… Scottish Tarmack Rally Championship … Rd04, MACH 1 Stages, 2/3 July … The fourth round of the 2016 Scottish Tarmack Rally Championship in association with Blackwood Plant Hire hits the roads and runways of Machrihanish Airfield this weekend with over 100 cars heading to the Mull of Kintyre. The […] Read more »
30 Jun: The craic from Crail
… Crail Summer Stages Rally, Crail, 18th June … Allan Paterson complained that he wasn’t allowed into the Driver’s Briefing prior to Crail because the big shed was full of hay – perhaps that fact that he was smoking a fag at the time didn’t help his cause! Beefy Fraser […] Read more »
23 Jun: Edwards takes Summer Crail
… Crail Summer Stages Rally, Crail, 18th June … Rd03, Scottish Tarmack Rally Championship … Bruce Edwards and Jim Smith won this year’s Crail Summer Stages Rally, but they were harried all the way by Alan Kirkaldy and Don Whyatt. They finished just 14 seconds adrift of the winners after […] Read more »
20 Jun: RSAC Scottish Rally – Entry
… RSAC Scottish Rally, Dumfries, 24/25 June … Next weekend’s RSAC Scottish Rally will be the fourth round of this year’s ARR Craib Scottish Rally Championship, but the entry will be spiced up by visitors from the deep south and across the water, both westwards and eastwards, and even northwards! […] Read more »
16 Jun: Motorsport – Minimum Age
… Motorsport and the Minimum Age … If the MSA is serious about attracting newcomers to the sport then perhaps they should focus their attention on the glaring anomaly that exists in Auotesting and Autosolos. Last weekend I attended an Autosolo at Kames where 15 year old Lewis Winder was […] Read more »
13 Jun: 2016 Jim Clark Award
The Association of Scottish Motoring Writers has awarded this year’s Ford-sponsored Jim Clark Memorial Award to the Bo’ness Hill Climb Revival. Bill Drysdale and Kenny Baird, who collected the trophy, represent the committee that helped to re-establish the original track for competition use for the Bo’ness Hill Climb Revival, which […] Read more »
03 Jun: Forestry Fees – The Future?
… Forestry Fees … It would appear that my opinionated views on the recent Jim Clark Reivers Rally cancellation struck a chord with some old hands out there, and it also prompted a few questions from the youngsters. Primarily, what was the original Forestry Commission per car/per mile charge. How […] Read more »