… Kris Meeke previews Rally Wales GB … Kris Meeke is bidding to conclude the career of one of the most successful cars in FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) history, on this month’s Dayinsure Wales Rally GB (27-30 October), and he’d like to bow out in style with a first […] Read more »

… The Future of Rallying … Last night representatives from many of Scotland’s car clubs gathered in Stirling for the quarterly meeting of the Scottish Association of Car Clubs. It was a quiet affair as the President, one J C Cleland Esq, was unable to attend due to business commitments, […] Read more »

… IGNITION Lights Up Glasgow … Scotland’s first ever IGNITION Festival of Motoring has been hailed as a major success with over 25,000 motoring enthusiasts descending on Glasgow’s SECC over the weekend. The most exciting, ambitious and complex motoring event ever to be staged in Glasgow attracted passionate visitors to […] Read more »

… Motorsport and the Minimum Age … If the MSA is serious about attracting newcomers to the sport then perhaps they should focus their attention on the glaring anomaly that exists in Auotesting and Autosolos. Last weekend I attended an Autosolo at Kames where 15 year old Lewis Winder was […] Read more »

The Association of Scottish Motoring Writers has awarded this year’s Ford-sponsored Jim Clark Memorial Award to the Bo’ness Hill Climb Revival. Bill Drysdale and Kenny Baird, who collected the trophy, represent the committee that helped to re-establish the original track for competition use for the Bo’ness Hill Climb Revival, which […] Read more »

… Forestry Fees … It would appear that my opinionated views on the recent Jim Clark Reivers Rally cancellation struck a chord with some old hands out there, and it also prompted a few questions from the youngsters. Primarily, what was the original Forestry Commission per car/per mile charge. How […] Read more »

… Organisers of Jim Clark Rally issue a Statement … with a preamble by the Editor, Mr J Bunnet Esq. … There is an awful lot of conjecture, supposition and uninformed opinion racing around the ‘facetweetblogosphere’ at present, but also many expressions of sympathy and support from all quarters regarding […] Read more »

… Scottish Motor Sports, 2016-2020 Strategic Plan launch, 10 May 2016 … If you were watching telly last night I bet you were all bowled over by the generosity of SportScotland awarding Scottish Motor Sport the gargantuan sum of £360,000 over 4 years to develop the sport. Considering this same […] Read more »

… Jaggy Bunnet’s 2016 Alamanac and other prophecies … January Holyrood’s Queen Nic appoints equality commissioner for Scottish Rallying. Snowman Rally becomes Snowperson rally, Brick & Steel Border Counties is subtitled Petticoats & Lace Border Counties and the Kingdom Stages becomes the Kingdom & Queendom Stages. Newly appointed Child protection […] Read more »

… To the Hills … Scottish stage rallying has been under the spotlight this past year for all the wrong reasons. It’s still reeling from the aftermath of the three fatalities last year. What might have been a simple rally accident was made catastrophically worse by the thoughtless irresponsibility of […] Read more »