… Obituary – Frazer Madder, 1945 – 2016 … Sad to report that Frazer Madder passed away in hospital on the 16th of November. A name which will be familiar to many of you, but few of you will know the man. He was one of the founders of the […] Read more »
25 Nov: Obituary – Bob Morland
… Bob Morland, 1937 – 2016 … More sadness for Scottish rallying. Bob Morland passed away on the night of 23rd November, peacefully and with his family around him. He had been fighting cancer since June 2015, although many would be hard pushed to believe it. He was relentlessly cheery […] Read more »
19 Nov: Obituary – Peter Foubister
… Obituary – Peter Foubister, 1953-2016 … ‘Footblister & Jaggy’. Sounds like a terrible double act, doesn’t it? And it was. Way back in 1979, at the end of season Presentation Awards night for ‘The Scotsman Scottish Rally Championship’ in Edinburgh, a young Peter Foubister sat down at my table […] Read more »
10 Nov: Murmurs around Mull
… Murmurs on Mull … Ahead of the rally, there was discontent amongst the island populace when two Parkies were imported from the mainland and set about traffic clearing duty in Tobermory with gusto. Even locals who had stopped to let passengers out on the Main Street before moving on […] Read more »
10 Nov: Mull classes roundup
… Beatson’s Mull Rally – Class Roundup … Class A It was a Proton 1-2 in Class A for the 1400cc cars with James Hall taking the honours in his Proton Compact from the Satria of Chris Woodcock. Newcomer Stewart Dodds had been having a rare old tussle with Hall […] Read more »
03 Nov: Kingdom Stages Entry List
… Champ Decider … The final round of the 2016 Blackwood Plant Hire Scottish Tarmack Rally Championship takes place this Saturday at Crail when Glenrothes MSC host the Kingdom Stages. They’ve got a full entry of 100 cars and crews who will contest 6 Special Stages the first of which […] Read more »
02 Nov: VW Bows out of WRC
… Volkswagen realigns motorsport programme … New technologies and customer sport activities get top priority Commitment to the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) ends after winning twelve world championship titles in a row Employment guarantee for employees The Volkswagen brand is to realign its motorsport programme. From 2017, Volkswagen will […] Read more »
02 Nov: Obituary – Bill Henderson
… Bill Henderson, 1924 – 2016 … Another sad day for Scottish motor sport. Bill Henderson has passed away at the age of 92. Many of you won’t know the name or the man, but he was an influential figure on an impressionable young motor sport writer’s early ‘career’. In […] Read more »