Scottish Rally Championship
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The Scottish Rally Championship is a rallying
series run throughout Scotland
over the course of a year, that comprises seven gravel rallies and one tarmac event . Points are awarded to the top placed drivers and the driver scoring the highest number of points over the season is declared Champion. The championship has always been a breeding ground for many World Rally Championship
drivers, including Colin
& Alister McRae
, Robbie Head and most recently Barry Clark
.
Notable previous champions have included Mitsubishi Ralliart
founder Andrew Cowan
, who won the championship in 1976 in a Colt Lancer, and former World Rally Champion, Colin McRae who performed a giant killing act when he took the series crown in 1988 in his humble Vauxhall Nova.
, Ari Vatanen
(partnered by his 1981 WRC winning co-driver David Richards
), Björn Waldegård
, Malcolm Wilson
, Russell Brookes
, Jimmy McRae
, Andrew Cowan
and Louise Aitken-Walker
, many competing in their original cars. A handful of current WRC drivers also took part including Matthew Wilson
and Travis Pastrana
. The event was deemed a great success, attracting record spectator numbers to the Perthshire forests. Outright winner was Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team
driver Matthew Wilson in a Ford Focus WRC, with Colin's brother Alister winning the "legends" portion of the rally.
Rallying
Rallying, also known as rally racing, is a form of auto racing that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars...
series run throughout Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
over the course of a year, that comprises seven gravel rallies and one tarmac event . Points are awarded to the top placed drivers and the driver scoring the highest number of points over the season is declared Champion. The championship has always been a breeding ground for many World Rally Championship
World Rally Championship
The World Rally Championship is a rallying series organised by the FIA, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer. The driver's world championship and manufacturer's world championship are separate championships, but based on the same point system. The series currently consists of 13...
drivers, including Colin
Colin McRae
Colin Steele McRae, MBE was a Scottish rally driver born in Lanark.The son of five-time British Rally Champion Jimmy McRae and brother of rally driver Alister McRae, Colin McRae was the 1991 and 1992 British Rally Champion and, in 1995, became the first British person and the youngest to win the...
& Alister McRae
Alister McRae
Alister McRae is a Scottish rally driver, who competed in the World Rally Championship. He is the son of the five-time British Rally Champion Jimmy McRae and the younger brother of the late 1995 World Rally Champion, Colin McRae...
, Robbie Head and most recently Barry Clark
Barry Clark (rally driver)
Barry Clark is a British rally driver born in Aberdeen in Scotland. After becoming the Fiesta Sporting Trophy International champion in 2007, Clark has been awarded a drive in the World Rally Championship for one event, and secured funding for two more events...
.
Notable previous champions have included Mitsubishi Ralliart
Ralliart
Ralliart was the high-performance and motorsports division of Mitsubishi Motors. It was responsible for development and preparation of the company's rally racing and off-road racing vehicles, as well as the development of high-performance models and parts available to the public...
founder Andrew Cowan
Andrew Cowan
Andrew Cowan is a Scottish former rally driver, and the founder and senior director of Mitsubishi Ralliart until his retirement on 30 November 2005.-Early years:...
, who won the championship in 1976 in a Colt Lancer, and former World Rally Champion, Colin McRae who performed a giant killing act when he took the series crown in 1988 in his humble Vauxhall Nova.
Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally 2008
The 2008 season finale, the Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally saw an enhanced entry list of 'rally legends' in honour of Colin who died in 2007. The impressive entry list included ex-World Championship drivers Hannu MikkolaHannu Mikkola
Hannu Olavi Mikkola is a retired world champion rally driver. He was a seven time winner of the 1000 Lakes Rally in Finland and won the RAC Rally in Great Britain four times.- Career :...
, Ari Vatanen
Ari Vatanen
Ari Pieti Uolevi Vatanen is a Finnish rally driver turned politician and Member of the European Parliament 1999–2009. Vatanen won the World Rally Championship drivers' title in 1981 and the Paris Dakar Rally four times....
(partnered by his 1981 WRC winning co-driver David Richards
David Richards (racing)
David Pender Richards CBE is the chairman of Prodrive and Aston Martin, and a former team principal of the BAR and Benetton Formula One motor racing teams. He lives with his wife, Karen, in Warwickshire and has three children....
), Björn Waldegård
Björn Waldegård
Björn Waldegård from Rimbo is a former Swedish rally driver, and the winner of the inaugural World Rally Championship for drivers in 1979...
, Malcolm Wilson
Malcolm Wilson (rally)
Malcolm Irving Wilson, OBE is a British former rally driver. He is the father of current World Rally Championship driver Matthew Wilson....
