RSAC Scottish Rally … Good fortune is a fickle visitor to the Thorburn household these days. Forced out of the Wyedean with engine problems, then a ‘lucky’ 11th place finish on a snowy and icy Border Counties. A non-finish on the Granite due to a flattened exhaust was followed by […] Read more »
02 July: Turnbull Trophy Rally News
Turnbull Trophy Rally entry list … Yes, I know it’s in Englandshire, but this Sunday’s (7th July) Blasting Magic Turnbull Trophy Rally is also a counter in the BLUE Scottish Tarmac Rally Championship, so a dose of our lot are going abroad this weekend to participate. A full Entry List […] Read more »
27 June: RSAC Scottish preview
RSAC Scottish Rally, Spect Info and Full Entry List …. I don’t know about you, but I hate all this bluidy nonsense about Modules. It’s a rally we’re going to, not night school classes. Anyway, here’s the full Entry List with the Classes in which each car is entered, and […] Read more »
26 June: Tyres and Landies
Pirelli and Land Rovers at the Scottish …. Ahead of this weekend’s Scottish Rally, Pirelli Star Driver, Mark Donnelly commented: “We’ve had a tricky start to the season after our retirement at the Pirelli RBF Rally and various set-up problems at the Jim Clark, but the season is far from […] Read more »
24 June: News snippets
News from Carlisle and ahead of the Scottish …. David Bogie popped down to Carlisle at the weekend for a looksee at the DMACK Stages ahead of this weekend’s ‘home event’, the RSAC Scottish Rally, and when asked why he didn’t do this as a shakedown he explained: “I don’t […] Read more »
23 June: Crail Tales
News and Gossip from Crail …. After a long and frustrating week trying to find the source of a problem on their Citroen C1, Alex Vassallo and James Ford arrived at Crail on Saturday with a Nissan Micra which had been borrowed at midnight on Friday! “It’s definitely an electrical […] Read more »
21 June: Crail Stages report
Crail Sumer Stages Rally, Saturday 15 June 2013 … Regular visitors might easily have been confused on arrival at Crail. Perhaps the result of a wrong direction by the SatNav lady as they arrived at a crisp, green, tidy (well, much better) venue bathed in summer sunshine. Usually it’s wet […] Read more »
10 June: Reivers Gossip
Tales from the Black Stuff …. Lete’s start with a nice wee story, before we get ridiculous. When David Bogie suffered his Launch Control problem on the Focus at the start of the first stage on the Reivers he had a chat with arch rival Euan Thorburn while waiting at […] Read more »
09 June: Crail Entry List
Crail Summer Stages Rally, Saturday 15 June …. Crail is easy to find. If you’re heading north, turn right off the M90 in the Kingdom of Fife or heading south, turn left off the M90 and keep going till you reach the end of the road (and the end of […] Read more »
09 June: Reivers Classes roundup
Jim Clark Reivers Rally – Class report …. Class 1 There was only one starter and one finisher in the tiddler class with young Alex Adams and Kenny McGuire getting the Nissan Micra around in 1hr 07m 05.0s. And they weren’t last. They beat one of the Land Rovers by […] Read more »