News from the side of the Spey Walter Henderson and Jim Kinloch had a nasty accident on the weekend’’s Speyside Stages Rally. There was no blood and no broken bones, but the violence of the impact caused Jim Kinloch’’s head to strike the cage above the door. It could be […] Read more »

Jimmy Girvan 1954 –- 2010 Prior to the start of the Colin McRae Stages Rally, Jimmy Girvan was virtually on tip-toes, skipping with excitement at the prospect of driving his new TEG Sport Subaru Impreza N15. Ahead of the event, he said: “”I’’ve won the Scottish Championship title twice in […] Read more »

Barbados Historic Rally Carnival There was a touch of tartan again at this year’’s tenth Barbados Rally Carnival when Jim McRae and Campbell Roy finished 2nd overall and 1st in class in a Francis Tuthill prepped Porsche 911 on the Karcher Summer Stages Rally, part of this year’s Barbados Historic […] Read more »

John Frew 1967 -– 2010 After serving as a Director of East Ayrshire Car Club, John became Chairman three years ago, quickly making himself a reputation for getting things done. In his eulogy at the service, his local minister said John would be remembered for his favourite saying: “”Aye, nae […] Read more »

Rally News – July 18, 2010 Although the Mull Stages Rally had been observed by the Management Committee of the Hankook Scottish Championship last year, this change from an island based event to a full blown stage rally on the mainland prompted the Committee to look afresh at Mull Car […] Read more »

TV Times, Sunday 13th June The first Hankook Scottish Rally Championship programme of the year is scheduled for BBC2 Scotland next Sunday 13th June at 19:20 hrs, so if you’’re not going to be in, get the recorder primed. If you want to see a trailer for the report, it’’s […] Read more »

John Shanks 1954 – 2010 Scottish motor sport lost another true friend at the weekend when John Shanks lost his long running battle with cancer, but what a fight he put up – 12 years ago he was given a year to live! He started rallying in 1977 and apart […] Read more »

Euan Thorburn crashed out on Friday night of the weekend’s Manx Telecom Rally when he and co driver Paul Beaton were caught out on a notoriously bumpy section midway through the third stage on Friday night. Thorburn lost control of his Subaru Impreza at an estimated 125 mph with catastrophic […] Read more »

Granite Chippings, but first, Malyasia Even further away than Mull is a place called Malaysia and Alister McRae was taking part in the Asia Pacific Rally of Malaysia at the weekend. Before the rally Alister said: “I did three rallies in the PROTON Satria Neo S2000 at the end of […] Read more »

John Allan 1943 – 2010 The world of Scottish motor rallying suffered another sad loss last week (27th April) when John Allan lost a long, and at times arduous, struggle with cancer. We mourn his passing not just because he had skill and talent on stage, but because he was […] Read more »