03 May: Speyside Classes 1-4

… Final Class Results … Class position / Start No. / Dvr / CoDvr / Home Towns / Car / Time Notes: Class 1 – 2wd Cars Up To 1450cc 1, 69, Scott Peacock/Robin Neil (MG ZR) 48:45 – Comfortable class win for Scott whose only concern was the heat: […] Read more »

27 Apr: Speyside fastest stage times

… McDonald & Munro Speyside Stages … Fastest Stage Times … SS1, McDonald &Munro Cooper Park 1 (0.60 miles – Tarmac) 1, David Bogie/John Rowan (Skoda Fabia R5) 0:44s 2= Jock Armstrong/Cameron Fair (Subaru Impreza) 0:45s 2= Rhys Yates/Alex Lee (Skoda Fabia R5) 0:45s 2= Mark McCulloch/Michael Hendry (Ford Fiesta […] Read more »

26 Apr: Bogie’s 9th Speyside win

McDonald & Munro Speyside Stages Rally, Saturday 21st April … Round 3 – 2018 ARR CRaib Scottish Rally Championship … Just like winning, perfection is a target. Especially in rallying. But David Bogie and John Rowan came close on last weekend’s McDonald & Munro Speyside Stages Rally. It was an […] Read more »

24 Apr: No Marshals = No Rallies!

… A Rallying Call to Arms … There is currently much whispering amongst the trees about the imminent demise of special stage rallying as we know it. If it happens, it won’t simply be down to a matter of cost, or lack of competitors, or even the lack of knowledgeable […] Read more »

17 Apr: Speyside Preview/Entry List

… McDonald & Munro Speyside Stages Rally, Sat 21st April … After an enforced lay-off, forest rallying resumes this weekend in the far north on Saturday’s McDonald & Munro Speyside Stages Rally. What should have been Round 3 of the ARR Craib Scottish Championship now becomes Round 2 with drivers […] Read more »

03 Apr: Ingliston Bletherings

… Blethering around Ingliston … Six years ago, a bunch of automotive engineering students from Harper Adams University based in Newport in Shropshire appeared at the DCC Stages Rally at Ingliston and volunteered to Marshal. Since then, they have been regular visitors although some of the faces in the present […] Read more »

02 Apr: Haining’s First Win

… DCC Junior Stages, Sun 25th March, Ingliston … There was a dead-heat in Sunday’s DCC Junior Stages Rally when Lewis Haining and George Myatt finished the day’s 8 Stages on an identical total with Johnnie MacKay and Gordon Reid. First time out in his newly acquired Skoda Citigo, Haining […] Read more »

01 Apr: Morrison’s Maiden Win

… DCC Stages Rally, Sat 24th March, Rd2 of Cobble Shop Scottish Tarmack Championship … Gordon Morrison scored his first ‘proper’ outright rally victory at the weekend when he and Cameron Fair won a close fought DCC Stages Rally at Ingliston. With two stages to go they were dead-heating with […] Read more »

30 Mar: Inside Citroen’s new C3 R5

… The Inside Story on Citroen’s New R5 Challenger … FRANÇOIS WALES, Development Director, Customer Racing Vehicles … Q. What were the specifications for the C3 R5? A. The idea was to start from scratch. Obviously, the aim was for it to be reliable and fast, especially given that the […] Read more »

21 Mar: SAMSC AGM report

… SACC / SAMSC AGM, Bridge of Allan, 20th March … The Scottish Association of Car Clubs has been accused by many of being a ‘talking shop’, and rightly so. It is indeed a talking shop and all the better for it. If we don’t talk to each other then […] Read more »