Programmes are now on sale at a number of locations across Berwickshire and will also be on sale at the Rally Forum in the Tait Hall in Kelso on Thursday evening the 30th. The rally itself is based at Kelso on Friday and Saturday then moves to Duns for the […] Read more »
22 May: Spot the Marshal
Spot the Marshal …. Once upon a time it was easy to spot the Marshal. He/she was the one wearing the reflective tabard/jacket. Now everyone is at it. For forest rally drivers, what once provided a welcoming embrace of conifer green interspersed by the directional flash of an orange arrow […] Read more »
22 May: Jim Clark Rally road signs
Jim Clark Rally meets Beechgrove Garden …. Signs of a rather unique spring growth are sprouting across the verges of the Berwickshire highways and byways, but this ‘seasonal vegetation’ is man-made. As part of the plan to inform local folks and advise visitors of the forthcoming Jim Clark Rally and […] Read more »
21 May: Jim Clark Rally Forum
FREE FORUM NIGHT AT THE JIM CLARK RALLY …. For one night only, rally stars on stage … One upon a time, Rally Forums provided a regular form of pre-rally entertainment, but it was Rothmans who popularised the idea in the 70s, with star names, lots of advertising support and […] Read more »
17 May: Aggressive rally tyres?
Tyre manufacturers in agreement over rally tread patterns …. Three leading tyre manufacturers have voluntarily agreed not to propose certain tread patterns for forest rally use after they were deemed too ‘aggressive’ during a recent meeting of the Stage Rally Tyre Working Group at the Motor Sports Association’s offices in Colnbrook. DMACK, Dunlop […] Read more »
15 May: Press Matters ??
Press Matters … Or do they? …. The news that the BBC has been banned from Ibrox (again) set me thinking. Dangerous stuff I know, but having recently attended the DCC Ingliston Stages rally, the Pirelli Richard Burns Foundation Rally and the Fort Augustus Rally Sprint, I can’t help re-thinking […] Read more »
15 May: Jim Clark Rally
The Legend Lives on …. It’s not just the local folks of Berwickshire who revere the name and celebrate the success of Jim Clark, the Duns farmer and twice world Formula 1 Motor Racing Champion. His appeal is universal, even 45 years after his untimely passing. He wasn’t the first […] Read more »
14 May: Quintin’s Sprint Finish
Stravaigers Lodge Fort Augustus Gravel Sprint …. What a belter of a day out at Fort Augustus. It rained all the way up there from Lanarkshire to Inchnacardoch, and then it stopped. That meant the first runs were slippery and although the corners cut up a wee bit during the […] Read more »
13 May: The Domfather
Dom Buckley III for the Clark …. If the Borders of Scotland are steeped in motor sporting tradition, then there are few more so than the Buckley dynasty at Hassington. Renowned throughout British rallying as one of the foremost rally car preparation and rally team management companies in the business, […] Read more »
08 May: Gravel Sprint info
Stravaigers Lodge Fort Augustus Gravel Sprint, Saturday May 11 …. Highland Car Club have got an excellent entry for this weekend’s Gravel Sprint at Fort Augustus, with quantity, quality – and a dash of lunacy, as some of the Stonehaven/Aberdeen asylum residents are getting out of their padded cells for […] Read more »