MOTOR SPORT:Niall Breen (Dundalk) and Michael Devaney (Dublin) will race through the streets of Bucharest on Sunday in rounds five and six of the Lloyds TSB Insurance British Formula Three Championship.
Having dominated last year's British Formula BMW Championship, Breen is having his Formula Three debut season, and on a score of 18 points he is seventh in the standings, a long way behind series leader Marko Asmer (76 points). A strong second in round four at Donington is a huge boost to his confidence and his championship aspirations.
Having abandoned A1 GP, Devaney is back in Formula Three with the new British Ultimate Motorsport Team. Together they are running a Mygale car in a bid to break the winning monopoly enjoyed by Dallara since the 1990s. A recent seventh place finish is hopefully the sign of better things to come. The two Bucharest races are on a Monaco-style circuit around the streets of the Romanian house of parliament.
Niall Quinn (Dunboyne) lies third in the German Formula BMW Championship as the series heads to the Euro Speedway, Lausitz near Berlin. Emmet O'Brien (Dublin) competes in rounds five and six of the World Touring Car Championship at Valencia, Spain.
Driving a Seat Leon, O'Brien has a podium and two fifth places to his credit from the opening four champion races and is fifth in the Independents Trophy.
Tony Colley has the busiest schedule of the Irish drivers racing abroad this weekend, as he competes in five races at Donington Park. The Dublin driver races the 1934 Frazer Nash, which his late father Dudley Colley drove to many notable wins.
Tony has the legendary chain-drive "Nash" firing on all cylinders for the "GP Live" meeting which will feature over 200 grand prix cars spanning a century of motor racing, from Edwardian monsters to the latest Formula One cars.
Carrick-On-Suir Motor Club run weekend rounds of the Premier Machine tools Hillclimb Championship.
WEEKEND FIXTURES
Saturday: Co Kildare MC, 4x4 Trial, Dualla, Cashel, Co Tipperary, 11am; Carrick- On-Suir MC, Hillclimb, Millvale, Co Waterford, 12.30pm.
Sunday: Co Kildare MC, 4x4 Trial, Dualla, Cashel, Co Tipperary, 11am; Mayo & District MC, Autocross, The Valley, Swinford, Co Mayo, 11am; Kerry MC, Autosolo, Tralee Racecourse, Ballybeggan, Co Kerry; 11am; Laois Rallysport Club, Autotest, Clonminam Industrial Estate, Portlaoise, Co Laois, 11.30am; Carrick-on-Suir MC, Hillclimb, Garryduff, Co Kilkenny, 12.30pm.
