lunch at Adare Manor the cars will return to a display area in the city centre. The event will also include an exhibition of photographs, information and memorabilia on the races.

A selection of the Pre 1940 cars confirmed to date include :-


Alfa Romeo 8 C 2300

Fiat Ballia (Finished 4th Place in 1935 Race)

Bentley 4.5 Litre Tourer

Ford Smithfield Special (Finished 5th in 1935 Race)

T.R.S. (Finished 6th in 1938 Race)

Lagonda 3.0 Litre Tourer

BMW 328


Also, a selection of the Prestige cars confirmed to date include :-


Ferrari 308 GTB

Maserati Bora

De Tomaso Pantera

Ferrari Mondial

Ferrari 360 Modena

Aston Martin V8 Vantage

RINO87

this looks really cool!!!!

did someone not mention the other day about resurrecting the grand prix?!!

hopefully some of ye will be there to take a few snaps as I wont be in Limerick that day. (CCSL, im looking at you!!!)

Melion

Ill go down for a look and a few pictures

kilburn

This looks good to be honest apparently after Monaco, this is the only remaining street circuit.

The Snipe

I should be around, (wow its a long weekend with the ammount of stuff I'm doing.. :P) and if I am I'll take a few shots.

CCSL

9.00 Registration at No 1 Pery Square Limerick.

9.20 Pre 1940 Race Cars & Sports Car's assemble in
Barrington Street for parade laps.

9.30 - 10.30 Parade laps of the original circuit by pre 1940
sports and racing cars.

10.10 Club member's cars to assemble in Barrington
Street to join parade lap.

10.45 Return to Pery Square for Tea / Coffee.

11.45 (Sharp) Leave Pery Square for Adare Manor

1.00 - 2.00 Lunch at Adare Manor golf club

2.30 (Sharp) Leave Adare Manor & return to Pery Square.
3.00 Display at Pery Square including: -
Pre 1940 sports and racing cars.
Prestige and performance cars.
Exhibition of memorobilia, photographs & information relating to the original Grand Prix races.

Will be there on Sunday hoping to recreate some of the original footage for the organisers

kilburn

Definitely gonna be there think this is great PR for Limerick

the drifter

going to make it my business to get too some of this aswell...man great weekend in Limerick with the mma and this....its like someone rolled all my interestes into one weekend...it just needs cheap whiskey and wimmen....

Twin-go

kilburn wrote: »

This looks good to be honest apparently after Monaco, this is the only remaining street circuit.

Eh, no its not. It hasn't been used since the 1930's.
List of street circuits
Americas

• Santa Fe, Argentina (TC 2000, Formula Renault)
• Denver, United States (Champ Car)
• Detroit, United States (F1, Champ Car, IndyCar)
• Houston, United States (Champ Car, ALMS)
• Las Vegas, United States (F1, Champ Car)
• Long Beach, United States (F1, Champ Car, ALMS)
• Miami, United States (Champ Car, IMSA, ALMS)
• Phoenix, United States (F1)
• San Jose, United States (Champ Car)
• St. Petersburg street circuit, United States (Champ Car, IndyCar, ALMS)
• Toronto, Canada (Champ Car)
• Trois-Rivières, Canada (ALMS, Grand-Am)
• Vancouver, Canada (Champ Car)
• Monterrey, Mexico (Champ Car)
• Montevideo, Uruguay (Top Race, AUVo)
• Piriápolis, Uruguay (F3 Sudamericana, AUVo)
• Punta del Este, Uruguay (TC 2000, Formula Renault, AUVo)
• São Paulo, Brazil (IndyCar)
• Ribeirão Preto Street Circuit, Brazil (Brazilian Stock Car)
• Salvador Street Circuit, Brazil (Brazilian Stock Car)

Asia and Africa

• Ain-Diab, Morocco (F1)
• Marrakech, Morocco (WTCC)
• Marina Bay, Singapore (F1)
• Jakarta, Indonesia (A1GP)
• Macau Peninsula, Macau (F3, WTCC, Superbikes)
• Shanghai, People's Republic of China (DTM)
• Beijing, People's Republic of China (A1GP)
• Durban, South Africa (A1GP)
• Changwon, South Korea (F3)

