Albar Kames trophy Rally, Sunday 14 July …. Alan Gardiner and Alan Todd won last Sunday’s Albar Kames Trophy Rally at Kames in Ayrshire by nearly a minute and half from Duncan and Janice Ferguson in their Escort MkII. Such was the dominance of the MkI crew, they had time […] Read more »

Blasting Magic Turnbull Trophy Rally, 7th July … Very few of our lot made the trip south to Albemarle for last weekend’s Blasting Magic Turnbull Trophy Rally, but for those who did – and survived – there were points to be had. This was the sixth round (of 11) of […] Read more »

Scottish Rally Class Round up … Class S2 Scott MacBeth was the top 1400 runner in his Nova despite the throttle cable snapping on the way in to service after the first two stages. Ingeniously, Scott and Calum MacLeod took the cable off the ‘Kill switch’ (don’t tell the Scroots!) […] Read more »

RSAC Scottish Rally … Good fortune is a fickle visitor to the Thorburn household these days. Forced out of the Wyedean with engine problems, then a ‘lucky’ 11th place finish on a snowy and icy Border Counties. A non-finish on the Granite due to a flattened exhaust was followed by […] Read more »

Crail Sumer Stages Rally, Saturday 15 June 2013 … Regular visitors might easily have been confused on arrival at Crail. Perhaps the result of a wrong direction by the SatNav lady as they arrived at a crisp, green, tidy (well, much better) venue bathed in summer sunshine. Usually it’s wet […] Read more »

Jim Clark Reivers Rally – Class report …. Class 1 There was only one starter and one finisher in the tiddler class with young Alex Adams and Kenny McGuire getting the Nissan Micra around in 1hr 07m 05.0s. And they weren’t last. They beat one of the Land Rovers by […] Read more »

Jim Clark Reivers Rally … Bogie beats the Bogey … Y’know something? We don’t give Quintin Milne a lot of credit at times, but actually, underneath that exuberant exterior he’s really quite intelligent. Prior to the Reivers he was saying that he has actually calculated that a WRC car is […] Read more »

Stravaigers Lodge Fort Augustus Gravel Sprint …. What a belter of a day out at Fort Augustus. It rained all the way up there from Lanarkshire to Inchnacardoch, and then it stopped. That meant the first runs were slippery and although the corners cut up a wee bit during the […] Read more »

2013 Blue Scottish Tarmack Rally Championship …. Rd03 – DCC Stages Rally, Saturday 27th April …. The Count of Monte Chris-Two …. At the conclusion of Saturday’s DCC Stages Rally at Ingliston, Chris Anderson was delighted, and surprised: “I really didn’t expect this today when I saw the entry with […] Read more »

The Classes …. Owing to circumstances outwith and beyond my control this month’s ‘Class Roundup’ is not as comprehensive as regular readers would expect. This was down to the fact that it was sometimes difficult to get access to crews due to the fact that journalists and photographers were not […] Read more »