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BIG SINGLE SEATERS AND PUNTO ABARTHS HEADLINE VARIED MONDELLO PROGRAMME.

The thundering Single Seat racers of the Irish Formula Libre championship make their seasonal debut at Mondello Park at this Sunday's County Kildare Motor Club organised Championship Car Races, backed up by another strong grid for the resurgent Punto Abarth saloons.

Reigning class champions Dan Daly, over 200cc and James Lyons, up to 200cc, head the twenty two car, and growing, Formula Libre entry list, which if it continues to increase may need to be split into Super Libre and Junior Libre classes for the first time. The aim of splitting the class is to give safer and clearer track time to both the faster Super Libre cars, who will no longer have to worry about lapping slower drivers as often, and the slower Junior Libre cars who will be able to spend less time looking in their mirrors. The Libre class will race twice on Sunday either with two combined races or a single race for each class.

Following a season where continued stand alone races were in doubt the Punto Abarth Cup has seen a huge resurgence in popularity with seventeen cars entered for this weekend. Class stalwarts such as Liam Denning, Gordon Kellett, Noel Greene, Simon Quinn and the Pratt brothers are joined by a number of new names. Most notable of the new arrivals is the very welcome return of Derek McMahon Racing to Irish motorsport, with three cars running under that famous banner two of them driven by the McMahon brothers Arthur and Roger. The Abarth's will have two championship races as part of the ten race programme.

The remainder of the weekends racing is made up of some very different sportscar classes. The lightweight, motorcycle engined and open cockpit, Global Lights will race twice with their unique rolling starts marking them out from any other class currently racing in Ireland. At the other end of the sportscar scale is the Porsche Open championship, with its much heavier and more powerful cars derived from any of the German manufacturers road or racing car range. The grid for the pair of Porsche races will be mainly made up of the super quick ex Porsche Carrera Cup cars.

Finishing off the weekends entry list will be the Stryker Sports car class which is also undergoing somewhat of a revival. The Stryker championship is now just a single class championship with the demise of the 1600cc engines leaving just the more powerful 1800cc cars to battle it out for the championship.

TIMETABLE
Sunday April 6th
Time	Class	Session	Duration
09:30 09:52 10:14 10:38 11:00 11:22 11:45 12:10 12:40	Stryker Sports Cars Punto Abarth Cup Global Lights Porsche Open Junior Libre Super libre Stryker Sports Cars Punto Abarth Cup Global Lights	Qualifying Qualifying Qualifying Qualifying Qualifying Qualifying Race 1 Race 1 Race 1	15 mins 15 mins 15 mins 15 mins 15 mins 15 mins 15 mins 15 mins 15 mins
Lunch break
14:00 14:30 15:00 15:30 16:00 16:30 17:00	Porsche Open Formula Libre Stryker Sports Cars Punto Abarth Cup Global Lights Porsche Open Formula Libre	Race 1 Race 1 Race 2 Race 2 Race 2 Race 2 Race 2	15 mins 18 mins 18 mins 18 mins 18 mins 18 mins 18 mins

 

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