, Russell Brookes
Russell Brookes
Russell Brookes is an English former rally driver. He won the British Rally Championship with a Ford Escort RS1800 in 1977 and with an Opel Manta 400 in 1985. In 1978, he won the Rally New Zealand, a round of the FIA Cup for Drivers, the predecessor to the World Championship for Drivers...
, Jimmy McRae
Jimmy McRae
Jimmy McRae is a Scottish rally driver. He is the father of World Rally Championship drivers Alister McRae, and the late 1995 World Rally Champion Colin McRae...
, Andrew Cowan
Andrew Cowan
Andrew Cowan is a Scottish former rally driver, and the founder and senior director of Mitsubishi Ralliart until his retirement on 30 November 2005.-Early years:...
and Louise Aitken-Walker
Louise Aitken-Walker
Louise Aitken-Walker MBE is a British rally and saloon car racing driver. Aitken-Walker entered competition in 1979 and finished 19th in her first Rally GB two years later...
, many competing in their original cars. A handful of current WRC drivers also took part including Matthew Wilson
Matthew Wilson
Matthew Wilson is an English rally driver from Cockermouth in Cumbria. He is the son of M-Sport boss and former WRC driver Malcolm Wilson. Wilson currently competes in the World Rally Championship for the Stobart M-Sport Ford team...
and Travis Pastrana
Travis Pastrana
Travis Alan Pastrana is an American motorsports competitor and stunt performer who has won championships and X Games gold medals in several events, including supercross, motocross, freestyle motocross, and rally racing. He runs a show called Nitro Circus with some of his friends...
. The event was deemed a great success, attracting record spectator numbers to the Perthshire forests. Outright winner was Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team
Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team
The M-Sport Stobart Ford World Rally Team, formerly Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team or also Stobart Motorsport World Rally Team is a rally team competing in the World Rally Championship sponsored by the Stobart Group...
driver Matthew Wilson in a Ford Focus WRC, with Colin's brother Alister winning the "legends" portion of the rally.
Jimmy Girvan Death
In 2010, Jimmy Girvan was killed. "The Colin McRae Rally in Perthshire was cancelled after the vehicle hit boulders and careered off the road, crashing into trees and killing 56-year-old Jimmy Girvan, a former Scottish rally champion from the Inverness area, yesterday. The accident happened during the forest stages of the rally on a section of the course known as Griffin, to the east of Aberfeldy, just before 1pm on Saturday.Champions
| Season | Driver | Co-Driver | Car |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 2011 Scottish Rally Championship season The Scottish Rally Championship is a rallying series run throughout Scotland over the course of a year, that comprises seven gravel rallies and one tarmac event... |
David Bogie David Bogie David Bogie is a Scottish rally driver from Dumfries. He currently holds the titles of Scottish Rally Champion and British Rally Champion. He is the first person to hold both titles simultaneously.-Career:... |
Kevin Rae | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, colloquially known as the Lancer Evo or Evo, is a high-performance sedan manufactured by Mitsubishi Motors. There have been ten official versions to date, and the designation of each model is most commonly a roman numeral... , Metro 6R4 |
| 2010 2010 Scottish Rally Championship season The Scottish Rally Championship is a rallying series run throughout Scotland over the course of a year, that comprises seven gravel rallies and one tarmac event... |
David Bogie | Kevin Rae | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9, Ford Focus WRC Ford Focus WRC The Ford Focus RS WRC is a car built for the Ford World Rally Team by Ford and M-Sport and based on the Ford Focus Climate 2-litre production hatchback, developed to compete in the World Rally Championship. The RS stands for Rallye Sport and the WRC for World Rally Car, the car's FIA specification... |
| 2009 | David Bogie | Kevin Rae | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9, Toyota Corolla WRC |
| 2008 | Jimmy Girvan | Kirsty Riddick | Subaru Impreza |
| 2007 | Gary Adam | Gordon Adam | Subaru Impreza |
| 2006 | Dave Weston | Steven Clark | Ford Focus WRC Ford Focus WRC The Ford Focus RS WRC is a car built for the Ford World Rally Team by Ford and M-Sport and based on the Ford Focus Climate 2-litre production hatchback, developed to compete in the World Rally Championship. The RS stands for Rallye Sport and the WRC for World Rally Car, the car's FIA specification... |
