David Thompson Wins UAC Autotest 2022

The second round of the McMillan Specialist Cars Northern Ireland Autotest Championship was hosted by the Ulster Automobile Club at Ferguson’s Yard in Stewartstown on Saturday 26th March. It was Manorhamilton’s David Thompson in his Vauxhall Nova who was the man to beat at this event, taking the win by a minor 3.2 seconds from the reigning NI Champion Steven Ferguson. Chris Grimes had to settle for third place overall after touching a pylon early in the day resulted in a five second penalty being imposed. The grippy concrete surface and technical tests proved to be an extreme test of man and machine, forcing even the best drivers to make minor errors which cost them precious time. One such driver to suffer was Newmills man Mark King, who after four runs of Test 1 was lying second overall, but two pylons and a line fault on Test 2 cost the Nova driver a precious fifteen seconds pushing him back into fourth overall.
Footage with thanks to J Turn Media
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