Rallies Committee considers vehicle tracking … The MSA Rallies Committee is researching live vehicle tracking systems and suppliers for potential introduction on UK stage rallies. Live tracking systems enable the locations and movements of cars, as well as, critically, any incidents, to be alerted to the event HQ and the […] Read more »

Scottish Motor Sports Development Officer appointment … Rory Bryant has been appointed the new full-time National Development Officer for all forms of motor sport in Scotland by the relatively new body, Scottish Motor Sports. SMS was created originally to enable the sport to communicate with the Scottish Government and its […] Read more »

ROGER ALBERT CLARK RALLY 2013 … The ‘real’ RAC Rally gets underway this Friday (8th Nov.) in North Yorkshire before heading not east and west on Saturday and Sunday. There’s over 110 cars in an entry list dominated by Escorts, but very few Scots amongst them. Neil Shanks co-driving for […] Read more »

Armstrong Galloway Hills Rally, Sunday 27 October … ARR Craib Scottish Rally Championship, Round 8 (of 8) … Classes Roundup Class 2 Mark McCaffrey won Class 2 in his MkII: “A good run, I fair enjoyed it” from Angus Lawrie in the Nova who was just delighted to finish after […] Read more »

Rally Wales GB … The Nationals … With Scottish interest in this year’s Rally Wales GB confined to Stuart Loudon sitting beside Robert Barrable, Kirsty Riddick out with Jonny Greer, and Tony Jardine driving Miss Amy in the ‘International’ event, quite a few of our lot are heading down to […] Read more »

The Kingdom Stages Rally, Saturday 2 November 2013 … Crail Airfield … Old hands will ken fine where Crail is, right in the far eastern point of the Kingdom of Fife. Whether you’re heading north or south on the M90 in Fife head eastwards or due south from Dundee through […] Read more »

Armstrong Galloway Hills Rally, Sunday 27th October … ARR Craib Scottish Rally Championship – Final Round … No-one will ever know how much time and effort has been put into this year’s Armstrong Galloway Hills Rally which takes place on Sunday. That’s because no-one kept a count of the hours […] Read more »

Championship set for ‘Hills’ finale … Five-time winner and event sponsor Jock Armstrong, and five-time Scottish champion David Bogie, will be fighting for overall honours on Sunday’s 40th Armstrong Galloway Hills Rally. For the first time, the Castle Douglas-based event will count as the final round of the ARR Craib […] Read more »

ABR Roofing Kames Junior Rally, Sunday 20th October 2013 This Sunday sees the penultimate round of the Junior 1000 Rally Championship at Kames and it will be particularly interesting because two of the Juniors have actually now graduated (they’ll be shaving next!) and will be competing in bigger cars. We […] Read more »

Kames Rally, 29 September, 2013 … News and Gossip … Harry Marchbank’s poor result on this event, because of his Maximum on the first stage when he broke a driveshaft, leaves him needing to beat Ben Crealey on the final two rounds to claim third overall in the Junior 1000 […] Read more »