On Saturday the Ballyryan hill will be in use, a power hill as some call it, it has a number of bends, but the real test is the very bumpy straight. At about a mile in length expect the powerful single seaters to cover it in about 45-47 seconds.  Current record holder Sylvester Mullins did it in a blistering 43.99.

On Sunday the action moves to Ballyallaban hill, at 2.2 miles its one of the longest and most demanding hills in use in Ireland.
It’s off camber bends and bumpy straights lie silently in wait for the over eager competitor, the hard granite stone walls have claimed many a driver; these walls still bare the scars of drivers who, pushed too hard, or pushed their luck that bit too far. To be Stopped by the silent Granite guardians of the Burren.

 Either way this hill demands total concentration from start to finish, and if Ballyallaban were a lady. She would be fickle indeed, for it’s not unusual to start at the bottom in dry conditions. And by the time a driver gets to midway on the hill, rain has set in.

For over fourteen years the legendary driver Richard Young held the record for the hill, Michael B. Roche broke it in 2003, in 2004 Patrick Roche broke it again. And in 2009 Sylvester Mullins time of 96.17secs astonished competitors and spectators alike.

Will this be the record that lasts another fourteen years, only time will tell?