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.SRC Homepage Points are awarded to the top placed drivers and the driver scoring the highest number of points over the season is declared Champion
David Bogie begins the year as defending champion after winning five out of the eight events in 2012.
For season 2013, the championship will be sponsored by ARR Craib Transport Ltd, an Aberdeen based road haulage and logistics company. This is a one-year deal announced in December 2012.
The 2013 season begins in the snow-covered forest tracks around Inverness on 16 February, with the season finale taking place around Perth on 5 October.
Following the Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally in October, David Bogie and his regular co-driver Kevin Rae were declared 2013 Scottish rally champions. This represents a record breaking fifth title in a row for the pair. The award ceremony took place on 30 November 2013 at the Marriott Hotel in Glasgow.
Thistle Snowman Rally The opening event of the season, the Thistle Snowman Rally was abandoned due to an accident involving a competing car, which left the road and killed a 50-year-old spectator.
On 12 March 2013, series organisers announced that the Galloway Hills Rally – a reserve event when the championship calendar was first announced – would be included as the championship finale.
2013 Calendar For season 2013 there are to be 8 events held on a variety of surfaces.
Round Dates Event Rally HQ Surface Website – 16 Feb Arnold Clark Thistle Snowman Rally Inverness Gravel / Snow (website) 1 23 Mar Brick & Steel Border Counties Rally Jedburgh Gravel (website) 2 20 Apr Coltel Granite City Rally Aberdeen Gravel (website) 3 2 Jun Jim Clark Reivers Rally Kelso Asphalt (website) 4 29 Jun RSAC Scottish Rally Dumfries Gravel (website) 5 3 Aug Speyside Stages Elgin Gravel (website) 6 7 Sept Merrick Stages Wigtown Gravel (website) 7 5 Oct Colin McRae Forest Stages Aberfeldy Gravel (website) 8 27 Oct Galloway Hills Rally Castle Douglas Gravel (website)
2013 results
Round Rally name Podium finishers Placing Driver / Co-Driver Car Time –Arnold Clark Thistle Snowman Rally(16 Feb)1 Rally abandoned23 1Brick & Steel Border Counties Rally (23 Mar)1 Quintin Milne / Martin Forrest Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 38:272 Barry Groundwater / Neil Shanks Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX +1:073 Stephen Petch / Michael Wilkinson* Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX +1:16 2Coltel Granite City Rally (20 Apr)1 David Bogie / Kevin RaeFord Focus WRC 42:252 Chris Collie / Lisa Watson Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI +1:243 Mike Faulkner / Peter Foy Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX +1:25 3 Jim Clark Reivers Rally(2 Jun)1 David Bogie / Kevin Rae Ford Focus WRC 48:042 Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton Ford Focus WRC +0:10.43 Barry Groundwater / Neil Shanks Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX +2:03.9 4 RSAC Scottish Rally(29 Jun)1 Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton Ford Focus WRC 35:44.62 David Bogie / Kevin Rae Ford Focus WRC +0:19.53 Quintin Milne / Martin Forrest Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX +1:10.8 5 Speyside Stages (3 Aug)1 David Bogie / Kevin Rae Ford Focus WRC 42:252 Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton Ford Focus WRC +0:173 Quintin Milne / Martin Forrest Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX +1:44 6 Merrick Stages (Sept 7)1 Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton Ford Focus WRC 42:222 David Bogie / Kevin Rae Ford Focus WRC +0:443 Quintin Milne / Martin Forrest Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX +1:24 7 Colin McRae Forest Stages (5 Oct)1 David Bogie / Kevin Rae Ford Focus WRC 43:452 Mike Faulkner / Peter Foy Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX +2:173 Dave Weston / Dave Robson Ford Focus WRC +2:39 8 Galloway Hills Rally (27 Oct)1 Jock Armstrong / John Richardson Subaru Impreza 47:202 Mike Faulkner / Peter Foy Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX +1:253 Shaun Sinclair / Chris Hamill Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX +2:10 * Not registered for SRC points.
Drivers' championship standings (Top 10)
Pos Driver Car TSR BCR GCR JCR SCO GSS MFS CMFS GHR Points 1 David Bogie Ford Focus WRC – 3* 1 1 2 1 2 1 Ret* 176 2 Quintin Milne Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX – 1 4 6 3 3 3 Ret* DNS* 161 3 Mike Faulkner Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX – 6 3 Ret* 7 8* 5 2 2 159 4 Barry Groundwater Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX – 2 5 3 5 10* Ret* 6 4 158 5 Donnie MacDonald Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX – 5 6 8 15* 7 12* 4 5 150 6 Euan Thorburn Ford Focus WRC – 11 Ret 2 1 2 1 Ret* DNS* 136 7 Dougal Brown Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX – 9 12* 17 12 Ret* 10 11 10 124 8 Chris Collie Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IV – 8 2 16 9 27 11 Ret* Ret* 122 9 John McClory Subaru Impreza – 7 Ret* 18 17 DNS* 13 12 9 118 10 Alistair Inglis Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution V – Ret 8 4 13 DNS* 7 7 Ret* 116 Pos Driver Car TSR BCR GCR JCR SCO GSS MFS CMFS GHR Points
Points are awarded to the highest placed registered driver on each event as follows: 30, 28, 27, 26, and so on down to 1 point. At the end of the Championship, competitors will nominate their best 6 scores out of the 8 events as their final overall Championship score.
References
External links
RSAC Scottish Rally Homepage