{"id":18,"date":"2015-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:20:30","slug":"gentlemen-start-your-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micksgarageblog.org\/gentlemen-start-your-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"MicksGarage 2015 Title Sponser: Irish Touring Car Championship &#8211; Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.micksgarage.com\/home\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.micksgarage.com\/home\">MicksGarage.com<\/a> were announced today as title sponsors for the 2015 Irish Touring Car Championship.\u00a0The Irish based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.micksgarage.com\/c\/car-parts\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.micksgarage.com\/c\/car-parts\">online car parts<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.micksgarage.com\/c\/accessories-car-care\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.micksgarage.com\/c\/accessories-car-care\">car accessories<\/a> suppliers\u00a0will be on board for a season that is sure to excite spectators &amp; competitors alike. This partnership will bring Ireland&#8217;s\u00a0premier\u00a0tin-top racing series to new levels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<em>It\u2019s great to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.micksgarage.com\/home\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.micksgarage.com\/home\">MicksGarage.com<\/a> on board with us this year, they\u2019re a really good fit for us as a class. It\u2019s not just financial backing that they bring to the party, we\u2019ll be opened up to a new audience we\u2019ve never seen before, and that will hopefully bring more people down to watch! With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.micksgarage.com\/home\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.micksgarage.com\/home\">MicksGarage.com<\/a> joining us, and the addition of some great new cars on our grid, we should be flying higher than ever before!\u201d<\/em>\u00a0&#8212; Class Chief, Brian Sexton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to be sponsoring the Irish Touring Car Championship and are really looking forward to the year ahead. We\u2019ve had a couple of extremely productive meetings with the Championship organisers already and have a whole range of exciting ideas in the pipeline to help promote the class, broaden its appeal and bring ITCC to a new audience.\u00a0We\u2019d like to take this opportunity to wish all the teams and competitors the very best of luck for the year ahead\u201d<\/em>  &#8212; MicksGarage.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first official test day of 2015 took place last Sunday at Mondello Park where a huge turn out of competitors and spectators looked extremely promising for the year ahead. The ITCC class will be boosted by an influx of Seat Leon Supercup cars. The Seat&#8217;s are an exciting addition to the class and as many as10 of them are expected by the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can keep up to date with all the latest news from the ITCC right here on The Filter, on the ITCC website or watch the races live online on Mondello.TV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rounds 1 &amp; 2 are to be held in Mondello Park on Sunday 15th of March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.9 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MicksGarage 2015 Title Sponser: Irish Touring Car Championship - Gentlemen, Start Your Engines! 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