Motor Sport Column: Limerick-born Ollie O'Donovan and Andrew Jordan will battle for the British Rallycross Championship of which the final round is at Croft in North Yorkshire on Sunday.

O'Donovan beat Jordan at Mondello last Sunday, and if he can repeat that form he will become the sixth Irish driver to win the British Championship - after Dermot Carnegie, Denis Biggerstaff, Lawrence Gibson, Helmut Holfeld and Christopher Evans.

The Motorsport Ireland Team of Eddie Peterson, Eamonn Byrne, James Pringle and Simon Echlin contest the Ken Wharton International Autotest at Alcester in Warwickshire tomorrow. Since their first win in 1980, an Irish Team has won the Ken Wharton Memorial Trophy nine times, making it three in a row last year. The Irish Team has gone unbeaten in a team autotest event since October 2003. The team won the 50th anniversary event last year, beating England by 45 seconds.

Daniel Barry of Enniskerry scored his best result since he started rallying three years ago, finishing a superb second in the recent round seven of the Mitsubishi Evolution Challenge and was sixth overall on Rally Yorkshire which was also a round of the British Rally Championship.

Next event for Barry and his regular co-driver Mark Bowens (Castlemartyr) is tomorrow's Bulldog Rally in Wales.

Niall Breen, Peter Dempsey and Niall Quinn are the three finalists in the Dunlop Young Racing Driver of The Year awards. The winner will be announced at the Motorsport Ireland awards event in Dublin on December 4th.

Events and dates for the 2008 Global Irish Tarmac Rally Championship are: Galway, February 2nd/3rd; Circuit of Ireland, March 22nd/24th; Killarney Rally of The Lakes, May 3rd/4th; Jim Clark Rally, Scotland, May 24th/25th; Donegal, July 13rd/15th; Rally Isle of Man, July 17th/19th; Ulster-August 22nd/23rd; Cork 20, September 27th/28th.

WEEKEND FIXTURES: Saturday: MEC, Sporting trial, Greenane, Co Wicklow, 12pm; Co Cavan MC, Navigation Trial, starts Maudabawn, Co Cavan, 9pm.