| 2005 | Barry Johnson | Stewart Merry | Subaru Impreza WRC |
| 2004 | Raymond Munro | Stewart Merry | Subaru Impreza WRC |
| 2003 | Raymond Munro | Neil Ewing | Subaru Impreza WRC |
| 2002 | Barry Johnson | Gordon Adam | Subaru Impreza |
| 2001 | cancelled due to outbreak of Foot-and-mouth disease Foot-and-mouth disease Foot-and-mouth disease or hoof-and-mouth disease is an infectious and sometimes fatal viral disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals, including domestic and wild bovids... |
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| 2000 | Andrew Wood | Ann Parker | Audi 90 |
| 1999 | Jon Burn | Stan Quirk | MG Metro 6R4 |
| 1998 | Jimmy Paterson | Fred Bell | Subaru Impreza |
| 1997 | Brian Lyall | John Bennie | Subaru Impreza |
| 1996 | Jimmy Christie | Murdo Campbell | MG Metro 6R4 |
| 1995 | David Gillanders | Martin Forrest | Ford Escort Cosworth |
| 1994 | Michael Horne | Monty Pearson | Ford Sierra Cosworth Ford Sierra The Ford Sierra is a large family car that was built by Ford Europe from 1982 until 1993. It was designed by Uwe Bahnsen, Robert Lutz and Patrick le Quément. The code used during development was "Project Toni".... |
| 1993 | Murray Grierson Murray Grierson Murray Grierson, is a Scottish rally driver from Dalbeattie.Born in Balmaclellan in 1948, Murray began rallying a Mini in the early 1970s. He was a stalwart of the Scottish Rally Championship, winning it outright in 1987, using an Opel Kadett 400 and again in 1993, using an MG Metro 6R4... |
Stewart Merry | MG Metro 6R4 |
| 1992 | Raymond Munro | Neil Ewing | Ford Sierra Cosworth |
| 1991 | Donald Milne | Bob Wilson | Nissan Engined Metro 6R4 |
| 1990 | Jimmy Girvan | Campbell Roy | Toyota Celica GT4 |
| 1989 | Andrew Wood | Campbell Roy | Vauxhall Astra |
| 1988 | Colin McRae Colin McRae Colin Steele McRae, MBE was a Scottish rally driver born in Lanark.The son of five-time British Rally Champion Jimmy McRae and brother of rally driver Alister McRae, Colin McRae was the 1991 and 1992 British Rally Champion and, in 1995, became the first British person and the youngest to win the... |
Derek Ringer Derek Ringer Derek Ringer is a Scottish rally co-driver. He is most closely associated with Colin McRae, with whom he won the 1995 World Rally Championship.... |
Vauxhall Nova, Nissan 240RS, Peugeot 205 RWD, Ford Sierra Cosworth |
| 1987 | Murray Grierson Murray Grierson Murray Grierson, is a Scottish rally driver from Dalbeattie.Born in Balmaclellan in 1948, Murray began rallying a Mini in the early 1970s. He was a stalwart of the Scottish Rally Championship, winning it outright in 1987, using an Opel Kadett 400 and again in 1993, using an MG Metro 6R4... |
Roger Anderson | Opel Kadett 400 |
| 1986 | Ken Wood | Peter Brown | MG Metro 6R4 |
| 1985 | George Marshall | Roger Anderson | Nissan 240RS |
| 1984 | Ken Wood | Peter Brown | Rover Vitesse SD1 |
| 1983 | Jimmy Fleming | Rodger MacFarland | Toyota Starlet |
| 1982 | Ken Wood | Peter Brown | Triumph TR7 Triumph TR7 The Triumph TR7 is a sports car manufactured from September 1974 to October 1981 by the Triumph Motor Company in the United Kingdom. It was initially produced at the Speke, Liverpool factory, moving to Canley, Coventry in 1978 and then finally to the Rover plant in Solihull in 1980... V8 |
| 1981 | Donald Heggie | Ian Mungall | Ford Escort |
| 1980 | Drew Gallacher | John Eyres | Vauxhall Chevette Vauxhall Chevette The Chevette was a supermini model of car manufactured by Vauxhall in the UK from 1975 to 1984. It was Vauxhall's version of the family of small "T-Cars" from Vauxhall's parent General Motors ; the family included the Opel Kadett in Germany, the Isuzu Gemini in Japan, the Holden Gemini in... |
| 1979 | Drew Gallacher | David McHarg | Ford Escort |
| 1978 | Drew Gallacher | David McHarg | Ford Escort |
| 1977 | Charles Samson | Alec Samson | Ford Escort |
| 1976 | Andrew Cowan Andrew Cowan Andrew Cowan is a Scottish former rally driver, and the founder and senior director of Mitsubishi Ralliart until his retirement on 30 November 2005.-Early years:... |
Colt Lancer | |
| 1975 | Charles Samson | Alec Samson | Ford Escort |
| 1974 | Arthur Jasper | Bill Crabb | Ford Escort |
| 1973 | Drew Gallacher | Ian Muir | Ford Escort RS1600 |
| 1972 | James Rae | Michael Malcolm | Ford Escort RS1600 |
| 1971 | Bob Watson | ||
| 1970 | James Rae | Michael Malcolm | Ford Escort 1300 GT |
| 1969 | Donald Heggie | George Deans | Escort Twin Cam |
| 1968 | Mike Hibbert | Ford Escort | |