CARS Recovery Granite City Rally, Saturday 16th April Round 3 (of 8) – Scottish Rally Championship The Classes Class 2 Greg McKnight was leading the Class till he punctured the Nova which then cut out and stopped dead in the final stage allowing Alex Pirie to take the class win […] Read more »

CARS Recovery Granite City Rally, Saturday 16th April Round 3 (of 8) – Scottish Rally Championship Last Gasp Granite Unlike some other TV pundits, Robbie Head has first-hand experience of just how fierce the competition is in the 2011 Scottish Rally Championship. When asked about that at the pre-rally Forum […] Read more »

PJ Plant Hire Groundworks Charterhall Stages, Saturday 2nd April Hunting Down the Silverware Peter and Scott Hunter scored their first outright rally victory last weekend on the PJ Plant Hire Groundworks Charterhall Stages Rally, but going into the final stage they were tied in a dead heat with Dom Buckley […] Read more »

10th Brick & Steel Border Counties Rally, Saturday 19th March Round 2 (of 8) – Scottish Rally Championship The Classes Top 2WD car on the day was the MkI Ford Escort of Peter Smith in 26th place overall, but only after Steve Bannister rolled his MkII at the end of […] Read more »

10th Brick & Steel Border Counties Rally, Saturday 19th March Round 2 (of 8) – Scottish Rally Championship ‘Ain’’t No Stoppin’’ Us Now’ As I drove back up the road from the 10th anniversary Brick & Steel Border Counties, I couldn’’t get the words of the 2008 hit ‘Ain’t No […] Read more »

Arnold Clark / Thistle Hotel Snowman Rally, Saturday 19th February Round 1 (of 8) – Scottish Rally Championship The Classes Class 2 – 2WD Up to 1400cc Craig and Colin Smith won the 1400 class in the family Nova although they got a fright on the Flying Finish of the […] Read more »

Arnold Clark / Thistle Hotel Snowman Rally, Saturday 19th February Round 1 (of 8) – Scottish Rally Championship Bogie Bags the Snowman If the Arnold Clark / Thistle Hotel Snowman Rally was a foretaste of the rest of this year’’s Scottish Rally Championship then ‘haud oan tae yer bunnet’, we’’re […] Read more »

Grant Construction Knockhill Stages Rally, Sunday 9th January There’’s No Business Like Snow Business! It wasn’’t the fastest rally I’’ve ever seen, but by goad it wis fun. Like something from a Metro Goldwyn Mayer biblical epic, Reay MacKay and Robert MacDonald looked like Moses parting the White Sea with […] Read more »

Armstrong Galloway Hills Rally Strictly Come Skating Jock Armstrong and Kirsty Riddick skited to victory on last weekend’’s 2010 Armstrong Galloway Hills Rally in the frozen south west of Scotland. I use the word ‘skited’ deliberately because it implies less control and grip than the words ‘slidey’ or ‘slippery’, and […] Read more »

Kingdom Stages Rally, Saturday 6th November Reay of Winter Sunshine Reay MacKay and Gerry Straube won last Saturday’’s final round of the Hankook Scottish Tarmack Championship by less than half a minute from Stuart Baillie and Dave Cranston, but the result was in doubt till the end of the final […] Read more »