Full Entry List and Timetable for McDonald & Munro Speyside Stages … There’s a full day’s rallying planned for Saturday’s McDonald & Munro Speyside Stages (3rd August), the fifth round of this year’s ARR Craib Scottish Rally Championship, with a total of 9 Special Stages planned to keep the action […] Read more »
28 July: Speyside preview
Strong field in chase for Speyside honours …. The battle for supremacy in the ARR Craib MSA Scottish Rally Championship is poised to step up a gear when the eight-round series enters the second half of the season in Elgin next weekend. More than a hundred crews have entered for […] Read more »
24 July: 45 yrs of Ford and Forest
This is an extended version of the Column which appeared in Motorsport News, 10 July 2013 … Andy Kelly is a lovely bloke. He’s also an astute business man, and can be pretty single minded when money is at stake. Hard nosed even. But he’s a sucker for automotive metal […] Read more »
19 July: Albar Kames Trophy report
Albar Kames trophy Rally, Sunday 14 July …. Alan Gardiner and Alan Todd won last Sunday’s Albar Kames Trophy Rally at Kames in Ayrshire by nearly a minute and half from Duncan and Janice Ferguson in their Escort MkII. Such was the dominance of the MkI crew, they had time […] Read more »
12 July: Albar Trophy Preview
Albar Trophy Kames Rally, Sunday 14 July … Full entry list for Sunday’s Albar Kames Trophy Rally printed below. Although this is primarily a Juniors (14 to 17 years old) event there are a few bigger cars and older hands taking part, including Andrew Gallacher who has just acquired an […] Read more »
10 July: Turnbull Trophy report
Blasting Magic Turnbull Trophy Rally, 7th July … Very few of our lot made the trip south to Albemarle for last weekend’s Blasting Magic Turnbull Trophy Rally, but for those who did – and survived – there were points to be had. This was the sixth round (of 11) of […] Read more »
05 July: RSAC News & Gossip
News & Gossip from Dumfries … On their first visit to the UK, the Japanese crew of Motoharu Kaseya and Kohei Izuno finished 16th overall in the main event. They also won the ‘Spirit of the Rally’ award in recognition of their efforts in the EuroRallye Honda Civic Type R. […] Read more »
03 July: RSAC class reports
Scottish Rally Class Round up … Class S2 Scott MacBeth was the top 1400 runner in his Nova despite the throttle cable snapping on the way in to service after the first two stages. Ingeniously, Scott and Calum MacLeod took the cable off the ‘Kill switch’ (don’t tell the Scroots!) […] Read more »
02 July: RSAC Main Report
RSAC Scottish Rally … Good fortune is a fickle visitor to the Thorburn household these days. Forced out of the Wyedean with engine problems, then a ‘lucky’ 11th place finish on a snowy and icy Border Counties. A non-finish on the Granite due to a flattened exhaust was followed by […] Read more »
02 July: Turnbull Trophy Rally News
Turnbull Trophy Rally entry list … Yes, I know it’s in Englandshire, but this Sunday’s (7th July) Blasting Magic Turnbull Trophy Rally is also a counter in the BLUE Scottish Tarmac Rally Championship, so a dose of our lot are going abroad this weekend to participate. A full Entry List […] Read more »