… Answers to the great big, lean mean, non celebrity Pictorial Quiz of 2104 …
01. Who and where, and whit the hell urr they dae-in?
Rab MacDonald, Peter Grant and Neil Moir at the Border Counties attempting to establish basic inter-planetary communications for field results between Rally HQ and Kielder Forest, based on ET’s technical tome “Phone Home” for time travellers.
02. Who is phoning home?
Mark McCulloch at the Malcolm Wilson Rally, co-driving for Ryan Weston. Apparently these yellow-bobble black hats are in limited supply available only to certain personnel so that they can be easily spotted when it snows. Apparently the first choice red hats with yellow bobbles were discarded when some wag commented that they looked like burst plooks!
03. Where was this pic taken?
Proving that you don’t need to be young and talented to fail at rallying, this proud disclaimer at the DCC Stages confuses ‘Paradise’ with Ingliston in wintry April.
04. Who is this pondering the meaning of life? And it’s not Andy Capp’s brother – his faither more like!
David ‘Digby’ Barlow was spotted in pensive pose at Kames.
05. Who, where and when? And why was Richard extending the hand of friendship?
If flattery fails then try bribery. It makes you wonder how Solway Car Club won the ‘Club of the year’ award. Only joking, but nice to see MSA officialdom getting out and about. Richard Stewart, Allan Dean Lewis and John Fenwick the Dundrennan Test day in May.
06. Who is this and whit’s he driving?
The 1971 Scottish Rally Champion and now an instructor at Knockhill, Bob Watson at the wheel of an E Type Jag.
07. Wha’ are the two auld codgers getting excited over wire wheels?
Top Scroot Rab MacDonald and Andrew Cowan.
08. Some folk are awfy paranoid about sneak thieves nicking their iPhone 6, but who is it?
Fred MacLean makes a family of badgers homeless as he seeks shelter from the rain at the Fort Augustus Rallysprint.
09. “If you stick that microphone any closer tae ma visog, ah’m gonnae nut ye.” Who says?
Euan and Paul decline an invitation to appear on celebrity Big Brother.
10. It wasn’t quite Ari and Richard on Course Car duty on the Granite, so who was it?
When Sandy Dalgarno was called away on business he entrusted Martin Craik and Stephen Brown with his pride and joy.
11. Who are the twa country gentlemen taking the air?
Bob Baillie and Ian Gemmell scanning the horizon at Crail for sightings of Dutchmen being blown across the North Sea during the mid summer gales.
12. Who is the rally driver being attacked by an amorous fan?
Steven Smith was accosted by Peter Lees, the only man known able to lick all the ice cream out of a cone without snapping off the bottom bit and sooking.
13. Who is saying “Ye owe me twa quid” and who cannae find his wallet?
No, it’s not Nigel, although the ‘profile’ is getting remarkably similar these days, it is fact young Callum Atkinson with another youngster talking after his Dad, Keith “whaur’s ma wallet” Riddick.
14. Where was this taken?
Machrihanish International Airport.
15. Cheapskate rallying I. Who is the ‘Master Baker’ being referred to here?
Young Harry Marchbank co-driving for Jordan Black.
16. Just good friends – or kissing cousins?
Jock and David.
17. Whoever said Stewarding was easy? It’s so arduous and technically difficult that a nap is essential at times, but who is sleeping on the job?
Jonathan Lord and Gordon Hood.
18. Cheapskate rallying II. Why buy two sets of stickers when you can get away with one – but who are the two Jims?
Jim Howie and Jim Haugh (on Hamish Kilnoch’s car).
19. If you haud it, I’ll dod it? But who is saying what to whom?
Jordan Black and Scott Peacock pretending that they know what they are doing.
20. Rally spectating can be so exciting and overpowering at times, or are they just bored to tears? But who are they?
Margaret and Joyce from Team Holy Socks.
21. The four just men, or just four men, or perhaps just four weans who huvnae grown up yet, but who?
Callum and Iain Duffy showing why they need more power, compared to the whippets John MacCrone and Stuart Loudon in the wee Fiesta.
22. When drivers are swanning around chatting and doing bugger all, it’s the co-drivers who get on with the work, but who is this?
Kirsty Riddick at Rally Wales multi-tasking while Johnny goes off to sign autographs and press the flesh.
23. Drop yin and yer oot, but who is giving what to whom?
Andrew Wood and Anne Parker, soon to be Mr & Mrs, winning the Scottish Championship title in 2000 and which was presented by the 1969 and 1981 champion, Donald Heggie.
24. Eyes wide shut, but he still managed to win the Scottish Rally Championship?
Jimmy Christie, the 1996 Scottish Rally Champion.
25. This is a real oldie. Many of you will struggle with the driver but who’s that sitting beside him?
Alan Arneil in the driving seat with the 1987 and 1993 Scottish Rally Champion Murray Grierson.
26. A weel kent face on the left, but who’s the school kid on the right?
20 years on and he still doesn’t look any older, Iain ‘Bert’ Haining with Robbie Head
27. She’ll kill me for this, but who is the ‘biker chick’ and who is she talking to?
If you don’t get it, you’ll kick yourself when I tell you.
Louise with Niall MacKenzie when Niall took her for a ‘backie’ round Knockhill.
28. This one’s a cracker. The one on the left is easier than the one on the right, but both were champions. Some of you might need to ask your faithers!
This one was a real piuzzler for many but that’s Brian Lyall the 1997 Scottish champion on the left and the 1970 and 1972 champion, James Rae from Perth on the right.
29. On parole or just a bad haircut? But doesn’t he look young, and note the healthy diet – as ever!
Barry Groundwater, well known for his healthy drinking and eating lifestyle.
30. Looking like someone who needs something stronger than Alka-Seltzer and Irn Bru the morning after, who could it be?
One of the ‘Northern Lights’ Dave Weston.
31. Where was Jaggy Bunnet when he should have been on Mull?
Nobody was expected to get this one, but it is actually Bilbao Airport in Spain, and not looking out of the barred windows at San Quentin.
32. And so to bed, but who is the tired wee soldier who didn’t quite make it up the stairs after a hard day spent arrowing, organising and shouting at folk in the forests?
Coltness CC Chief Bear, Big Jim.
Well, I hope ye all enjoyed that – contributions now being sought and accepted for next year’s Quiz!