If you’re not going to Le Mans this
weekend, but are in urgent need of a fume fix there’s plenty of domestic choice this weekend. Apart from the Scottish Tarmac Championship Rally at Crail airfield in north east Fife, there is the two-day Hillclimb
at Doune this weekend. It’s not a rally, but trees line some parts of the track
so they will soothe the withdrawal symptoms somewhat ahead of the Scottish
Rally later this month at Dumfries.
This will be round 7 of the British
Hillclimb Championship so all the heavyweights will be up from the south to do
battle with what’s known as ‘the King of Hills.’ If you’ve never been, it’s
worth a look, and a listen, and it’s just a couple of miles west of Doune, near
Stirling.
If you want to make a weekend of
it, Knockhill Circuit near Dunfermline will be hosting the Scottish Motor Show
this weekend as well. It’s 9 years since the Show was last held at the SECC in
Glasgow and it’s just a pity that the SMTA couldn’t sustain the show at the
covered venue.
On the other hand Knockhill has
made a decent stab at accommodating the event and although there is no roof,
there is a track alongside, and in some ways this has revived what was
previously a very static event.
Amongst the manufacturers officially
represented at the show will be Seat, Ford, Abarth, Land Rover, Honda, Jeep, and
Great Wall while Peugeot has chosen
Scotland to debut its brand new 208. A number of dealers will have their own displays of
Mercedes, Morgan, Ginetta, Alfa, Fiat, Smart, Kia, Subaru, Infiniti and
Ssangyong vehicles.
On-track action will include a ‘moving
motor show’ of exotica such as McLaren, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati,
Bentley, Porsche and Radical.
So if the thought of screaming
weans and stacked shelves in Tesco is too much to bear, at least there are some
options for an escape this weekend.
The Scottish Motor Show runs from
9.15 am until 5 pm both Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th. Family tickets are £38 (2
adults and 2 concessions), Adult tickets £15, concessions £8 and under 12's
free of charge – where’s my lollipop and mittens?
Fingers crossed for better weather.
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