Stravaigers Lodge Fort Augustus Gravel Sprint, Saturday May 11 …. Highland Car Club have got an excellent entry for this weekend’s Gravel Sprint at Fort Augustus, with quantity, quality – and a dash of lunacy, as some of the Stonehaven/Aberdeen asylum residents are getting out of their padded cells for […] Read more »

News from the Pirelli – and Jim Clark preview …. “The Jim Clark Rally will be my third all-tarmac rally,” said rising Finnish rally star, Jukka Korhonen, “I’ve only done two tarmac rallies before, so I’m really looking forward to this next round of the MSA British Rally Championship.” Korhonen […] Read more »

News and Gossip …. Gordon Boyd missed out on the Granite City because he was in Italy helping Callum Guy and Peter Martin who had entered the Memorial Conrero Historic Rally in Callum’s Group 4 Escort MkII. After 120 kms of stages, Callum finished 5 seconds behind the Talbot Sunbeam […] Read more »

Aussies head to Scotland …. With 4 weeks to go, the entries are now starting to roll in for the biggest and most prestigious motor rally in Scotland, and one of the most unique motor sporting events on the British mainland. Over the weekend of May 31st to June 2nd, […] Read more »

News and Gossip from the Granite …. Ollie Mellors confirmed that he intends to do the full Scottish Rally Championship series in the ex-works Proton Satria Neo S2000 car this year: “It’s not just David Bogie and Euan Thorburn,” he said, “there’s five or six more drivers up here all […] Read more »

DCC Stages Rally, Saturday 27th April …. Round 3 (of 11) – BLUE Scottish Tarmack Rally Championship …. Going into the third round of this year’s Blue Scottish Tarmack Championship, Stuart Baillie leads on 47 points from Ian Forgan. Colin Gemmell has 38 pts and Lee Hastings shares 36 with […] Read more »

Old Stagers – Kames – Pirelli – JC/Reivers …. Old Stagers I don’t know if Richard knows this, but I got a note from his very caring and thoughtful offspring, Peter, who sent me the enclosed copy of a mounted photograph showing his faither Richard Stewart competing on the 1971 […] Read more »

Coltel Granite City Rally …. Over 115 cars and crews will gather in Aberdeen for the Coltel Granite City Rally on Saturday 20th April, and there are a few surprises amongst them. In addition to the expected front runners comprising Davie Bogie, Euan Thorburn, Quicksilver Milne, Jock Armstrong and Mike […] Read more »

Charterhall Chatter …. Rallying can be such an uplifting sport one minute and then downright disheartening the next. Like Steven Hay’s debut for instance. He had owned his Vauxhall Corsa for five years and over the past 18 months had converted it into a rally car. During this time he […] Read more »

John MacCrone and Peter Taylor ready for Wales …. Ahead of next week’s British Rally Championship opener, the Rally North Wales on the weekend of 6/7 April, John MacCrone and Peter Taylor had their first run-out in the new Culina Palletforce Racing Team Citroen DS3s. John has teamed up with […] Read more »