TIMING ON RALLLIES As a co-driver, timing is probably your most important job on a rally. From when you leave the first control until you arrive back at the final control, you must be keeping an eye on the time. 1. TIME CARD The timecard must be carefully looked after, […] Read more »
18 Feb: Snowman thoughts
It all started so well. Euan Thorburn and Jock Armstrong were setting the pace on the first round of the Scottish Rally Championship last weekend. Mike Faulkner was having teething troubles with his new car, Paul Benn had smacked the nose of his Focus and David Bogie was already out, […] Read more »
Feature: First Timers!
On this weekend’s Arnold Clark/ Thistle Hotel Snowman Rally there will be a number of first-timer drivers and co-drivers, and since Drivers have the easy job, I thought a wee article to help first time Co-drivers would be a help. Not being intelligent or competent enough to write it myself, […] Read more »
Feature: More Power, or More Grip?
Making your Rally Budget go further …. Here’s a question for you, and think carefully before you answer. If you have a limited budget to spend on your rally car, which would you rather have? More power, or more grip? Since this is mainly a manly sport, the natural gut […] Read more »
25 Jan: Scroot’s Corner
The first round of the ARR Craib Scottish Championship isn’t far away now and no doubt, garages and lockups the length and breadth of the country will be hives of activity as the last nuts are tightened and fluid levels topped up. But there is one wee hurdle betwixt Rally […] Read more »
Feature: Colin McRae, 1968-2007
Full Throttle – Nothing Less …. The Early Years …. a very personal tribute …. first published in ‘Motorsport News’, September 2007 …. Over recent weeks we’ve heard from the great and the good, now it’s my turn. I’m no jet-setting foreign correspondent flitting from one World Rally to the […] Read more »
Christmas Road Test ….
I’ve been ‘Mogged’ …. by a mechanical Shrek …. It was big and it was green. It growled like a bear in need of a hot toddy and crawled through the woods on all fours. The low winter sunlight glinted on something shiny. Was it teeth or tusks, horns or […] Read more »
Feature: Mull Reflections
Damp dykes and cold bums …. Well, there I was sitting on the cemetery wall above Dervaig village. Dangling my legs and sooking a soor ploom, just waiting for the lights to appear over the skyline. It’s at times like this, with dead punters behind, odd noises oozing from the […] Read more »
Report: Hard Day’s Bite
Gleaner Oil & Gas Speyside Rally, Saturday 4th August Round 6 (of 8) Scottish Rally Championship Anyone who switched off the telly and headed for the forests on last weekend’s Gleaner Oil & Gas Speyside Stages was in for a treat, like a starving midge heading for a bus […] Read more »
Behind the Colin McRae Rally
The World According to Jaggy …. The Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally on the 1st of October is a new addition to the Dunlop/WONAGO MSA British Historic Rally Championship, so what lies ahead for those who have never dared venture north of Hadrian’s Wall? JB was asked to write something […] Read more »