2022 TDC Club Championship Results

2022 TDC Club Championship Final Standings

Last edited by Piers14 on Sat Jan 14, 2023 6:00 pm; edited 2 times in total

Beginners:
Drivers who competed in their first ever autotest after 1st January 2019 and have not previously won the Overall Beginners Championship
Novices:
Graduates from the Beginner class
People with very limited competition experience as decided by the committee
Maximum of 3 years permitted as a Novice (excluding 2020)
Winning the Overall Novice Championship automatically promotes you to the Intermediate Class, the following year
Intermediates:
Graduates from the Novice class
People who have appeared in the Novice class of the TDC Club championship table in 3 or more of the last 5 years
No limit to the length of time you might compete in this class
1st & 2nd finishers in the Overall 2022 Intermediate Championship will be automatically promoted to the Expert Class in 2023
Experts:
Competitors who have appeared in the Semi-expert / Expert class of the TDC Club championship table in previous years
Competitors who are, or have been classed as Experts or Semi-Experts in the Hewison or Northern Ireland Autotest Championships
Previous winners or runners up of the Overall Intermediate Championship
Other competitors at the organisers discretion.

2022 Club Championship qualifying rounds;

23rd January TDC Mondello Multi Venue Autotest
20th March TDC Club Autotest*
10th April TDC Multi Venue Autotest
8th May TDC Production Car Trial
10th June TDC Club Autotest*
20th July TDC Production Car Trial
28th August TDC Multi Venue Autotest
1st October TDC Millard Cup Sporting Trial
9th October TDC Club Autotest*
20th November TDC Howard Wilde Autotest*
27th December TDC Christmas Safari Cup Multi Venue Autotest
Best 8 results to count out of 10 or 11 events held
Best 7 results to count out of 8 or 9 events held
Best 6 results to count out of 7 or less events held
*Autotest Championship
Best 3 results in Autotest Championship to count
It is not permissible to win the Premier Award in the Beginners’ Autotest Championship more than once.
Only Club Members can qualify for Championship Awards
Points for each event will be awarded, for each of the drivers’ categories based on the positions in the overall results, as follows:
20 Points for the Winner, 19 Points for 2nd, 18 Points for 3rd, 17 Points for 4th, etc down to 1 Point for 20th place.

Production Car Trials;
Cars with Limited Slip Diffentials will be penalised by 1.5 marks per section, on top of their actual score, to a maximum of 10 per section. Drivers of these cars can score for the Club Championship in these rounds.

Latest championship positions now posted above, following last weekend's Arklow event.

Next event is a Production Car Trial on Sunday 8th May in Kilteel. Plenty more early championship points and craic on offer.

3 weeks to borrow or source a car if you don't have one. With used car values rising, you could call it an investment.

Championship points table now updated, following the Production Car Trial on 8th May.

Next event is the Woodside Club Autotest on Friday evening, 10th June.

Results from the James Pringle Autotest have been added to the Championship Table.

Next event is the Production Car Trial on Wednesday Evening, 20th July. Full details to follow soon.

The Howard Wilde Memorial Autotest, last Sunday, brought to an end the Autotest section of our Club Championship.

Over 70 competitors took part in one or more of our qualifying autotests.

Things we very tight at the top, with several ties amongst the top runners*.

Big Congratulations go to Damien Doran, on being the Overall Winner of the Autotest Championship.

Damien was followed by Richard Meeke in second and John McAssey in third.

Congratulations, also, to all the class winners and runners up;

Overall Autotest Winner
Damien Doran

Beginners
1st Richard Turner
2nd Daniel O'Donohoe
3rd Edmund Holfeld

Novices
1st Garrett Kennedy
2nd Mark Nagle
3rd Paul Tierney

Intermediates
1st Matthew Walsh
2nd Zoe Briggs
3rd Danny O'Donohoe

Experts
1st Richard Meeke
2nd John McAssey
3rd John Nolan

It's expected that the championship prizegiving will be held at the Club Autotest in Woodside in June.

*Ties are decided by the higher result in the first event on the calendar, followed by the second event, third etc.

Huge congratulations to our clear 2022 Overall Championship Winner, for the fifth year in a row, Richard Meeke.

Well done also, to all our class overall award winners and autotest championship winners, as set out below.

Overall Championship

Overall Premier Award
Richard Meeke

Beginners Class
1st Jamie Murray
2nd Edmund Holfeld
3rd Paul Needham

Novice Class
1st Garrett Kennedy
2nd Paul Tierney
3rd Mark Nagle

Intermediate Class
1st Alex Lyons
2nd Zoe Briggs
3rd Matthew Walsh

Expert Class
1st Brian Kingston
2nd Philip O'Reilly
3rd John Nolan

Autotest Championship

Autotest Premier Award
Damien Doran

Autotest Beginners Class
1st Richard Turner
2nd Daniel O’Donohoe
3rd Edmund Holfeld

Autotest Novice Class
1st Garrett Kennedy
2nd Mark Nagle
3rd Paul Tierney

Autotest Intermediate Class
1st Matthew Walsh
2nd Zoe Briggs
3rd Danny O’Donohoe

Autotest Expert Class
1st Richard Meeke
2nd John McAssey
3rd John Nolan

Check out how you finished in the full points table, via the link in the original post. Please note the file opens with the list of award winners, but there are two additional tabs outlining everyone’s individual points for each event and final position for both the overall and the autotest championships.* A date for awarding the prizes will be decided on later.

Almost 200 people took part in one or more of our 2022 events, so thank you sincerely for your support. Again this year, the biggest number of individual competitors was in the Beginners Class, at 71. We also note the return to motorsport of some competitors who’d been taking a break, encouraged by some of our regular entrants and made easy by the fact that all our events can be double driven and entered on a one day license. You may know of someone you could persuade to relapse.

We are again very grateful to all those who make it possible to run our events – Landowners, Time Keepers, Marshalls, Results Teams, Printers, Chefs, Photographers, Test Designers, Set-up and Clean-up Crews and Officials.

Hopefully 2023 will be an equally successful and enjoyable year of motorsport. Full details to follow soon.

For now, mark Sunday 22nd January in your calendar for the opening round of our 2023 Championship, our renowned Mondello Multi-Venue Autotest. You'll need to be there to have any chance of giving Richard a run for his money next year!

We look forward to your continued support in 2023.

Stay safe,

Stephen

*A special mention for Mark Nagle, who is placed third in the Novice category in the Overall Championship. In fact he finished on the same points as second placed Paul Tierney in this section. However, second place is awarded to Paul, with the tie being decided based the highest result in the earliest event of the season.