The Scottish Rally Championship was a rallying series run throughout Scotland over the course of a year, that comprised seven gravel rallies and one tarmac event.SRC Homepage Points were awarded to the top placed drivers and the driver scoring the highest number of points over the season was declared Champion of the series. For the second season in a row the championship was sponsored by ARR Craib Transport Ltd, an Aberdeen based road haulage and logistics company. This was a one-year deal announced in December 2013.
The 2014 season began in the snow-covered forest tracks around Inverness on 22 February, with the season finale taking place around Castle Douglas on 26 October. David Bogie began the year as defending champion after winning four out of the eight events in 2013.
Following the Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally in October, Euan Thorburn and Paul Beaton were declared 2014 Scottish rally champions. In doing so, Thorburn ended the record streak of five consecutive titles for Bogie. Thorburn won the title by five points ahead of Bogie, having won four rallies and finished as runner-up in two others, to Bogie. He was also third in the Border Counties Rally but scored second place points – as Steve Petch was not registered to score SRC points – for the event. Jock Armstrong finished the season in third place, five points in arrears of Bogie, having won the final event of the season, the Galloway Hills Rally.
Jim Clark Reivers Rally The fourth round of the season, the Jim Clark Reivers Rally was cancelled due to an accident during the preceding day's competition, the Jim Clark Rally, a round of the British Rally Championship. The incident involved a competing car, which left the road, resulting in the death of three spectators.
On 15 July 2014, the 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.
2014 calendar For season 2014 there were eight events held on a variety of surfaces.
Round Dates Event Rally HQ Surface Website 1 22 Feb Arnold Clark Thistle Snowman Rally Inverness Gravel / Snow (website) 2 22 Mar Brick & Steel Border Counties Rally Jedburgh Gravel (website) 3 26 Apr Granite City Rally Aberdeen Gravel (website) – 1 Jun Jim Clark Reivers Rally Kelso Asphalt (website) 4 28 Jun RSAC Scottish Rally Dumfries Gravel (website) 5 2 Aug Speyside Stages Elgin Gravel (website) 6 6 Sept Merrick Stages Wigtown Gravel (website) 7 4 Oct Colin McRae Forest Stages Aberfeldy Gravel (website) 8 26 Oct Galloway Hills Rally Castle Douglas Gravel (website)
2014 events podium
Round Rally name Podium finishers Placing Driver / Co-Driver Car Time /Diff leader 1Arnold Clark Thistle Snowman Rally(22 Feb)1 Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton Ford Focus WRC 44:292 Quintin Milne / Martin Forrest Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution +0:343 Mike Faulkner / Peter Foy Mitsubishi Lancer EVO 9 +0:37 2Brick & Steel Border Counties Rally (22 Mar)1 David Bogie / Kevin RaeFord Focus WRC 43:232 Stephen Petch / Michael Wilkinson Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX +0:473 Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton Ford Focus WRC +0:51 3Granite City Rally (26 Apr)1 Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton Ford Focus WRC 44:022 Jock Armstrong / Paula Swinscoe Subaru Impreza +0:373 Mike Faulkner / Peter Foy Mitsubishi Lancer EVO 9 +1:42 – Jim Clark Reivers Rally(1 Jun)1 Rally cancelled23 4 RSAC Scottish Rally(28 Jun)1 David Bogie / Kevin Rae Ford Fiesta R5 41:33.82 Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton Ford Focus WRC +0:03.53 Jock Armstrong / Paula Swinscoe Subaru Impreza +2:12.6 5 Speyside Stages (2 Aug)1 David Bogie / Kevin Rae Ford Fiesta R5 41:212 Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton Ford Focus WRC +0:133 Jock Armstrong / Paula Swinscoe Subaru Impreza +1:45 6 Merrick Stages (Sept 6)1 Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton Ford Focus WRC 40:382 Mike Faulkner / Peter Foy Mitsubishi Lancer EVO 9 +0:353 David Bogie / Kevin Rae Ford Fiesta R5 +0:37 7 Colin McRae Forest Stages (4 Oct)1 Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton Ford Focus WRC 43:512 Mike Faulkner / Peter Foy Mitsubishi Lancer EVO 9 +2:013 Jock Armstrong / Paula Swinscoe Subaru Impreza +2:36 8 Galloway Hills Rally (26 Oct)1 Jock Armstrong / Paula Swinscoe Subaru Impreza 46:432 David Bogie / Kevin Rae Ford Fiesta R5 +0:383 Desi Henry / Damien Duffy Mitsubishi Lancer EVO 9 +1:37 Notes
Drivers' championship standings (Top 10)
Pos Driver Car TSR BCR GCR JCR SCO GSS MFS CMFS GHR Points 1 Euan Thorburn Ford Focus WRC 1 2 1 – 2 2* 1 1 DNS 176 2 David Bogie Ford Focus WRC/Ford Fiesta R5+ 4 1 Ret – 1 1 3 Ret 2 171 3 Jock Armstrong Subaru Impreza Ret 3 2 – 3 3 4* 3 1 166 4 Mike Faulkner Mitsubishi EVO IX 3 Ret 3 – 4 4 2 2 5* 162 5 Barry Groundwater Mitsubishi EVO IX 5 6 7 – 5 6 DNS 4 DNS 147 6 Dougal Brown Mitsubishi EVO IX 6 10* 15* – 7 8 5 5 3 146 7 Dale Robertson Mitsubishi EVO IX 16* 14 12 – DNS 11 6 7 5 125 8 Mark McCulloch Subaru Impreza 9 9 6 – Ret 10 Ret 14 8 124 9 Fraser Wilson Mitsubishi EVO IX 11 11 10 – 28* 17 5 Ret 4 118 10 Bruce McCombie Mitsubishi EVO 7 8 8 – Ret 5 Ret 9 DNS 113 Pos Driver Car TSR BCR GCR JCR SCO GSS MFS CMFS GHR Points Points were awarded to the highest placed registered drivers on each event as follows: 30, 28, 27, 26, and so on down to 1 point. At the end of the Championship, competitors nominated their best 6 scores out of the 8 events as their final overall Championship score.
References
External links
RSAC Scottish Rally Homepage