News & Gossip Roundup Ahead of the Tunnocks Mull Rally I had a chat with some of the boys. Calum Duffy was telling me his new John Reid engine had 317 bhp and was geared for 147 mph, but he was telling me also that the car really was a […] Read more »
Blethers: Misery in Munich
Flights of Hateful Fancy …. I hate airports, and I’m beginning to hate flying too. It’s not so much the airport building or the flight, it’s all the bleedin’ time spent hanging around these modern cathedrals of cantankerousness waiting, and waiting, and then waiting some more. I often spend more […] Read more »
Feature: Rallying in Germanland
Achtung! Read ze following - qvestions vill be asked aftervards …. Jaggy’s penpal (yes, he truly does have friends) dropped him a line about his latest adventures in Germanland rallying. Calum MacLeod is stationed over there these days and keeps up to date with son Ruary’s rallying adventures in Scotland […] Read more »
Feature: Chatsworth Rally Show
Chatsworth Rally Day …. Sometimes referred to as the ‘Goodwood of the North’ I went to the Chatsworth Rally Show for the first time the other weekend, and there were quite a few Scots around and about, plus some other weel-kent faces, supping ice cream in the sun and slurping […] Read more »
Report: Rally of Scotland
Rally of Scotland, 15/16/17 October 2010 Winter’s Little Reay of Sunshine Reay MacKay and Robert MacDonald won the National B part of the RoS on Sunday after just three stages in the Trossachs. It may not sound much but there were two 9.9 milers and one 18 miler. I suppose […] Read more »
Report: Comet Sighted Over Mull
The Tunnocks Mull Rally, 8/9/10 October 2010 Comet Sighted Over Mull This was an unbelievable event. One for the history jotters and record books. The 41st Tunnocks Mull Rally will enter folklore for years to come. No, I’m not talking about the titanic struggle between eventual winners Calum and Iain […] Read more »
Report: Dark Day in Scotland
Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally, Saturday 25th September Round 8 (of 8) Hankook Scottish Rally Championship A Dark Day in Scotland It’s hard to believe now, but a day which dawned so bright and promising turned out to be one of the darkest in Scottish rallying. On the second […] Read more »
Report: Crash, Bang, Wallop
Gleaner Oil & Gas Speyside Stages Rally, Saturday 7th August Round 6 (of 8) Hankook Scottish Rally Championship Crash, Bang, Wallop, What a Rally! David Bogie and Kevin Rae made it look easy on last Saturday’s Gleaner Oil & Gas Speyside Stages Rally at Elgin. Five fastest times in […] Read more »
Report: Magic Mauger
Wilkinson Maintenance Tyneside Stages Rally, Sunday,1st August Rd 4 (of 8) – Hankook Scottish Tarmack Rally Championship Magic Mauger Simon Mauger and Ashley Trimble scored a magical win on Sunday’s Wilkinson Maintenance Tyneside Stages Rally over the notorious Otterburn Ranges. Magical, because they did it in a MkII and they […] Read more »
Report: Gardiner’s First Win
July Rally Time Trial, Sunday, 18 July Gardiner’s First Win in the MkI Alan Gardiner and Alan Todd won last Sunday’s Time Trial at Kames and set fastest times on three of the day’s four stages. It was dry for most of the afternoon but a series of sudden heavy […] Read more »