… ‘Closed Roads’ take a step closer … The Prime Minister officially opened Williams’ new F1 engineering facility in Oxfordshire last week and hailed F1 as an “an amazing success story” for the UK, with eight of the 11 teams based here and tens of thousands of people working in […] Read more »
10 Jul: Machrihanish musings
… News & Gossip from Kintyre … A late entry for last weekend’s Mach1 Stages Rally came from Germany, but no Germans turned up. Instead, Ruary MacLeod appeared with Cammy Fair in Calum’s Honda Civic R3. Apparently the car has suffered niggly problems on its last three outings in Germany […] Read more »
09 Jul: Albar Kames Trophy entry list
… Albar Kames Trophy Rally & Junior Rally, Sunday 13 July … If you missed Machrihanish and have read all the reports about how good it was, and you’re suffering rally withdrawal symptoms, then how about taking a trip to Kames at Muirkirk this Sunday for the Albar Kames Trophy […] Read more »
09 Jul: Mach1 Stages Rally report
… Mach1 Stages Rally, 5/6 July 2014 … Tommy Morris and Colin Harkness won the inaugural Mach1 Stages Rally at the former Machrihanish airbase near Campbeltown at the weekend. This was the fourth round of the BLUE Scottish Tarmack Championship, but the real star of the show was the new […] Read more »
04 Jul: RSAC Scottish blethers
… News and Gossip, 4 July 2014 … As part of the Government’s ‘Safety Review’ following the recent Jim Clark Rally, the leader of the Review Group was in Dumfries at the weekend taking a keen interest in proceedings. She met with many officials before and during the event taking […] Read more »
04 Jul: Scottish Rally Class roundup
… RSAC SCottish Rally, 28 June … … The Classes … Class B2 Scott MacBeth was lucky to finish the Scottish Rally let alone win the 1400 class in his Nova. He drowned out in the watersplash at Heathhall but the engine suffered no lasting damage. Then when a shock […] Read more »
03 Jul: RSAC Scottish Rally report
… Stoormageddon … … RSAc Scottish Rally, Sat 28 June … The 2014 RSAC Scottish Rally. It can be summed up in 3 words. Sun, stoor and stanes. OK, that’s four but ye ken whit I mean. But there was more to it than that. There was one over-riding question […] Read more »
01 Jul: Mach1 preview/entry list
… Mach1 Stages Rally … … Sat/Sun, 5/6 July … Crikey what an entry. This weekend’s brand new Mach I Stages at Machrihanish Airfield will take to the Mull of Kintyre for Round 4 of the BLUE Scottish Tarmack Rally Championship with a damn near full-house entry of 100 cars […] Read more »
25 Jun: Scottish Rally – spectators
… RSAC Scottish Rally, Fri/Sat 27/28 June … Spectator Info: The best thing to do is look at the RSAC Scottish Rally website (see link below) where the organisers have kindly put up marked Google maps for ease of use. I was thoroughly impressed! http://www.scottishrally.co.uk/pages/specs/times.html And then scroll down the […] Read more »
25 Jun: Scottish Rally entry list
… Full Entry List for all competitors in this weekend’s RSAC Scoittish Rally … National Entry List: 1, Euan Thorburn/Paul Beaton (Duns/Inverness) Ford Focus WRC ’01, 2000, B12 2, David Bogie/Kevin Rae (Dumfries/Jedburgh) Ford, Fiesta R5+, 1600, B12 3, Jock Armstrong/Paula Swinscoe (Castle Douglas/Withnell) Subaru Impreza, 1998, B12 4, Quintin […] Read more »