Head to Head on Tour of Mull A father and son will go head to head next weekend, on one of the UK’’s longest and toughest rallies in the British national motor sports calendar, the Tunnock’s Tour of Mull Rally. Twelve times winner of the event, Neil MacKinnon will be […] Read more »

More from the Merrick Steve Bannister and Louise Sutherland looked as though were auditioning for Kwik-Fit on the Merrick. On Stage 4, ‘Ethel’ picked up a rear puncture forcing Steve to pull over and stop. With the jack strapped to the side of Louise’’ seat she was out of her […] Read more »

Exclusions in the News Jock Armstrong’’s shock exclusion from the Speyside Stages Final Results was accepted with dignity by the man himself. “”I bought the car in good faith and I bought the Japanese Group N kit in good faith’,”” said Jock, ““I am more shocked than anyone else. I […] Read more »

The Stewards Decide Following the Speyside post-event scrooterings, the Scottish Rally Championship Stewards met to discuss the matter of Jock Armstrong’’s exclusion. He had been excluded from the results after it was found that his Subaru’’s rear diff was not as per Group N Homologation. Jock attended the event himself […] Read more »

Life Under Canvas It was in 1965 that Ingliston hosted its first motor race. Anyone who remembers the original circuit will remember two things, it was tight and twisty and the Armco was awfy close to the track – and so were the trees up at Caravan Corner! Sadly, increasing […] Read more »

Kames Kalamities Bruce Edwards was using the Kames event as a shakedown for next weekend’’s two day Mercury Motorsport Stages event at Ingliston. He had fitted a ‘new’ engine to the Darrian and wanted to put some miles on it. ‘New’ is a relative term in the Edwards vocabulary. This […] Read more »

Scottish Scuttlebutt Despite what you read in other places, Jimmy Girvan didn’’t actually roll the Subaru on the Scottish. He had a small problem with the intercom after second service. It was working OK on stage 5, but failed completely 4 miles into SS6. With Mike using hand signals Jimmy […] Read more »

Greenerways Rally OK, so Mark Higgins won last Sunday’’s Greenerways Rally in Kielder (14th June), but that’’s to miss the point. The event was actually staged to provide some feedback and statistics on Pirelli’’s new ‘Eco Tyres’. With Forestry roads getting chewed up worser and worser each year, and the […] Read more »

Threat to McRae Rally? Well, maybe not. But 16 of Perth & Kinross District Council’’s Traffic Wardens are being kitted out with headcams. The video equipment, costing £25,000, will be used to record confrontations in which parking attendants are assaulted or subjected to abusive behaviour and will provide what the […] Read more »

Charterhall Chatter There must be a lot of demented Dads around the country these days. Take Ian McRae for instance. The Lanarkshire CC stalwart’s 17 year old son Kenneth McRae has a rally car and an autocross car. This weekend he will be driving his wee Peugeot 205 Rallye on […] Read more »