Kenny Allen, 1937 – 2019 Sad news this week, Kenny Allan passed away yesterday morning after a long illness. He took ill three years ago just after his final motorsport outing at the Bo-Ness Hillclimb. Over that period he was in and out of hospital, but in between times at […] Read more »

… Continued from Part 2 … In this third part of the interview we moved on from future plans and strategies to a variety of more general topics … Q: It’s not just new competitors we need, we need more Scrutineers and Marshals, and organisers are getting fewer in number […] Read more »

… Continued from Part 1 … Q: It’s not only the licence holders we’re losing, but the new ones we are getting are older generation competitors interested in Historic sport, and we are not attracting enough newcomers, new blood, youngsters. Correct, you’re absolutely right, it’s in the demographics, and karting […] Read more »

… Hugh Chambers, Chief Executive, Motorsport UK … Q: What made you jump ship from World Sailing (and no, he didn’t think the joke was that funny either, but he had the grace to smile!) to join the Motor Sports Association? I had ten years working with David (Richards) at […] Read more »

… Jaguar’s exciting I-PACE has been crowned 2018 Scottish Car of the Year … The all-new electric SUV was named best in class of its Alternative Fuel Category by the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers before fighting off competition from the other category winners to take the top title. It […] Read more »

… Mach1 Observations and Opinions … Whilst standing in the sunshine at the start of the Mach1 Stages Rally in the Mull of Kintyre the other weekend, I was reminded of an incident the previous weekend where two drivers at the top of their game clashed. Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari struck […] Read more »

… 2018 Jim Clark Memorial awrd for Ian Scott Watson … Sixty-two years almost to the day after launching the career of Scotland’s greatest racing driver, Ian Scott Watson (born 1930) has been recognised by the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers. At a ceremony in Mar Hall recalling Clark’s early […] Read more »

… Michael Craig Dymock, 1952 – 2018 … Scottish rallying has lost another good pal. Michael ‘DynoMike’ Dymock passed away peacefully at home last week in Newton Mearns after a long illness. He was originally a member of ‘the Bothwell crowd’ a bunch of motor sports fans who met up […] Read more »

… A Rallying Call to Arms … There is currently much whispering amongst the trees about the imminent demise of special stage rallying as we know it. If it happens, it won’t simply be down to a matter of cost, or lack of competitors, or even the lack of knowledgeable […] Read more »

… The Inside Story on Citroen’s New R5 Challenger … FRANÇOIS WALES, Development Director, Customer Racing Vehicles … Q. What were the specifications for the C3 R5? A. The idea was to start from scratch. Obviously, the aim was for it to be reliable and fast, especially given that the […] Read more »