Author: callum

The Mourne Motorcycle Club will host their fifth annual charity event at the Millbrook Lodge Hotel, Ballynahinch, on the evening of Wednesday, June 22 2011.

This is the fifth year in a row that the Mourne club will run an annual charity event and we hope to follow on from the success of the previous four years, which have seen the club raise £30,000 for seven different charities.

This year the Mourne club has chosen to collect for local branches of the British Red Cross and St Johns Ambulance. The members of these two worthy organisations are always on hand to help motocross riders and this has already been seen on numerous occasions in the 2011 racing season. The members of St Johns Ambulance and the Red Cross are definitely among the most important people attending motocross races and while nobody likes to see anyone getting hurt/injured at a race, the ambulance crews in attendance always provide fantastic treatment when they are called on.

This year the Mourne club has chosen to use its annual charity event to show our appreciation and admiration for the Red Cross and St Johns Ambulance, who help participants and supporters at all sorts of sporting events throughout the country. The Mourne club will be happy to give everyone the chance to show their appreciation on the night for two organisations that rarely get the credit they deserve.

On the night there will be motocross bikes, quads and sidecar races, along with clowns, face painting, balloon shaping and a bouncy castle to entertain every member of the family.

Once again the Ballynahinch Lions will continue to support the Mourne club’s annual charity event, by helping us to promote and collect at the event.

The Mourne club will also be helped by The Millbrook Lodge Hotel; Keith Cullen from Country Fried Chicken in Ballynahinch, who will be sponsoring the events trophies again this year; Michael Taylor from MST Transport, who will be bringing lorries along for the event; Arthur McMullan and Peak Performance Car Club, who will be showing off their cars on the night and Ballynahinch United Football Club who will be providing car parking on their grounds.

Admission to the event will cost £3, while children go free.

 

 

Photo caption: Francie Casement (Ballynahinch Lions), Les Boals (Quad Racing Ireland), Ken Patterson (British Red Cross), Mary Kinkaid (who has been helping the Mourne club with first aid for over 40 years), John Rilley (St Johns Ambulance), John Bassett (Mourne Motorcycle Club Chairman) and Gerry McMullan (Ballynahinch Lions)

The Mourne Motorcycle Club will host their first motocross race of the year on Monday, May 2^nd, when they hold round three of the Ulster Open Motocross Championship at clubman Norman Green’s Seaforde Motocross Park.

The May Day race is an annual event for the Mourne club and this year it will also be the first motocross race of the year at Seaforde Motocross Park.

The press launch was held in the Stick Restaurant in Brennan’s, Seaforde on the evening of Tuesday 19^th April 2011 and Roy Neill, the voice of Irish motocross, was on-hand to offer a few words.

Along with Mourne clubmen and sponsors, members of the Ballynahinch Lions Club attended, as they will be collecting for charity on the day. And everyone at the launch was looked after by Louise Kearney from The Stick Restaurant at Brennan’s.

This year the Mourne club is running the event with sponsorship from Noel Cochrane’s Car Sales and Spares, Frenchies Mace in Clough, Brennans Ice Cream and McKibbins Car Sales, Brent Dorman Agricultural Engineer and John Deere Specialist, B.L.R.C. Landrover Specialists in Saintfield, Saintfield Livestock Market, Kane Trailers and with help from Gerard O’Neill of Bore ‘a’ Hole.

With this additional support from all the above sponsors the club is able to pay the following substantially greater amount of prize money to riders who may not have previously received as much, or any at all:

Expert Class:

1^st – £120  /  2^nd – £100  /  3^rd – £75  /  4^th – £60  /  5^th – £45  /  6^th – £30

Semi  Expert Class:

1^st – £75  /  2^nd – £60  /  3^rd – £45  /  4^th – £35  /  5^th – £30  /  6^th – £25  /  7^th – £20  /  8^th – £15

Clubman Classes (MX1 & MX2):

1^st – £60  /  2^nd – £45  /  3^rd – £35  /  4^th – £30  /  5^th – £25  /  6^th – £20  /  7^th – £15  /  8^th – £10

There will also be one random non prize winner from the above in the last block on Clubman classes, both MX1 and MX2 who will receive a £50 spot prize from further down the finishers list.

On the day the bikes will be out on the track from 9.30am and all spectators are welcome. Entry to the event will cost £5 for adults, while children go free and car parking is also free.