Europe

• Helsinki, Finland (FIA GT, F3000, DTM)
• Pau, France (F3, WTCC)
• Alemannenring, Germany (DTM)
• Norisring, Germany (DTM, F3 Euroseries)
• Cagliari, Italy (Euro F3000)
• Monaco, Monaco (F1, F3)
• Boavista, Portugal (F1, WTCC)
• Bucharest, Romania (FIA GT, British F3)
• Bilbao, Spain (World Series by Renault)
• Valencia, Spain (F1, Spanish F3, Open GT)
• Montjuïc, Spain (F1, MotoGP)
• Pedralbes, Spain (F1)
• Lasarte, Spain (Grand Prix)
• Birmingham, United Kingdom (F3000, BTCC)

Oceania

• Adelaide, Australia (F1, ALMS, V8 Supercars)
• Canberra, Australia (V8 Supercars)
• Homebush, Australia (V8 Supercars)
• Townsville, Australia (V8 Supercars)
• Melbourne, Australia (F1, V8 Supercars)
• Surfers Paradise, Australia (Champ Car, V8 Supercars)
• Dunedin, New Zealand
• Hamilton, New Zealand (V8 Supercars, Toyota Racing Series)
• Paeroa, New Zealand
• Wanganui, New Zealand
• Wellington, New Zealand (Touring Cars, V8 Supercars)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_circuit

h3000

kilburn wrote: »

This looks good to be honest apparently after Monaco, this is the only remaining street circuit.

Twin-go wrote: »

Eh, no its not. It hasn't been used since the 1930's.
List of street circuits
Americas

• Santa Fe

The route is believed to be the only street racing circuit outside of Monte Carlo which remains unchanged 75 years on.

Mc Love

Going to try and make this even though I am working nights this weekend!

Jackobyte

Would love to go but I'm going away for the weekend. It would have been a great excuse to give my camera a spin. Ah, well.

Builderfromhell

Cars parked in Pery square now.
Unbelievable display of vintage cars.
Would strongly recommend going to see.
Havn't bothered taking photos as loads of others with better cameras doing so and hopefully some will post here.

h3000

Builderfromhell wrote: »

Cars parked in Pery square now.
Unbelievable display of vintage cars.
Would strongly recommend going to see.
Havn't bothered taking photos as loads of others with better cameras doing so and hopefully some will post here.

Just watching the parade lap from William street, really cool.

TestTransmission

Builderfromhell wrote: »

Cars parked in Pery square now.
Unbelievable display of vintage cars.
Would strongly recommend going to see.
Havn't bothered taking photos as loads of others with better cameras doing so and hopefully some will post here.

Ah,ya should of taken some anyway!

kilburn

h3000 wrote: »

The route is believed to be the only street racing circuit outside of Monte Carlo which remains unchanged 75 years on.

True and Twin go champ car isnt F1 Grand prix, which is what the day is about

jonski

Got down to O'Connell Street in time to see the second lap , then up to Perry Square to see them parked up . Great to see them there , and the owners were all standing beside them answering questions .

I was there with my dad who remembers going to see the actual races as a kid .

CCSL

Went along today to cover the event for the Vintage Club.

Had 2 cameras mounted on the cars as they went round. Am just aging the film to make it look like old newsreel will link here when its uploaded later this evening.

Heres a few pics to tide ye over.












More pics over at munsterimages.ie loads more to upload later from Adare.

DemoniK

Was fantastic
more cars that I thought were there, which made it all the better.
And a very good turnout all round.

Very well organised too.

Took a few pics - all here http://picasaweb.google.com/Rik.Dunphy/Limerick_GP_2010
Some vids also - but waiting for uploads to finish.

