20 Questions with: Euan Thorburn … Euan Thorburn is one of Scotland’s top rally drivers and won his first major title last year, the English/Welsh based BTRDA Rally Championship. In doing so he has become the only Scot to win the Gold Star series award in this national championship’s 60 […] Read more »
12 Feb: Your Sport Needs YOU
Support Your Sport … The New Year has barely lurched into life and that’s not the sound of the wind blowing through the trees, it’s the whingers and moaners sighing and getting their gripes in early. I have just one request. Please stop it. Life is for living, get on […] Read more »
28 Jan: Jaggy’s weekend off
A weekend off … Last Thursday’s Paisley start for the 2014 Monte Carlo Historic Rally was a big success by all accounts with over 10,000 folk gathering to see off the gathering of ceremonial classic cars plus those who were actually competing on the rally at the start of the […] Read more »
25 Nov: Stuart Loudon on WRC
Stuart Loudon looks back on 2013 World Championship … At the conclusion of his 2013 World Rally Championship season, Stuart Loudon spoke to Iain Campbell. As Scotland’s only representative on the world rally stage, Stuart has a tough act to follow with Derek Ringer and Robert Reid both having won […] Read more »
27 August: Anti-Social Media?
This is the full-fat version of the Column which appeared in last week’s (21st Aug) Motor Sports News … I once contributed to an on-line rally forum. Only once. I had submitted what I thought was an insightful, informative clarification about a topic that was obviously causing some hiatus amongst […] Read more »
24 July: 45 yrs of Ford and Forest
This is an extended version of the Column which appeared in Motorsport News, 10 July 2013 … Andy Kelly is a lovely bloke. He’s also an astute business man, and can be pretty single minded when money is at stake. Hard nosed even. But he’s a sucker for automotive metal […] Read more »
22 May: Spot the Marshal
Spot the Marshal …. Once upon a time it was easy to spot the Marshal. He/she was the one wearing the reflective tabard/jacket. Now everyone is at it. For forest rally drivers, what once provided a welcoming embrace of conifer green interspersed by the directional flash of an orange arrow […] Read more »
17 May: Aggressive rally tyres?
Tyre manufacturers in agreement over rally tread patterns …. Three leading tyre manufacturers have voluntarily agreed not to propose certain tread patterns for forest rally use after they were deemed too ‘aggressive’ during a recent meeting of the Stage Rally Tyre Working Group at the Motor Sports Association’s offices in Colnbrook. DMACK, Dunlop […] Read more »
15 May: Press Matters ??
Press Matters … Or do they? …. The news that the BBC has been banned from Ibrox (again) set me thinking. Dangerous stuff I know, but having recently attended the DCC Ingliston Stages rally, the Pirelli Richard Burns Foundation Rally and the Fort Augustus Rally Sprint, I can’t help re-thinking […] Read more »
15 May: Jim Clark Rally
The Legend Lives on …. It’s not just the local folks of Berwickshire who revere the name and celebrate the success of Jim Clark, the Duns farmer and twice world Formula 1 Motor Racing Champion. His appeal is universal, even 45 years after his untimely passing. He wasn’t the first […] Read more »