A few pics for your pleasure

counterlock

Sickened I missed this but thanks for the pix guys, the cars look absolutely amazing

junkyarddog

Nice pics,
I'm fairly sure I spotted that yellow Renault Tw 8574,
being recovered on the ballysimon road this afternoon,it appeared to have been involved in a RTA:(

Mc Love

I have a few myself. Turned up towards the end though.

DemoniK

Finally got the video edited and uploaded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9dYP3R0pmA
Enjoy

cruiser178

Nice video rikd,was there myself today with the kids,they loved all the old cars.I couldn't get over the noise off them took some pics aswell but my skills as a photographer are,well lets just say not good:(

DemoniK

cruiser178 wrote: »

Nice video rikd,was there myself today with the kids,they loved all the old cars.I couldn't get over the noise off them took some pics aswell but my skills as a photographer are,well lets just say not good:(

A bit of an Alfa nut myself, so having 3 oldies to look over was manna for me.
noise of them was fantastic - back in the days when there was no regulations

Am just an amateur when it comes to photos - a decent camera helps. Ended up trying to balance the use of the video camera with the still camera - and cocked it up a few times - lol
First time with vid camera - something new to get to grips with, but worth the effort

phog

forgot all about this.

Thanks for the pics and the video

CCSL

Took Ages to process this today to add the old newsreel effect!

But video finally live on youtube now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRlqA_nfHY8

Limerick Grand Prix 75th Anniversary video.
http://www.youtube.com/user/munsterimages

cruiser178

CCSL wrote: »

Took Ages to process this today to add the old newsreel effect!

But video finally live on youtube now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRlqA_nfHY8

Limerick Grand Prix 75th Anniversary video.
http://www.youtube.com/user/munsterimages

wow just wow the sound from that video sends shivers down my spine.Ive got a 1991 amazon straight 6,4.2 td with a six inch exhaust http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055602635&page=3 and it sounds like a kitten playing with a ball of string compared to these beautiful beasts,hence the user name,deffo keeping mine for good

Mc Love

Brilliant video CCSL!!

jochenstacker

Too late to join the party? here are my two videos.

DemoniK

Nice vids jochenstacker
You have the whole morning well covered

Anyone hear anymore on the yellow renault?

phill106

junkyarddog wrote: »

Nice pics,
I'm fairly sure I spotted that yellow Renault Tw 8574,
being recovered on the ballysimon road this afternoon,it appeared to have been involved in a RTA:(

I heard about that. Apparently a woman pulled out in front of the vehicle at punches cross. That will be expensive for whoever is at fault.
I would imagine bob sweeney would not have any parts for a renault tw 8574!
So all parts would have to be sourced at high cost or made specially? Ouch.

Builderfromhell

Nice video jochenstacker

kilburn

Excellent pics and videos well done lads.

dr.fuzzenstein

phill106 wrote: »

I heard about that. Apparently a woman pulled out in front of the vehicle at punches cross. That will be expensive for whoever is at fault.
I would imagine bob sweeney would not have any parts for a renault tw 8574!
So all parts would have to be sourced at high cost or made specially? Ouch.

A woman pulled out on them, jaysus.
On the lap I saw the whole procession driving towards the Crescent (not the shopping centre;)) where I was stationed.
Imagine, two police bikes, two police cars, lights, sirens and a whole line of very noisy, old cars driving down the road and not too slowly either.
Car from the sideroad waiting to pull out, sees the whole procession approaching, waits, waits, waits and THEN pulls out in the last second.
Not that whoever that was was in such a hurry, they just drove 20 meters down the road to pull into a space, probably worried that Bentley was going to take it:rolleyes: (and that thing was HUGE!)
He got a good bolloking from the Guard on one of the bikes as they where driving by, but what good does it do? My theory is that some people are so thick they'd even pull out in front of a Garda escort (and a MKII Escort) and a whole heap of 30's Grand Prix cars, what can you possibly say to them that will get through to them?:(
At least no mangled metal on that occasion.
Thanks everyone for all the videos, really brings the event back to life again!
Hope there is another one next year. (holds breath)